Matt Kline @CompareAndSwap

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. bitbashing.io Seattle Joined April 2012

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Matt Kline @CompareAndSwap

4 weeks ago

Thank you for the kind reminder, Stack.

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Matt Kline @CompareAndSwap

a month ago

I tried to make my hobby project async and all I got was this crappy t-shirt: bitbashing.io/async-arc.html

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[1/2] My @BetterSoftwareC talk is up! It's called "The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake". I went through a mountain of historical documents to put this beast together. Only a small fraction of my research could be featured directly in the talk...

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Matt Kline @CompareAndSwap

3 months ago

You hate systemd because "it violates the Unix philosophy". I hate systemd because it fucked up log rotation on production boxes by overwriting my config with random undocumented constants picked by Lennart himself. We are not the same.

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Matt Kline @CompareAndSwap

6 months ago

Spurious wakeups aren't real and can't hurt you. bitbashing.io/haskell-concur…

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Casey Muratori @cmuratori

9 months ago

When I say it's easier to understand assembly language than web "tech", I'm not kidding. Assembly is by its nature simple and limited. Standard web technologies are sprawling, ill-defined, and massively overcomplicated for what they do. If you can learn React, you can learn ASM.

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Sophie Fullerton @florida_sophia

2 years ago

As Carlson gets celebrity treatment in Moscow, Russia just extended the detention of American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva & Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Those defending Carlson should reflect on why Carlson is getting unfettered access while others get detained.

Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson

2 years ago

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Matt Kline @CompareAndSwap

2 years ago

Why is the preeminent Rust HTTP library sitting on a bunch of unsafe rewrites of standard library tools? Isn't this the language where we get fastness *and* correctness out of the box? bitbashing.io/rust-http.html

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Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude

2 years ago

jade.fyi/blog/flakes-ar… is a fun read

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Matt Kline @CompareAndSwap

2 years ago

There, I said it. bitbashing.io/async-rust.html

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Matt Kline @CompareAndSwap

3 years ago

Let's talk about error handling. bitbashing.io/stating-the-ob…

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Matt Kline @CompareAndSwap

3 years ago

Want to learn how to create beautiful writing in LaTeX without wading through a bunch of archaic crap? Check out my (very) short book, Modern LaTeX! Free at assets.bitbashing.io/modern-latex.p…, or dead tree editions at app.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/mode… amazon.com/Modern-LaTeX-M…

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Matt Kline @CompareAndSwap

6 years ago

#MakeSpaceForWomen featuring the woman who coined the term software engineering and landed astronauts on the moon with a real-time operating system. Fifty years ago. In assembly.