Russ Cox

Go Hacker. Mistake maker. (he/him)

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

2024 resolution to stop posting here still in effect but updating forwarding address.

Now at https://t.co/fApL3gEZIG

I'd been using russcox, but it looks like after the rename bluesky let someone else take it!

[Communications of the ACM @CACMmag]

"Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply-Chain Security," by @_rsc (@Google), says industry's longtime goal of #software #reuse is now very real. https://t.co/cjdf0QGWJu

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

Breaking my Twitter silence because @junyer has passed away, and this is the site where he was most active. I know we had at least a few followers in common. There is a public memorial page of sorts at https://t.co/rBLd0C5Vdq.

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

2024 resolution is to stop posting here.
Now at https://t.co/PYkY47bo0R.
Perhaps also https://t.co/HqIvNRkGLS.

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

My GopherCon 2023 talk (re-recorded): “Go Changes” #golang
https://t.co/oKLuqvHZYY

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

My (re-recorded) GopherCon Australia 2023 talk: “Go Testing By Example” #golang
https://t.co/ijU3SA43UR

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

@ZacharyEndrulat @goinggodotnet It's hard to tell exactly what happened from the description, but stealing cookies should not be enough by itself. It sounds like maybe his 2FA was TOTP (6-digit codes) and was also phished. Security keys are not phishable and are strongly preferred. https://t.co/6iETTQK2ni

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

My ACM SCORED 2023 talk: “Open Source Supply Chain Security at Google” #scored23
https://t.co/5AvvW7fLcB

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

Video for my talk: https://t.co/jJmPlXX3Qv

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

@MakisMaropoulos @golang @Dr2chase https://t.co/4gzYJU7PLp

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

In replies, @DougMerritt pointed out that a better link is to https://t.co/VuukGc1JLa…, which has all 3 PDFs and apparently running code.

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

Wirth and Gutknecht did this–documented code for a full system–with Project Oberon, published as a hardcover book in 1992 and recently updated as a free PDF: https://t.co/3E1lbmTrgk

Like Knuth’s books, it’s fascinating to flip through and (for me) hard to read cover-to-cover.

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

@dbentley Glad to know I've been using his books right all along! Bill Gates has that quote on the back of TAOCP about send me a resume if you can read the whole thing, but if someone sent me that resume, I'd assume they were lying. :-)

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

What TikTok-to-Twitter bot has been posting tweets with Go package fmt errors in them for the past year+ without any of its users caring?

https://t.co/orsVQqRusw

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

@BRIAN_____ People who want reproducibility independent of C toolchain can disable cgo and use pure Go net. But if a system has custom .so files listed in /etc/nsswitch.conf, net must use cgo to run them. In general we can't predict that, so using cgo is conservative but correct.

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

@BRIAN_____ People who want reproducibility independent of C toolchain can disable cgo and use pure Go net. But if a system has custom .so files listed in /etc/nsswitch.conf, net must use cgo to run them. In general we can't predict that, so using cgo is conservative but correct.

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

@evmar Independent reasonable actions may combine to an unreasonable action. It is completely rational to say the outcome is unacceptable and then decide not to do both.

(Drinking and driving is the obvious example.)

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

https://t.co/nsTHDX0KRk

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

@evmar C compilers do what the authors of those compilers have written them to do. Those authors absolutely have considered these cases and wilfully decided that the compiler behavior is acceptable.