Christopher Armstrong
@radix.arpeggiogame.com
software dev, gardener, woodworker. Pittsburgh
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If you're a Rust programmer, your take away from the incident should not be that you should not unwrap, but it should be that you need to have a strategy for handling panicking, and you need to consider that strategy every time you unwrap, and ensure that recovery is properly implemented and tested
November 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
If you're a Rust programmer, your take away from the incident should not be that you should not unwrap, but it should be that you need to have a strategy for handling panicking, and you need to consider that strategy every time you unwrap, and ensure that recovery is properly implemented and tested
I love me a datacenter, just really wish govts wouldn't allow power companies to raise residential prices so much to support them. If infrastructure needs improved solely due to a small number of users, those users need to pay way more for those projects & ongoing costs
Truly there are few things and few industries more efficient than the modern data center and we don’t really accomplish anything by having fewer of them aside from less redundancy (ie more unreliable service) and greater centralization. That this likely uses *more* power and water is unavoidable.
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I love me a datacenter, just really wish govts wouldn't allow power companies to raise residential prices so much to support them. If infrastructure needs improved solely due to a small number of users, those users need to pay way more for those projects & ongoing costs
my furnace was going all night last night and I woke up with such a horrible sore throat, so it is now humidifier season
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
my furnace was going all night last night and I woke up with such a horrible sore throat, so it is now humidifier season
I discovered there's a really nice coworking space 10 minutes down the road from me in the North Side. Going to sign up so that I don't get S.A.D. staying home all winter
November 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I discovered there's a really nice coworking space 10 minutes down the road from me in the North Side. Going to sign up so that I don't get S.A.D. staying home all winter
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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
#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
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
#rustlang
this was my afternoon & evening
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
this was my afternoon & evening
another season, another sewer pipe excavation in my basement 😩
October 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
another season, another sewer pipe excavation in my basement 😩
anyone else have a very Linux Morning?
my Ubuntu machine decided to boot up in 1024x768 and no second monitor. I checked Software Updater and saw a bunch of Nvidia driver updates. Software Updater of course then crashed and I had to `apt upgrade` from the CLI. Fortunately back to normal now...
my Ubuntu machine decided to boot up in 1024x768 and no second monitor. I checked Software Updater and saw a bunch of Nvidia driver updates. Software Updater of course then crashed and I had to `apt upgrade` from the CLI. Fortunately back to normal now...
October 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
anyone else have a very Linux Morning?
my Ubuntu machine decided to boot up in 1024x768 and no second monitor. I checked Software Updater and saw a bunch of Nvidia driver updates. Software Updater of course then crashed and I had to `apt upgrade` from the CLI. Fortunately back to normal now...
my Ubuntu machine decided to boot up in 1024x768 and no second monitor. I checked Software Updater and saw a bunch of Nvidia driver updates. Software Updater of course then crashed and I had to `apt upgrade` from the CLI. Fortunately back to normal now...
you really think you love squirrels until they dig up all the spring bulbs you just planted
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
you really think you love squirrels until they dig up all the spring bulbs you just planted
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Are you building a cool application with gpui, like William Whittaker's Hummingbird?
github.com/143mailliw/h...
github.com/143mailliw/h...
October 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Are you building a cool application with gpui, like William Whittaker's Hummingbird?
github.com/143mailliw/h...
github.com/143mailliw/h...
big news. I really want to use this to experiment with my crazy ideas for terminals that align really closely with how Zed embeds Alacritty
GPUI (v0.2.0), the GPU-accelerated Rust UI framework that powers Zed, is on crates dot io. 👀
crates.io/crates/gpui
crates.io/crates/gpui
October 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
big news. I really want to use this to experiment with my crazy ideas for terminals that align really closely with how Zed embeds Alacritty
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Oh man, this is so exciting 🤞 gpui being published on crates.io unlocks so much potential
crates.io/crates/gpui/...
crates.io/crates/gpui/...
crates.io: Rust Package Registry
crates.io
October 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Oh man, this is so exciting 🤞 gpui being published on crates.io unlocks so much potential
crates.io/crates/gpui/...
crates.io/crates/gpui/...
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Reposted by Christopher Armstrong
We're making it easier for developers to build amazing things, by introducing major upgrades. https://cfl.re/46mFy4R #BirthdayWeek
Cloudflare's developer platform keeps getting better, faster, and more powerful. Here's everything that's new.
We're making it easier for developers to build amazing things, by introducing major upgrades like external model support in AI Search (previously AutoRAG), updates to Node.js compatibility, support f...
cfl.re
September 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We're making it easier for developers to build amazing things, by introducing major upgrades. https://cfl.re/46mFy4R #BirthdayWeek
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East Liberty. 400 N Highland Ave - The Home Depot. Caller said that some guy attempted to photograph another person from under a restroom stall while the person was making the air freshener work overtime. The photographer is currently getting his ass beat.
September 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
East Liberty. 400 N Highland Ave - The Home Depot. Caller said that some guy attempted to photograph another person from under a restroom stall while the person was making the air freshener work overtime. The photographer is currently getting his ass beat.
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text from friend, idk how to answer this
September 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
text from friend, idk how to answer this
I finished Moonbound by Robin Sloan last night. Absolutely loved it. Like a weird modern version of The Wizard of Oz.
Also I just found out that Robin Sloan was a producer on that weird film Epic 2014 from 20 years ago...
Also I just found out that Robin Sloan was a producer on that weird film Epic 2014 from 20 years ago...
September 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I finished Moonbound by Robin Sloan last night. Absolutely loved it. Like a weird modern version of The Wizard of Oz.
Also I just found out that Robin Sloan was a producer on that weird film Epic 2014 from 20 years ago...
Also I just found out that Robin Sloan was a producer on that weird film Epic 2014 from 20 years ago...
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The fuck is a cantab?
August 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The fuck is a cantab?
plumbers doing work on my house's sewer drainage in my basement:
August 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
plumbers doing work on my house's sewer drainage in my basement:
why does there have to be so much damn extremism with AI discourse, geeze. I mean, specifically in relation to coding / "non-creative" stuff
August 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
why does there have to be so much damn extremism with AI discourse, geeze. I mean, specifically in relation to coding / "non-creative" stuff
pretty sick that my local pizza bar is now subreddit-famous for bodily removing a slurring piece of shit from their premises. 🤘
August 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
pretty sick that my local pizza bar is now subreddit-famous for bodily removing a slurring piece of shit from their premises. 🤘
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The reason EV range (and gas mileage) go down so much when you drive faster is because, when you drive twice as fast, you hit twice as many molecules AND you hit each of those molecules with twice as much force, which means drag increases exponentially.
August 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The reason EV range (and gas mileage) go down so much when you drive faster is because, when you drive twice as fast, you hit twice as many molecules AND you hit each of those molecules with twice as much force, which means drag increases exponentially.
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it's a damn shame that Deus Ex hasn't been remastered
August 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
it's a damn shame that Deus Ex hasn't been remastered
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Me, dodging new spiderwebs in the yard every night & morning:
a man in a black ninja costume is hiding in the sand on the beach .
ALT: a man in a black ninja costume is hiding in the sand on the beach .
media.tenor.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Me, dodging new spiderwebs in the yard every night & morning: