Brian Kung

A lot has happened in software engineering since my last post.

I saw a "stop learning to code, vibe coding is here now" post and I had to write a response: While it's true that AI has commoditized the act of stringing characters together into code, it hasn't commoditized software engineering.

Random thing that I got excited about this morning because I wanted to add really nice search to my personal journal: vector embeddings.

The first thing I do when I encounter a strange code base is run the test suite.

I survived David Beazley's weeklong course on the Raft consensus algorithm that powers technologies like Kubernetes, MongoDB, and Neo4j.

Staff Engineer by Will Larson talks about what happens in your career should you decide to progress past Senior Engineer.

I thought I'd jot down some notes about using Rust that wouldn't have made it as their own blog posts: You can't use anonymous functions for control flow The build times Traits, traits, traits, and more traits Keeping up with Rust news You can't use anony…

I realized that one of my favorite Rust features doesn't have a blog post highlighting it [0], so I thought I'd talk a bit about documentation comments and doc tests in Rust.

Actually, that really understates the problem - we feel that living in the USA is a bad deal for families in general, but for now I'll focus specifically on public school and daycare.

Hi!

I cobbled this together from a few comments I'd made on Facebook - please forgive the lack of coherency.

This'll be a short blog post, but Gleam (v0.25.0) is an Erlang OTP language, akin to Elixir (in fact, recently added full compatibility with Elixir packages).

Many people (millennials, at least) have been trained to kiss ass when we're interviewing, to basically "fake it til you make it."

When I graduated from college with a degree in East Asian Languages and Culture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011 (one year late), I had no idea what I was going to do.

I've been looking for a job doing Rust development and one of the places I applied to was Vector, a DataDog acquisition in the observability space.

This might be an idiosyncrasy of mine, but I tend to use hashes a lot in Ruby.

At Hologram, I loved getting to sign into work Slack and share knowledge with fellow software engineers of all experience levels.

So most recently I was employed at Hologram and was therefore too busy to write.

"Are you teaching your kids Chinese?"

🇺🇦 I'm joining the Ruby community in calling for an end to Russia's unjust and illegal war in Ukraine!

Note: anytime you see 🙋‍♂️ RFC_, that's a "Request For Comments" about a topic I didn't understand or take the time to look into.

Note: anytime you see 🙋‍♂️ RFC_, that's a "Request For Comments" about a topic I didn't understand or take the time to look into.

TLDR - the three most upvoted crates that were never recognized as Crate of the Week in This Week in Rust are glutin, rust-cuda, and redshirt.

The CEDICT format is a simple, creative commons-licensed file format for Chinese/English dictionaries.

Yesterday, I eked out a bit of time to contribute to Artichoke in Rust, in no small part due to the maintainer @lopopolo: [!

Pipes are a delightful feature in Elixir that you can use to pass the evaluation of an expression into a function.

Elixir, other than being an alchemical cure-all, does double duty as a programming language that's good for fast, resilient, parallel computing.

Elixir is similar enough to Ruby to be familiar, but different enough to get tripped up by!

My homepage looks so lonely without a post that I thought I'd write something really quickly.