Ben Lovy

I'm Ben! I like programming in Rust, and also sometimes programming in not-Rust. I work at building open-source developer tools.

[Mara @m_ou_se]

"Nobody uses Rust in production", he emailed (with Thunderbird) from his laptop (running Windows) to a mailing list (on AWS, behind Cloudflare), which I then read (in Firefox) on my phone (running Android) after clicking a link (in Discord) to the list archive (served by Fastly).

[Talia Ringer 🕊🪬 @TaliaRinger]

I like sitting next to my boyfriend while he debugs C++ code and telling him he wouldn't have those bugs if we had written the code in Rust or using a dependently typed language

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“Why do you want to take a picture of that store”

[Ben Lovy @ben_deciduously]

I think the biggest realization I've had moving from solo hobby coding to working with a team of developers is that nobody else knows how to pronounce any of these words either.

[Ben Lovy @ben_deciduously]

Wake up
Pet the cat and throw a little toy up
Stand there on the stairs while she just stares up
Why'd you beg for me to throw your toy there?
I won't throw again because it's not fair.

You wanted to
Pet the cat and throw a little toy up
You wanted to...

[Ben Lovy @ben_deciduously]

@zombodb Sure, it was my fault, but this whole charade should have been nipped in the bud at compile time...

[Ben Lovy @ben_deciduously]

The code's complete. Your runtime's primed to go.
Your structures and abstractions feel refined.
The application boots and data flows...
"Cannot read property of undefined."

[Sigma @sigma_da_enigma]

At one point, Red Hat Linux had a "Redneck" language option for its installer. I'll just leave these images here:

[Ben Lovy @ben_deciduously]

@chrsnjk @ekuber Well, mutably, maybe.

[Ben Lovy @ben_deciduously]

It's "x86_64" everywhere else - why on earth is the dynamic linker named "https://t.co/vyWTrZerVO.2"?!

[Ben Lovy @ben_deciduously]

The cat makes a pretty solid diff utility for rooms. If you move any object slightly, or put something new in the room, she'll be there to thoroughly inspect the change within minutes.

[Ben Lovy @ben_deciduously]

@polymonster So glad it was helpful - definitely lost a bit too much time myself discovering that detail!

[Ben Lovy @ben_deciduously]

Me, starting a new project README

[Ben Lovy @ben_deciduously]

Great moments in pet parenthood - today the kitty rounded up several toys around the room and placed them neatly back in her toy bin. I could get used to that.

[The 5422m4n 🦀 @5422m4n]

TIL: how the `assert!` macro in #rustlang can whisper to the compiler to optimise away bounds checks in the final assembly code

here an example:

[Isabella Tromba @isabellatromba]

@ThisWeekInRust @tangramdotdev is hiring Rust programmers who love developer tools, are interested in machine learning and want to program in Rust!

[Ben Lovy @ben_deciduously]

@SteveHarville No, there are cheaper options, but I am impressed with the components they offer, the build quality is quite high, and having each component designed to be swappable as new hardware generations are released should extend the lifetime of this laptop beyond other similar products.

[Ben Lovy @ben_deciduously]

Assembling my #Framework laptop could not have been smoother. Go get you one at https://t.co/037WVq3IJq.

[Ben Lovy @ben_deciduously]

Eddie Izzard said it best: "what do you mean, 'cannot access printer'? I can access printer! It's right here!"