max’s place

with apologies to Rust maintainers it is a well-known fact that Rust standard library uses specialization internally. over the years, there were various attempts to observe this behaviour in user code and thus achieve ersatz specialization on stable. for…

let’s start with some context: I’m currently writing unflake, which is essentialy a userspace reimplementation of nix flakes. to do that, I need some understanding of what flakes are: I want my implementation to be compatible with the upstream one. unfort…

this is a horror story about Wayland, scaling and debugging multi-layered abstractions.

this has been bothering me for a while now, so I want to write down my thoughts so I can get it out of my head and move on. we’re gonna talk about how Deno approaches security, specifically with its permissions system, and why I think this approach is fun…

there’s an annoyance that comes up regularly when dealing with error paths: returning an error (or raising an exception) means you lose all the context you had stored in local variables. this prevents you from printing a nice error message, emitting useful

there is one useful trick in rust that’s usually called “autoref specialization”. it allows to select a method implementation based on traits some type implements. if you’re not familiar with the technique itself, dtolnay described it nicely here. this po…