Alona @alona.page · 29/09/2026noise-cancelling culture has gone too far (calling a friend, and can’t glorious pouring hear the rain where she is) 060
Alona @alona.page · 28/09/2026so called “inflation kinksters” when the FOMC votes 12-0 to raise the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points 100
Reposted by AlonaGraydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I wholly and un-ironically believe that versioning ought to make up a significant fraction of any formal training in computers. Multiple full year courses in your degree. And there should be a set of journals and conferences on it, endowed chairs, advanced research institutes, the whole nine yards. 013314
Alona @alona.page · 25/09/2026@jevbot.bsky.social how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? 110
Alona @alona.page · 18/09/2026shout-out to Git Merge for being one of the least googleable conferences out there. 090
Reposted by Alonasrrrse @without.boats · 17/09/2026getting the European Commission to declare Rust a gatekeeper under the DMA to force them to stabilize an ABI 0504
Alona @alona.page · 11/09/2026worlds most trite point, but wow the beetles were really good. (In My Life this time) 010
Alona @alona.page · 11/09/2026is there a paper on the relationship between number of fuzzing cycles and number or bugs found? i feel like i remember this being a thing, but can’t find it. 151
Reposted by Alonafrancis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 16/11/2025my "I ❤️ GATEKEEPING" shirt has people asking questions that they frankly would never even understand the answers to 51029237
Alona @alona.page · 07/09/2026how the hell is there a Worshipful Company of Management Consultants??? livery companies are for butchers, bakers, candlestick makers and the like. if you work to achieve strategic corporate synergy, what are you doing in a guild? 001
Alona @alona.page · 06/09/2026why did the for you feed decide to show me a load of college football stuff? im hearing an incredible amount about Michigan and some questionable review and time being distorted. and i have no idea what they’re all talking about 130
Alona @alona.page · 05/09/2026current status: unsure if this music sounds better because i finally turned off mono audio on my phone, or because im slightly drunk 140
Alona @alona.page · 02/09/2026dom mindset: every path to that node must go through me first switch mindset: i hope my case labels are consecutive so i can be transformed into a jump table sub mindset: i don’t care if my operands are signed or unsigned 0377
Reposted by AlonaKate @katef.bsky.social · 02/09/2026hiring for a product manager for dsl language design and its associated sdk. how do you interview for that? what do you ask someone about language design? and if you can tell me that, please also give me your cv and apply for the role thank you 9308
Alona @alona.page · 28/08/2026i should admit i was wrong about rustdoc perf when Predrag asked me about it. i thought it was dominated by rustc-proper and there wasn’t much time to be saved in rustdoc code. that’s what i get for not profiling, and going on memories/vibes 050
Alona @alona.page · 28/08/2026has someone written a “why is rustdoc so hairy” post, about how rustdoc needs to be so much more involved than an AST->HTML tree traversal? about why does it have so much gnarly internals. 1100
Alona @alona.page · 28/08/2026has someone written a “why is rustdoc so hairy” post, about how rustdoc needs to be so much more involved than an AST->HTML tree traversal? about why does it have so much gnarly internals. 000
Alona @alona.page · 27/08/2026shout out to Sam Altman for inventing previously unheard-of forms of transbian drama. 020
Alona @alona.page · 25/08/2026someone should make JPEG-XL2, to contain all the improvements made to image codecs in the time people have been trying to ship JPEG-XL 130
Alona @alona.page · 24/08/2026rustdoc internals are finished! github.com/rust-lang/ru...github.comrustdoc: Tracking issue for rustdoc internals · Issue #90418 · rust-lang/rustThis is a tracking issue for the internal feature rustdoc internals. The feature gate for this issue is rustdoc_internals. It hosts the following non-exhaustive list of subfeatures (not guaranteed ... 020
Reposted by Alonaponder @ponder.ooo · 23/08/2026gpu stands for "general processing unit", bc it handles the general case of computation, where you just want to do massively parallel SIMD stuff on giant ndarrays. cpu stands for "constrained processing unit", it's for use in the rare edge cases where you need to do single-threaded bullshit 912211
Reposted by Alonawords @words.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I was today years old when I learned linus torvalds invented github 6843
Reposted by Alonascanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026stolen from the astral codex ten discord 0374
Reposted by AlonaJohn Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 20/08/20262029 MLS playoff format - Top 20 teams make the playoffs - Double round-robin home and away group stage - Team with the highest point total is champion - Non-playoff teams compete in a "loser's bracket" whose top three finishers replace the bottom three playoff teams next year - No regular season 419724
Reposted by AlonaOut of Context Simpsons Couch Gags @ooccouchgags.bsky.social · 20/08/2026 1248752603
Alona @alona.page · 20/08/2026i should disclose i also got one of these somewhere, but i have no clue where it ended up 😔 010
Alona @alona.page · 19/08/2026i don’t gotta keep all the balls i’m juggling in the air: github.com/rust-lang/ru...github.comrustdoc-json: Postcard output by aDotInTheVoid · Pull Request #142642 · rust-lang/rustView all comments What rustdoc --output-format=postcard is like rustdoc-json, but using https://postcard.rs/ / https://docs.rs/postcard/1.1.1/ instead of JSON. Why JSON Size and speed isn't gr... 040
Reposted by Alona𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 19/08/2026they should make a grenade that puts everything around it back together 2122
Reposted by AlonaMatt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 17/08/2026I'll only tolerate this kind of behavior from one artist, and it's @themountaingoats.bsky.socialthehardtimes.netJohn Darnielle Reveals Syllabus For Upcoming AlbumDURHAM, N.C. – John Darnielle, lead singer of The Mountain Goats, revealed the academic syllabus for the band’s new album “Jenny From... Get the full story 0122
