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Freelance performance & distributed systems engineer.

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cool job at a very special computer company

- write TypeScript and Rust
- everyone makes $235k
- fully remote
- everything is open source
Product Engineer / Oxide
oxide.computer
November 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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New post: SocketAddrV6 is not roundtrip serializable 😱

A journey from an innocent property-based test at Oxide to the depths of the IPv6 specification, with tons of information about the flowinfo (and scope_id) fields. Give it a read!
`SocketAddrV6` is not roundtrip serializable · sunshowers
An investigation into some lesser-known IPv6 features.
sunshowers.io
November 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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To conclude: my silver lining hope is that AWS going down can be a learning moment, in which the risks of concentrating the nervous system of our world in the hands of a few players become very clear. And that this can help us craft ways of undoing this concentration and creating real choice ❤️ 13/
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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A blog post on new features in Rust, covering the last year and a half (since the last one): www.ncameron.org/blog/recent-... (spoiler: a lot more new stuff than I realised!)

#rustlang
Recent Rust Changes
In May last year I wrote a blog post on how Rust had evolved from the 1.0 release to 1.78. I found it really interesting to group all the changes together by topic, rather than seeing the language evo...
www.ncameron.org
October 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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#P99CONF is going live in just minutes! Here's a peek at the behind-the-scenes prep. If you haven't registered yet, hurry over to p99conf.io. It's free and virtual, so no excuses. 😅
October 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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🚀 We just released Zed v0.200!

In a previous release, we added the `--diff` flag to the Zed CLI. Now, you can compare two files directly from the project panel, via `Compare marked files`.
August 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM