In Pursuit of Laziness

The Set-Up Johnny Hooker: Sometime after 2:00, a guy’s gonna call on that phone there and give you the name of a horse.

This is a post I’ve been meaning to write and publish for years, and only recently got around to doing it.

I’ve added a couple new styling elements to my blog and I make use of them extensively in upcoming posts, I thought I’d talk a bit about them because I expect people will have questions.

This is part 1 of a three-part series on interesting abstractions for zero-copy deserialization I’ve been working on over the last year.

This is part 2 of a three-part series on interesting abstractions for zero-copy deserialization I’ve been working on over the last year.

This is part 3 of a three-part series on interesting abstractions for zero-copy deserialization I’ve been working on over the last year.

I’ve been thinking about garbage collection in Rust for a long time, ever since I started working on Servo’s JS layer.

There’s been some discussion about arenas in Rust recently, and I thought I’d write about them.

This post was originally drafted in August 2018, but I never got around to finishing it.

Election season is starting up again, and as with many other topics I’m seeing a lot of overconfident takes from people in tech wanting to “solve” how voting works with naïve techy solutions.

There’s been a lot of talk about improving Rust’s governance model lately.

I wrote a post for Mozilla Hacks on converting WebGL applications to WebVR, you can read it there

See also: Alex’s version of this blog post I started this blog three years ago, moving from my older blog, hoping to written about programming, math, physics, books, and miscellenia.

We’ve recently been making lots of progress on future plans for clippy and I thought I’d post an update.

Last week I fell down a rather interesting rabbit hole in Rust, which was basically me discovering a series of quirks of the Rust compiler/language, each one leading to the next when I asked “why?”.

So there’s yet another iOS text crash, where just looking at a particular string crashes iOS.

Sum types are pretty cool.

A week ago we put out a call for blog posts for what folks think Rust should do in 2018.

The Rust community lately has been focusing a lot on “async I/O” through the tokio project.

Recently Julia Evans wrote an excellent post about debugging a segfault in Rust.