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Aria Desires
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it's me, the gay cat who writes your docs~!

author of the rustonomicon and learn rust with entirely too many linked lists; worked on homestuck, rust-lang, swift-lang, firefox

she/her, trans, 30
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【 𝕄 𝔸 ℝ 𝕀 ℕ 𝔸 】

"I don't think you're as cute or as smart
as he's always saying you are."

(●0●)

#mischiefmakers #fanart
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.
I asked what I should use instead of firefox and someone said “floorp” and I legitimately thought it was a bit for like five minutes. tech has gone beyond making the torment nexus real to making poob real.
December 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
so pumped for the ty beta to finally be here, we did so much great work it rules! astral.sh/blog/ty
ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server
ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust, and designed as an alternative to mypy, Pyright, and Pylance.
astral.sh
December 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
lisp is ancap xml
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
python match statements are beautiful and the implications of pattern matches with python scoping rules are extremely funny
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
average company meeting at Astral
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Just remembered this great series of retrospectives on Swift's language design by Jordan Rose

belkadan.com/blog/tags/sw...
Archive for “Swift regrets” // -dealloc
belkadan.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Bring back std::std, the curious inner-module did nothing wrong

github.com/rust-lang/ru...
github.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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THIS IS A SOS DISTRESS SIGNAL: Any of my mutuals on here happen to be 65816 wizards and extremely interested in it? who might be interested in solving a single problem in smrpg modding?
November 22, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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👩‍🌾 Grab your tools
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
never forget the brave unstable compiler flags that gave their lives in the line of duty

rest in peace, -Z everybody-loops, the compiler flag that replaced every function body with loop {}
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Just released cargo-nextest 0.9.113, with support for a long-requested feature that I realized I needed all of a sudden: debugger support! Run individual tests under gdb, lldb, WinDbg, or Visual Studio Code via CodeLLDB! This preserves all the environment setup done by nextest.
November 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
implementing Drop is a Rust poweruser feature
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
<implementing python docstring rendering>
"huh why does the ipaddress module in the python stdlib have a ton of google-style docstrings"

# Copyright 2007 Google Inc.
# Licensed to PSF under a Contributor Agreement.

ok google, sure thing buddy, proud of you i guess
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
yooo the android devs are officially writing more rust per day than c/c++!!! security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...
Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in ...
security.googleblog.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
just learned python typing invented a new kind of voldemort type, one which when named doesn't actually name it

`float` and `int` are two distinct types

but if you write `x: float` that actually means `x: float | int`. but if you write `x: float | int` that means `x: float | int | int`...
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
oh no i'm understanding python types enough to take psychic damage about them now help
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
in honour of yet another rustc dev coming out as trans, i propose that we rename Compiler Diagnostics to Compiler Dysphorias
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Arukenimon my beloved
#digimon
November 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
if my greatest legacy on ty development is convincing my coworkers that defaulting to bivariance is fucked up and evil, i will be content with my impact
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
tired: x = y
wired: from . import y as x
October 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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advice to every Rust organizational decisionmaker out there: shut up, stop making excuses, and take notes from the PSF: bsky.app/profile/pyth...
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
🧵
The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Finally had a chance to use if-let chaining and oh it's glorious ok this feature is wholy justified. Free from the shackles of complicated and_then chains.
October 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM