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24; he/him; gay furry with no idea how to find myself a good username
Rust and Linux enthusiast
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I am currently creating my own wayland protocol implementation and I love doing weird tricks to evade having to deal with null-terminated strings ...
Screenshot of code that implements the serialization of a wayland message with a comment saying: Write the interface string to the buffer. Because `Interface::NAME` lacks the expected null terminator, we just pretend we write a string with len+1 to the buffer and then set the padding (which is there *anyways*) to zero, which makes sure we the string data is followed by a null byte. (Which has effectively the same impact as if we wrote a full null terminated string)
October 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
You shall be gifted my random HTML/CSS shenanigans for sharing this 💚

Your post made me think there should be a "hug" button and not only the impersonal "like" button, so i made it happen! (ish)
Screenshot of the posts statistics with one "hug" edited in.
September 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Hmm ... Seems like a perfect number.

Let wait and see if someone ruins it.
Screenshot of the post with exactly 69 likes.
July 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Scariest words I ever had to write.
I hate ABA problems!
Screenshot of a code comment: FIX: There is a race condition here, where message queue has already wrapped around at this point, which would mean that there are two threads trying to do the cleanup in parallel, which is undefined behavior. For now we just assume that never actually happens.
June 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Not for me!
Terminal screenshot showing that `MANPAGER="nvim '+Man!' -"` is set: $ echo "$MANPAGER" nvim '+Man!' -
April 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
My reaction to this image:

No.
I wont.
You can't make me!
Screenshot of a dialogue prompt: Your instance folder is in a temporary folder: '/tmp'! This is a problem: - The launcher will likely be deleted without warning by the operating system - close the launcher now and extract it to a real location, not a temporary folder
April 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"No take! Only throw"-dog-meme with the text "No people face! Only Dog"
April 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I can top that easily!

Witness my graveyard!!!
A whole lot of firefox windows with even more tabs open.
April 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
TIL that libxkbcommon only supports switching between 4 different layouts! Not more.

github.com/xkbcommon/li...
C code setting the layout limit to 4. (For more details see the link)
March 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This made me actually laugh out loud!
And I guess my `wc -l` says the same as your `wc -l`
Terminal output of piping the command from the above command through `wc -l`: [~]$ ffmpeg -hide_banner -codecs | grep DEVIL | wc -l 19
February 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
On firefox you can do so under about:preferences > Privacy & Security > DNS over HTTPS > Max Protection
Screenshot of the firefox setting "Enable DNS over HTTPS" set to "Max Protection" with the DNS provider set to "Cloudflare"
February 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Yeah, JSONC is pretty nice to work with.
Especially when you have `conceal` enabled for it.

(Here an `.luarc.jsonrc` highlighted with neovim as an example)
Highlighted jsonc file where quotes around keys and strings are invisible while not being on that line with the cursor.
January 30, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Another instance that makes me really happy that neovim packages the lua reference manual under `:h luaref.txt`.

Otherwise I would have had to try to find out /why the hell/ that works.

(With it I can just look up that part of the grammar in `:h lua-tableconstructor`)
Screenshot of fieldseparator grammar: fieldsep ::= , | ;
January 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM
TIL `;` is a valid field separator in lua 5.1 .

I don't know who came up with that, but I wish I could time travel a bit and convince them to be reasonable and NOT allow that.

Luckily `stylua` can just reformat them to `,`s automatically.
Code screenshot from my neovim config, showing a lua table that is using semicolons as separators instead of commas
January 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Okay this part of the C3 website cracked me up:

"they're deliberately balanced to ensure that code reading isn't made difficult."

We are doing game balancing for programming languages now?!

c3-lang.org
Screenshot of the C3 language website: Semantic Macros Macros that are just as easy to read and write as regular functions. Packing much more power than C's preprocessor, they're deliberately balanced to ensure that code reading isn't made difficult. With "they're deliberately balanced to ensure that code reading isn't made difficult." highlighted
January 3, 2025 at 2:57 AM
For some reason I find that really funny!
Screenshot from the link above opened in the EU: 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time.
January 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Replies tab!
Screenshot of tab headers "Posts", "Replies" and "Media" of bluesky, with "Replies" selected.
December 22, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Ended up looking into this further and hacking something together using `cmp`s `formatting` option.

It sadly doesn't show the full path of the item, but the import statement of the thing being imported, but it should be good enough I guess.

github.com/titaniumtrav...
Screenshot of `nvim-cmp` completion that is explicitly showing the items that are being imported.
December 21, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Inspecting your formatter rules the project has configured that removed the second line the intern initially put there.
(Really! I'm 100% sure! It was there just a minute ago!)
Image of tsoding holding a magnifying glass to his eye
December 1, 2024 at 10:16 AM
One of the answers for the questions is even wrong!
You can't just `move || {}` a Vec into multiple closures.
Answer to an example interview question, which contains an ownership error in the example code.
November 7, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Yep, definitely works:
Image of the post from a logged out browser, demonstrating that the content label is being applied correctly.
November 5, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Didn't that exist for a while already?
I'm pretty sure I have seen it in the past.

Yeah, rust 1.50.0 (2021-02-10) had that feature already.
Rustdoc of rust version 1.50.0 showing that it already had the capability to search by return type.
October 3, 2024 at 11:14 PM
The worst thing about SMART is that there are 5000 variants of it and nobody agrees on one and what they mean.
(It is even worse if you learn about it in a different language where the letters are named similarly, but mean different things.)
A table describing the different variations of SMART-goals. Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria#Common_usage
June 29, 2024 at 8:54 AM
I guess this is kind of accurate.
Stupid quiz describing me as Soft Alpha
January 18, 2024 at 4:51 AM