Jacob

him. tweets are my own.

[Jacob @j4cob]

Love open enrollment time, when I get to sign up for my Teeth Subscription and my Eyes Subscription.

[Jacob @j4cob]

@wcrichton y is saying "I'm the new boss here. Anybody wants to talk to x? They gotta go through _me_."

In the first example, z correctly asks y's permission to talk to x.

In the second, z fails to ask permission. It tries to go around y, and gets shot by the compiler for insolence.

[Jacob @j4cob]

Programming language documentation tools usually include a link to the source code being documented. It's often handy! What would you say is the main purpose(s) of that feature?

[Jacob @j4cob]

Let's Encrypt won the Levchin Prize! This is a very exciting recognition of 10 years of hard work.

https://t.co/5tqrKW2emk

[Jacob @j4cob]

Took a sabbatical this summer, and pretty proud of how it shows up in my GitHub activity page! Breaks are important.

[Jacob @j4cob]

For years, Bulletproof TLS and PKI has been _the_ book to read for, well, TLS and PKI. Now the second edition is out! Go grab a copy. You won't regret it.

https://t.co/D0vO6X9UVj

[Jacob @j4cob]

SFPD is spreading an incredibly obvious hoax.

https://t.co/4M32oYS1Ky

[Jacob @j4cob]

I was curious - how much of my Wordle game is luck? Were my guesses good at each step? So I made a post-game analyzer: https://t.co/U00eztsYt8.

Here's a screenshot analyzing a completely hypothetical game of Wordle (not a spoiler):

[Jacob @j4cob]

Rust trait coherence: You can't create a headcanon that struct Foo and trait Bar from another crate are in a relationship, because you don't own that IP. You're only allowed to ship Foo/Bar if one or the other (or both!) is your OC.

[aaron gable @phasmantistes]

Rust has these things called the Orphan Rules which people find confusing but I have solved this problem for everyone:

The only fanfics allowed in rust are self-inserts.

[Jacob @j4cob]

Fortunado: can we get Amontillado?

Montresor: we have Amontillado at home

Amontillado at home:

[Jacob @j4cob]

I'm excited to join the rustdoc team! I've been working on speed and usability improvements to the JS and HTML. The team has been so awesome and supportive. https://t.co/6EAX5jBOrM

[Jacob @j4cob]

Related: write the email, _then_ fill in the "To:" line.

[Jacob @j4cob]

Houses are basically tools for keeping water out, but we punch lots of holes in them to bring the water inside the house. This demonstrates the futility of perimeter-based security.

[brad @bshoup]

i heard there was a secret cord/you plug it in/and you meet the lord