raphlinus.bsky.social
Doing fundamental research in UI and 2D graphics
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This is an excellent example of what @eliothiggins.bsky.social calls "disordered discourse." There are a lot of professional belief-professors in this lie, because it benefits certain people—oligarchs, of whom your employer is one—to pretend it's true. Don't say the emperor is naked, above all else.
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Next big thing in languages is being able to express parallelism well. Probably the closest thing to the language of the future is Mojo, but I'm still "wait and see." Research seed languages (as Cyclone was to Rust) include ISPC, Slang, and Futhark. CUDA (which is C++) is the C++ in this analogy.
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Even if you like C++ and want it to succeed, there are serious problems with that essay. It completely fails to mention or acknowledge the work that Sean Baxter has done on Circle or Safe C++, demonstrating that you need richer types, not just profiles, for safety. I don't see Bjarne's way forward.
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Yeah, he's been inviting me to rejoin the "leadership circle." I sent him a response a few days ago saying I am willing to support people who are actually doing anything (which, for me, right now, is mostly Quaker orgs). I didn't get a response.
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I liked this account a lot better when it posted satire. Chef's kiss though for accurate reporting.
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That's the first thing that came to mind also, but @righto.com has a good essay on problems with the metaphor: www.righto.com/2025/01/its-...
I see this pattern a lot, people adopting things that make sense for an org at Google scale but much less so for most other teams.
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Great, I've added these to github.com/linebender/l...
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I've seen a huge bump in follows just today, after a noticeable rise the last couple of weeks. The new follows look generally tech-adjacent but not super-specific to my interests, so I strongly suspect I'm on a starter pack. I'm also seeing some bots & spam, but it seems like a small percent.
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Yes indeed, it happens to be exactly on the 10 year anniversary of the name being reserved. The old owner, @brendanzab.bsky.social, was kind enough to transfer it.
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I needed a really weak hash for phf (color name strings, see github.com/linebender/c...), and found myself doing a dumb byte-at-a-time version, because when I looked at the rustc output for variable lengths slices, it was bad. Modern simd can do masked reads, but we can't yet have nice things there.
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MPL to dual Apache 2 + MIT. In the longer term, we expect to align roadmaps, to continue the excellent work RazrFalcon has started.
There's also good progress on the other Linebender projects inculding Xilem. 2/2
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I don't have a resource, but I believe @kissane.bsky.social has been looking for similar things.
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I worked on spam and abuse on Orkut a bit, among other things. It had a reputation for pretty bad spam, but working with the Orkut team (mostly based in India) we cleaned it up pretty well. I thought it was a good social network, but Google+ was the shiny new thing, so off to the graveyard.
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It's transphobia. It's all they've got. Aside from racism and misogyny, of course. Probably not enough for them to win an election, even in America.
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We're also really looking forward to @rustnl next month. That will be a great place for people interested in Rust UI to come together. 2/2
#xilem
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Looking forward to meeting you there! I'll be speaking on Rust UI.