Sabyasachi Ruj

Backend Engineer. Formerly: @Flipkart Search, @NewtonMailApp, and Webyog.

[Sabyasachi Ruj @sabya]

Rust's Memory Management: Motivation Behind the Design

What makes Rust unique is its approach to memory management for dynamically allocated values (the heap).

It takes time to get used to this way of thinking before one can write programs in Rust. 🧵

[Sabyasachi Ruj @sabya]

5.6 Sol is really fast! Also generates working code in fewer user back and forth.

[Sabyasachi Ruj @sabya]

Friends call me Sabya.

Android says Satya. 🪟🪟

iOS says Santa. 🎅

Clearly, my name has cross-platform compatibility issues.

[Sabyasachi Ruj @sabya]

Love this idea
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[Distributed Bytes @DistribSystems]

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable."
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[Sabyasachi Ruj @sabya]

Raycast on macOS is exceptional, combining delight and utility. It's become a staple in my frequent usage. @raycastapp 🚀

[Sabyasachi Ruj @sabya]

Wow. Never thought this way.

https://t.co/OZcKeB2Z8K

[DHH @dhh]

“If there’s anything I see juniors often miss, it’s this. Careful, repeated, even obsessive, study of their own work. For programmers that means poring over the pull request until it’s as aesthetically pleasing as it is functionally correct.” https://t.co/EaiolBziIM

[Sabyasachi Ruj @sabya]

Just finished reading: https://t.co/dxNMpb7TMY

A very practical and concise set of "best practices" for building software.

[Sabyasachi Ruj @sabya]

https://t.co/oQcHgS6zKw
"In this article I’ll be using Sit. as an excuse to talk about some wider ideas (motivation, mental health, iterative design processes)."

A great read.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

100% correct on this CAPTCHA

(Usual caveats about potential training data applies)

[Sabyasachi Ruj @sabya]

@sudarshanpbhat 😱

[Tuomas Artman @artman]

When we started work on @linear, we felt real-time sync was a core functionality we had to invest in from the get-go. It turns out sync was important, but not for the reasons we thought. Read on.

[Sabyasachi Ruj @sabya]

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[Sabyasachi Ruj @sabya]

I'm asking those who love the outdoors to post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description. The goal is to regain peace and harmony without negativity. Please copy the text, put a picture on your page, and let's look at these beautiful pictures.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

I'm asking those who love the outdoors to post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description. The goal is to regain peace and harmony without negativity. Please copy the text, put a picture on your page, and let's look at these beautiful pictures.

[Eric Snow @ericsnowcrntly]

PEP 684 has been accepted!!! Expect to see a per-interpreter GIL in Python 3.12. I'm so excited! This has been many years in the making. Thanks to the many people that have helped!

Come to my PyCon US talk 2 weeks from today to learn more.

https://t.co/AvDpXhoZHt

[Sabyasachi Ruj @sabya]

Happiness is seeing this after a huge code reorg.

[Richard Bishop @bitsandhops]

Locking is often used in places it isn't required. Fly knows this and is moving away from it. "How to do distributed locking" by @martinkl is the best writing on the subject that I know about. https://t.co/bkxs8Kusm2

[Sabyasachi Ruj @sabya]

One of the best podcasting apps you know is built by a single person https://t.co/ea1kOFg6MD via @Verge