Andrew Lilley Brinker
@alilleybrinker.com
Memory safety (mostly 🦀), open source software.
Creator @hipcheck.mitre.org, Core Team @omnibor.io, CVE dev.
Writing on alilleybrinker.com, possiblerust.com
Principal Engineer @ MITRE. Opinions are my own.
Creator @hipcheck.mitre.org, Core Team @omnibor.io, CVE dev.
Writing on alilleybrinker.com, possiblerust.com
Principal Engineer @ MITRE. Opinions are my own.
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Andrew Lilley Brinker
@alilleybrinker.com
· Nov 10
Memory Safety for Skeptics - ACM Queue
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"Memory Safety for Skeptics," where I argue why memory safety is worthwhile to pursue amid competing priorities!
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Local Rustacean slowly polarized against procedural macros.
February 11, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Local Rustacean slowly polarized against procedural macros.
Reposted by Andrew Lilley Brinker
Gallup has announced they're stopping daily Presidential polling, and will instead give updates weekly. IMO, this is disappointing but (per the given explanation), likely not politically motivated (as a way to protect the President).
The economics they describe are interesting. Basically, they'd offset the cost of doing the daily Presidential approval polling by attaching it to telephone polling their customers paid them to conduct, but as telephone polling purchases have declined, Gallup's cost for daily telephone polls went up
February 11, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Gallup has announced they're stopping daily Presidential polling, and will instead give updates weekly. IMO, this is disappointing but (per the given explanation), likely not politically motivated (as a way to protect the President).
Relatedly, there's a desire to identify middle management as frequently or categorically useless in knowledge-work companies, while middle management is often essential to the logistics of organizing and executing work.
Incidentally, this has reminded me of when I got blocked on here for arguing with the David Graeber Institute that "Logistics Manager" wasn't a "bullshit job". I hope every one of them is waiting on a vital package from Southern Texas.
All this speculation about the potential horrid things the airspace closure around El Paso could signifiy, and all I can think of is the logistics managers having the *worst* day and week of their lives.
February 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Relatedly, there's a desire to identify middle management as frequently or categorically useless in knowledge-work companies, while middle management is often essential to the logistics of organizing and executing work.
Seems like this (company head announces product that doesn't exist which they have never discussed with anyone before) has happened many times in corporate history, and now I wonder if someone has a list.
The mythical origin story of the VW R32 is that at a VW press event for another car, Ferdinand Piëch told the press that VW was going to make a high-end Golf with their best parts. Apparently, he had not discussed this with anyone else on the VW board and sort of just willed it into existence.
Ooo. Is that the crazy v6 one? I have a soft spot for small cars that really had no logical reason for someone to design it that way.
February 11, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Seems like this (company head announces product that doesn't exist which they have never discussed with anyone before) has happened many times in corporate history, and now I wonder if someone has a list.
The espresso tonic is underrated, it should be at every coffee shop
February 11, 2026 at 5:05 PM
The espresso tonic is underrated, it should be at every coffee shop
Reposted by Andrew Lilley Brinker
jj is super powerful if you need it, but tbh I think the pitch is even stronger for non-power users. In 6 months of regular use I've never needed to consult the Deep Tomes to unfuck a repo, and the only time I ended up remotely off the happy path it was a limitation of the underlying VCS, not jj
February 11, 2026 at 4:38 PM
jj is super powerful if you need it, but tbh I think the pitch is even stronger for non-power users. In 6 months of regular use I've never needed to consult the Deep Tomes to unfuck a repo, and the only time I ended up remotely off the happy path it was a limitation of the underlying VCS, not jj
AI vibe shift in action
February 11, 2026 at 3:41 PM
AI vibe shift in action
Diamondbacks haven't quite reported for Spring Training, and a player is already down with a broken bone in the hand from batting practice. Bad luck
Just made an unprintable sound seeing the Corbin Carroll news
ban hamates
ban hamates
February 11, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Diamondbacks haven't quite reported for Spring Training, and a player is already down with a broken bone in the hand from batting practice. Bad luck
Oh man, filtering out irrelevant info is so important.
I take my wife's grandmother to her medical appointments, and she *absolutely* includes irrelevant info all the time, because she's not a doctor and doesn't know what's relevant to include.
Any doctor or PA she sees knows what doesn't matter.
I take my wife's grandmother to her medical appointments, and she *absolutely* includes irrelevant info all the time, because she's not a doctor and doesn't know what's relevant to include.
Any doctor or PA she sees knows what doesn't matter.
When chatbots are given complete information on medical conditions, they typically spit out correct diagnoses and recommendations.
Actual patients, however, often describe their conditions with incomplete or irrelevant information and the chatbots cannot handle it.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Actual patients, however, often describe their conditions with incomplete or irrelevant information and the chatbots cannot handle it.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 11, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Oh man, filtering out irrelevant info is so important.
