Alyssa the Kate
@alyssa.codes
Formerly Rust firmware security at the big G 🦀 | opinions are her own | makes code smol *and* sound | probably a parody account | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
http://alyssa.codes
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October 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
oof it doesn't render correctly on mobile
October 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
oof it doesn't render correctly on mobile
Been thinking about this
If a binding can access a value, it owns the value or is borrowing its place. `&'static T` is a borrow of a static place
To exclude static references from borrows makes many statements about types awkward to be fully consistent about, like "&str is a borrowed string slice"
If a binding can access a value, it owns the value or is borrowing its place. `&'static T` is a borrow of a static place
To exclude static references from borrows makes many statements about types awkward to be fully consistent about, like "&str is a borrowed string slice"
October 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Been thinking about this
If a binding can access a value, it owns the value or is borrowing its place. `&'static T` is a borrow of a static place
To exclude static references from borrows makes many statements about types awkward to be fully consistent about, like "&str is a borrowed string slice"
If a binding can access a value, it owns the value or is borrowing its place. `&'static T` is a borrow of a static place
To exclude static references from borrows makes many statements about types awkward to be fully consistent about, like "&str is a borrowed string slice"
On the Apple store, yeah. It's currently #8 in free productivity apps on the main Android store
August 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
On the Apple store, yeah. It's currently #8 in free productivity apps on the main Android store
![From Wikipedia:
Jim Starkey coined the term "blob"[when?] working at Digital Equipment Corporation to refer to opaque data entities. The terminology was adopted for Rdb/VMS. "Blob" is often humorously explained to be an abbreviation for "binary large object". According to Starkey, this backronym arose when Terry McKiever, working in marketing at Apollo Computer felt that the term needed to be an abbreviation. McKiever began using the expansion "Basic Large Object". This was later eclipsed by the retroactive explanation of blobs as "Binary Large Objects". According to Starkey, "Blob don't stand for nothin'." Rejecting the acronym, he explained his motivation behind the coinage, saying, "A blob is the thing that ate Cincinnatti [sic], Cleveland, or whatever," referring to the 1958 science fiction film The Blob.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g6kxr7gbqzmqddvve5v6uwsg/bafkreicgvc6jrha7kmbnavyrqy4ge6tezyz6iwykgnv5anrphogrfh2goi@jpeg)
Maybe also have a lint for deprecated characters?
June 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Maybe also have a lint for deprecated characters?
Right, I do think it's reasonable to add a warn-by-default lint for any noncharacter in a literal, but it shouldn't be part of the validity of a `str`.
June 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Right, I do think it's reasonable to add a warn-by-default lint for any noncharacter in a literal, but it shouldn't be part of the validity of a `str`.
Correct. They went with Unicode Scalar Values, which is everything that can be encoded in UTF-8. There's no reason to exclude BOM? www.unicode.org/versions/Uni...
June 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Correct. They went with Unicode Scalar Values, which is everything that can be encoded in UTF-8. There's no reason to exclude BOM? www.unicode.org/versions/Uni...
the image is originally from an economist article, but I didn't find another source with the overlay text www.economist.com/content-asse...
April 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
the image is originally from an economist article, but I didn't find another source with the overlay text www.economist.com/content-asse...
yeah this should be a clickable link
March 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
yeah this should be a clickable link
It's many publications' 2024 Game of the Year
January 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It's many publications' 2024 Game of the Year
That's some slick rendering! Defer has always been my favorite Go feature, and I'd love to see scope-based versions like this become a first class feature in all systems languages 🌠
My only mild critique is maybe this should say "S" instead of "D's statements"?
My only mild critique is maybe this should say "S" instead of "D's statements"?
December 20, 2024 at 6:14 AM
That's some slick rendering! Defer has always been my favorite Go feature, and I'd love to see scope-based versions like this become a first class feature in all systems languages 🌠
My only mild critique is maybe this should say "S" instead of "D's statements"?
My only mild critique is maybe this should say "S" instead of "D's statements"?