Alvaro García

Mis intereses: tecnología, software libre, sistemas operativos, criptomonedas, música, manga, anime y mucho más.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

Fixing Windows, one kilobyte at a time.

Back in the NT days, Notepad was lean, fast, and stayed in its lane. Today? It wants an account, cloud sync, and Copilot’s opinion.

So I did what any retired OS engineer would do: rebuilt it from scratch.
2,686 bytes. Full features. Zero bloat. Pure Win32.
All in assembly language.

No telemetry. No nonsense. Just the Notepad you remember — only smaller than the thumbnail image!

Would love to hear what you think — and what other “impossible” tiny apps we should tackle next.

[ReactOS @reactos]

Yet another update from @sidihmeed: He got SMP running on his experimental #ReactOS ARM64 branch!!!

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

One day 35 years ago, I was parked outside my house with my teenage girlfriend (now my wife) looking at some brick pillars chained together as a fence.

I said aloud that I wondered what was inside them. Were they hollow? Solid brick? Just sand or gravel backfill? How were they built?

She wasn’t just uninterested. She was confused and a little annoyed - angry, even. What possible benefit could knowing that have? Why would I waste time on it?

I couldn’t articulate any practical reason. I just needed to know. It felt wrong not to know. To be honest, I was a little hurt and surprised that SHE didn't want to know.

In that very moment, we BOTH realized how differently our brains worked. We also realized we were going to be okay. We were complementary, not conflicting. We’ve never lamented the differences since.

As a kid, I was driven to take everything apart to see what was inside. Once, my parents left for banking, and my dad came back ten minutes later for a forgotten checkbook. He found me on the kitchen floor surrounded by every part of our family stove. It had a cool "digital" clock, and I wanted to know how it worked.

He just shook his head and left. By the time they returned I had it all back together and working. We never spoke of it again before his death.

Some kids take things apart for fun. Autistic kids often have an intense need to know what’s inside.

[Adapted from the book "Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire"]

[Alvaro García @rainbyte_]

@kevinswiber @kdy1dev The "trustmebro" keyword, haha

[Inosuke @Inosukeei_coder]

> Meet Graydon hoare founder of Rust programming language.

Around 2006, he was frustrated after a Firefox crash caused by memory issues.

Thought: “Why are we still writing unsafe systems code in 2006?”

Started Rust as a personal experiment not backed by any company.

> Early struggles

Early days had no funding, no community, and slow unstable development.

Backed later by Mozilla, but still experimental and risky.

Faced major criticism for its complex ownership & borrow checker system.

> After lots of struggle finally

Rust 1.0 (2015) brought stability and trust for production use.

Introduced memory safety without garbage collection.

Built strong dev ecosystem with Cargo + crates.

Became “Most Loved Language” multiple times via Stack Overflow.

> Currently

Adopted by tech giants like
→ Microsoft, Google, Amazon.

Still challenged by steep learning curve & slower compile times.

> Future insights

replace C/C++ in system-level programming.

Expanding into OS dev, embedded systems, AI infra & secure software.

The absolute goat language.

[vLLM @vllm_project]

vLLM v0.19.0 is here! 448 commits from 197 contributors (54 new). 🎉

Highlights: Gemma 4 support (transformers>=5.5.0 required), zero-bubble async scheduling + spec decode, Model Runner V2 maturation, ViT full CUDA graphs, general CPU KV cache offloading, NVIDIA B300/GB300 support.

Thread 👇

[rishu.rs🦀 @0xrishuraj]

Async in Rust is like an onion 🧅
To run async code → you need .await
To make .await work → you need a runtime (Tokio)
To understand the runtime → you need to implement the Future trait
Future trait = uses a poll() method
poll() takes a Context with a Waker…💀

[Alvaro García @rainbyte_]

@qasimstatic @ItsRoboki It is insane that we need to start filtering out content this way. The phrases by themselves are not bad, and existed before the robots, but it ended up this way :(

[Alvaro García @rainbyte_]

@icelainL @ItsRoboki this kind of thing should be part of iced repo, and also statically checked if possible

[Enséñame de Ciencia @EnsedeCiencia]

A la izquierda, el lobo gris. A la derecha, la hiena manchada. Dos depredadores… dos armas letales creadas por la naturaleza. 🤯

💥 El lobo puede desgarrar carne y triturar huesos medianos.
💥 La hiena… los pulveriza como si fueran galletas.

Sus molares son auténticos martillos biológicos, capaces de romper fémures de búfalo. Esto es posible gracias a una de las mordidas más potentes del planeta, reforzada por un cráneo y músculos maseteros de acero. 💪🦷

Y aunque muchos las confunden con perros salvajes… las hienas están más emparentadas con los felinos que con los caninos. Pertenecen al suborden Feliformia… pero tienen su propio linaje: Hyaenidae. 🐆

🌍 Dos depredadores, dos historias evolutivas… y una sola lección: la naturaleza no deja nada al azar. 🐾

[Linux Inside: The Ideal Blog for Sysadmins & Geeks @tecmint]

3.9 billion people carry Linux in their pocket every day.

The irony? Most don’t even know it.

If you use #Android, you’re a #Linux user.

RT to spread awareness.

Follow @tecmint for more facts like this.

[Alvaro García @rainbyte_]

I've reactivated my blog! After a period of inactivity, I'm back with Rust-focused content :)

It explains why I replaced the `fronma` library with my own tiny frontmatter parsing.

See here: https://t.co/z2K07uOabn

Rust has been incredibly productive for this kind of project!

[Dhaval (Investment Books) @InvestmentBook1]

💯

[Brodie Robertson @BrodieOnLinux]

It's always bugged me that Linus Torvalds is the only one who gets credit for Git, he certainly made it, but he handed the project off to Junio Hamano around 3 months after it started even before the 1.0 release. Basically no one knows he's been the maintainer the last 20+ years

[RetroAnimeLover @josephpeter1997]

Kimagure Orange Road - Studio Pierrot - 1987/1988

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists have discovered that ants, after collecting grains and seeds which they need to store for the winter, actually break them into halves before storing in their nests. This is because by breaking the seeds into half, it stops them from germinating despite the most perfect conditions.

But here comes the even more interesting part.

Scientists were stunned when they discovered that coriander seeds stored in the ant nest were always broken down into 4 pieces instead of 2 pieces.

After some lab research, scientists discovered that a coriander seed is the only seed that can germinate even after being divided into two, but can not germinate after it’s divided into four parts.

[Policía Federal Argentina @PFAOficial]

Si vas a utilizar billete de dólar estadounidense, asegúrate de que sean auténticos.

Desde la Policía Federal Argentina te damos consejos para que en tres simples pasos puedas verificar que no sea apócrifo: tocá, mirá y girá.

[90’s anime @90sPiictures]

A look into the Golden age of anime we may never get back

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Show up:

[Javier Sánchez @javisanchezglez]

Mi deseo para 2026 es que todo el mundo aplicase esto