I take my wife's grandmother to her medical appointments, and she *absolutely* includes irrelevant info all the time, because she's not a doctor and doesn't know what's relevant to include.
Any doctor or PA she sees knows what doesn't matter.
I take my wife's grandmother to her medical appointments, and she *absolutely* includes irrelevant info all the time, because she's not a doctor and doesn't know what's relevant to include.
Any doctor or PA she sees knows what doesn't matter.
Reposted by Andrew Lilley Brinker
extremely hopeful, honestly. as long as you can explain the problem visually in 30 seconds you really can make people understand things they've otherwise been tricked about
ring just did it, uh, accidentally
ring just did it, uh, accidentally
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 PM
extremely hopeful, honestly. as long as you can explain the problem visually in 30 seconds you really can make people understand things they've otherwise been tricked about
ring just did it, uh, accidentally
ring just did it, uh, accidentally
GitHub Uptime!
February 10, 2026 at 4:28 PM
GitHub Uptime!
The legacy of the baseball episode lives on! @oxide.computer
February 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The legacy of the baseball episode lives on! @oxide.computer
Remembering talking to a Ring engineer years ago who was just numb to the idea that anything Ring did was concerning. Literally couldn't conceptualize it.
have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Remembering talking to a Ring engineer years ago who was just numb to the idea that anything Ring did was concerning. Literally couldn't conceptualize it.
Seems a major motivator here may have been to de-risk an Oxide rack buy for potential customers by giving them more confidence the company will be around long-term.
February 10, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Seems a major motivator here may have been to de-risk an Oxide rack buy for potential customers by giving them more confidence the company will be around long-term.
If you’re interested in trying to build this message me!
Pitch for an OSS Discord alternative:
- ATProto for identity (similar to Germ)
- E2EE with MLS
- Central server, easy to install / operate
- First-party web and mobile clients
- ATProto for identity (similar to Germ)
- E2EE with MLS
- Central server, easy to install / operate
- First-party web and mobile clients
February 10, 2026 at 12:52 AM
If you’re interested in trying to build this message me!
Pitch for an OSS Discord alternative:
- ATProto for identity (similar to Germ)
- E2EE with MLS
- Central server, easy to install / operate
- First-party web and mobile clients
- ATProto for identity (similar to Germ)
- E2EE with MLS
- Central server, easy to install / operate
- First-party web and mobile clients
February 9, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Pitch for an OSS Discord alternative:
- ATProto for identity (similar to Germ)
- E2EE with MLS
- Central server, easy to install / operate
- First-party web and mobile clients
- ATProto for identity (similar to Germ)
- E2EE with MLS
- Central server, easy to install / operate
- First-party web and mobile clients
February 9, 2026 at 11:06 PM
👀
Soft launching my Keybase on atproto alpha: @keytrace.dev
Basically the identity verification system from keybase/keyoxide but storing the identity claims on your registry and signing them based on keys in mine.
It is not focused on PGP, but on making it possible for social apps to handle identity
Basically the identity verification system from keybase/keyoxide but storing the identity claims on your registry and signing them based on keys in mine.
It is not focused on PGP, but on making it possible for social apps to handle identity
February 9, 2026 at 10:57 PM
👀
The Bluesky devs have identified a bug where Jerry’s posts escape drafts
when i save "hannah montana implies the existence of 49 other hannahs" as a draft, what good does that do except delay your eventual suffering?
February 9, 2026 at 9:26 PM
The Bluesky devs have identified a bug where Jerry’s posts escape drafts
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This is gender.
Living in this country, it’s just a reality that the left and liberals are expected to do more and uphold more. I don’t know how you can come away with any other conclusion than that when you flip the script on the above premise.
February 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM
This is gender.
Once a year on April 1st all drafts get entered into a pool to be selected and posted by the blue checks, sponsored by Draft Kings.
February 9, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Once a year on April 1st all drafts get entered into a pool to be selected and posted by the blue checks, sponsored by Draft Kings.
NYT Editor: there is exactly one Trump supporter left in the country. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to go interview them for the front page and our podcast.
February 9, 2026 at 4:45 PM
NYT Editor: there is exactly one Trump supporter left in the country. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to go interview them for the front page and our podcast.
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It's annoying how good discord is. Matrix is a nice idea, but janky in practice.
February 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
It's annoying how good discord is. Matrix is a nice idea, but janky in practice.
Huh, wonder what this means for Oxide and Friends. Says anyone who wants to speak in a voice channel will need to go through this.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Huh, wonder what this means for Oxide and Friends. Says anyone who wants to speak in a voice channel will need to go through this.