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Will Woods
@wizard.zone
Software Engineer, former Red Hatter. This is where I holler into the void about packaging systems & Rust & software supply-chain security &c.

Shitposting: @willrad.bsky.social
GitHub: https://github.com/wgwoods

The mustard (still) indicates progress 🌭
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Trying to understand this, if one of my students responds to my "How do we handle the reflections on trusting trust scenario" with "God will fix my compiler" and I give them bad marks, am I the bad guy
December 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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We really don't know what software we're running any more. Nor what hardware, to be honest.
New blog post: "Why computational reproducibility matters"

blog.khinsen.net/posts/2025/0...

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Konrad Hinsen's blog
blog.khinsen.net
June 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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May 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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That’s the beauty of open source,

there’s always someone out there, ready and willing to contribute to your project,

who is wrong.
May 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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so which conclave are they running, SGX or TrustZone?
May 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Writing minimal reproducers for bugs is Bizarro Coding

ME WRITE CODE! OH NO CODE AM NOT BREAK? ME FIX CODE SO IT WORK WRONG!
March 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
ya boy's first attempt at a Real Multi-threaded Rust Program turns out to have a deadlock that *only* manifests on x86_64! Ha ha ha hoo boy
March 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
i bet it feels really good to overflow if you're a buffer. they just can't get enough of it
March 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Think I just found a small bug in (unstable) Rust stdlib, yay, fun. Let's see if I can a) confirm it and b) fix it!
March 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Periodic reminder: (()) is not a palindrome, but ())( is
February 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM