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Gergely Balint
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sw eng writing compilers and whatnot @arm
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November 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
are there… memory safety skeptics?
"Memory Safety for Skeptics," where I argue why memory safety is worthwhile to pursue amid competing priorities!

queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...

#rustlang
Memory Safety for Skeptics - ACM Queue
queue.acm.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
> subscribe to us pol labeler
> look at discover feed
> it’s us pol
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
hot take: nix is great, but NixOS is borderline unusable
men should not be into nix
October 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
time to learn eBPF
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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not really
TIL that Signal runs on AWS. That seems less than ideal.
October 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Recently started using graphite.dev for managing stacked PRs.

The CLI part that helps manage these branches is pretty useful.

But there is the other 95% of the features:
- a new (albeit slightly better) implementation of GitHub's UI
- AI codereview

I guess you can't sell a few git commands...
October 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
very excited about walking up a big rock next week
October 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The good thing about ATorment nexus is that it’s an indepent appview, not just another frontend
Torment nexus on ATProto
September 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
not me realizing at night that my 1200 line BOLT PR might need to handle even more edge cases
September 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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me after cancelling today's hike for weather reasons
7:20 - Coffee I
7:30 - Breakfast
7:40 - Coffee II
10:30 - Pasta
11:00 - Coffee III

the fuck am I supposed to do for the rest of the day
September 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Giving @leaflet.pub a go.
Honest answer to why I shoot film for now.
#filmphotography

bgergely0.leaflet.pub/3lyrysc5j622x
Reflections on shooting film - Gergely's Notes
bgergely0.leaflet.pub
September 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
when something is in nixpkgs: best experience

when something isn’t: here is 5 workarounds you can try 🤠
setting up Tresorit on NixOS was definately painful

but now that it’s up and syncing, life’s wonderful
September 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
setting up Tresorit on NixOS was definately painful

but now that it’s up and syncing, life’s wonderful
September 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
a 5th coffee shop just opened in the 200m radius of my apartment, no way this is real

I feel like the guy in Big Short
September 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Typing "li" into the seach bar extended to linkedin, instead of @lichess.org. I will take this as a warning, and rethink some decisions
September 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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here's a thread about the harmonic series (1/n)
September 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
finally got back the scans from the lab! #filmphotography #grainisgood
August 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
simple statistics hack: I like the result, therefore it's significant
August 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Note to myself: remember to pack winter clothing for summer night trains
August 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
One of the things I’m working on right now is getting LLVM BOLT to emit _correct_ binaries with Pointer Authentication.

While testing the patch, I’ve found that clang-19’s pac codegen has a lot of issues. The good news: BOLT caught and reported them!
August 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Tell me your atproto ideas and I will add them. Will also link out to completed ideas!
August 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM