Nathan Froyd

I write code to help other people write code. I know just enough to be dangerous. Currently @stripe, formerly @mozilla.

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

Bodyweight snatch PR this morning! (92kg/202# @ 91.8kg) Oh, and a 106kg (233#) clean and jerk PR, along with 2x 110kg (242#) clean PR; botched the jerk both times.

But, let's focus on the important things: BODYWEIGHT SNATCH!

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

TFW during code review you realize you can recommend using std::rotate.

[Stripe @stripe]

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[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

I spent all of 2023 working on the translation and validation efforts detailed here. Very cool to see a project like this getting external recognition! https://t.co/0vVg4TB6ch

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

@phenlix Yes.

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

`rg --files` is surprisingly useful.

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

Four years @stripe today/yesterday!

[Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT]

The charge of the Rohirrim is great cinema but I will never understand Peter Jackson's decision not to commit this part of the scene to film.

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

Hitting the trifecta of threads, locks, and fork(2) with my first Ruby PR (might not be its final form, we'll see). Three guesses as to the shape of bug the PR fixes and the first two don't count.

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

@asymmetricinfo One about bridges and a lot of other things besides: https://t.co/rpgD9a9n3D

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

Me, yesterday: "run a web server inside my build system" was not on my bingo card of things to do for a version upgrade

(gotta love critical open source software whose binary distributions depend on the whims of volunteers)

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

I really thought I might have left problems like this behind: https://t.co/zaznd7I0CK

(I fixed the same problem a better way in the next pull if you have comments on the approach.)

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

Today in "things I now know about C++": virtual function calls in destructors and (dynamic!) transitive callees don't consider overrides in subclasses for dispatch.

Makes sense after thinking about it for too long, but boy, what a neat footgun.

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

Environment variables. It's always environment variables.

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

OH: "I was going through some code I just wrote, adding comments before sending it out for a PR, and copilot suggested:

// TODO: This is a hack and we should do it in a more idiomatic way.

...it was not meant to be a hack"

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

Today in algorithms: teammate used Cooper/Harvey/Kennedy's dominator algorithm to make a dashboard usable. They had tried Lengauer-Tarjan initially, and it make things unworkable.

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

@alexdanilo99 @sahv @aaronnstuff @Shpigford @maybe @rails @Shopify Stripe has never used Rails.

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

From @dsquareddigest 's newsletter this morning: there are no new issues [in the ethics of AI] which were not already important questions of “business ethics” or indeed “political philosophy”, because opaque and complicated decision making systems aren’t new.

100% yes.

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

Three. years. @stripe

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

Dynamic language implementations: "the new {JIT,GC} will fix all the performance problems"

(with apologies to @nnethercote )

[Nathan Froyd @froydnj]

OH: "In a departure from traditional academic systems research practise, we have at first focused our attention on correctness, not raw performance."