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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I've used nix-community.github.io/home-manager/ to great success over the last year or so, but every once in a while I just got the nix error that I have no idea how to resolve.

nix-community.github.io

Home Manager Manual

This manual will eventually describe how to install, use, and extend Home Manager.

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

mise.jdx.dev is a freaking joy to use. I gotta figure out how to get it to "replace" homebrew too (maybe I can just write a brew backend)

mise.jdx.dev

Home | mise-en-place

mise-en-place documentation

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 23/07/2025

Here I am, building a platform to run pipelines based on Wasm Components, thinking it's pretty cool. Then I learn @bruhks.bsky.social builds a CLI where commands and plugins are Wasm Components, with all the benefits that brings. There's a high chance the `pipestack` CLI will follow that pattern!

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

This delimits your subcommands, and while it doesn't technically create a separate group, it's visually identical.

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Found a wonderful clap hack in #rustlang, I wanted to enable multiple subcommand headings for a plugin system I'm working on but that isn't implemented yet. But one simple line: cmd = cmd.subcommand(clap::Command::new("\n\x1b[4mPlugins:\x1b[0m").about("\n"));

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I'm huge on www.amazon.com/Trader-Joes-..., jalapeño based hot sauce from trader joes. It goes with like everything, though I wouldn't say it's necessarily hot hot.

amazon.com

Trader Joe's Green Dragon Hot Sauce

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Got my Equifax settlement check today for the good ol' data breach. At least I was able to get the next season battle pass for Hearthstone with the $20 consolation prize for leaking my SSN

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guid... omg they changed it so that it's not an issue anymore!

doc.rust-lang.org

if let temporary scope - The Rust Edition Guide

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

There really is nothing like getting a bunch of fresh perspectives on what you're building news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4302...

news.ycombinator.com

WASM-Native Orchestration | Hacker News

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Got lazy when creating a "Hello, world!" project today. I've been having a wonderful time running `cd hell`

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I'm convinced that a great review strategy on GitHub when you have high trust in the PR creator is to approve and leave comments for all your nits / questions. Set your branch rules to require all comments to resolve to merge, then the creator can respond appropriately and make changes if needed.

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Every time I shake my phone and an app asks if I wanted to report a problem it sparks joy. Like, all these developers thought if someone RAGED at their app so much they shook their phone, that it would be helpful to ask for some feedback. It’s so pure 🥹

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Is there any particular type of runner on GitHub actions that's most available? I have a pretty simple workflow that I just want to get picked up as fast as possible, and I'm noticing `ubuntu-latest` can take sometimes ~30 seconds to request (first world problems, I know)

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

You mean my totally hand-written "Join us on this journey of discovery, where every layer, every pod, and every cluster tells a story of progress—and where the possibilities for the next chapter are as boundless as the cloud itself." isn't getting past the filters?

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

What does it take to get a project on the GitHub trending list? Seems to be mostly based on star momentum, but also a large increase in a single day? 🤔

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

CO detectors are definitely programmed to start low battery chirping in the middle of the night

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Do you have the same experience testing things in GitHub workflows for Windows? I think generally our #rustlang projects run great w/ unit tests, but we lose running containers & the interactive tty

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

That's a good idea 🤔 I mean I do have a Windows box as well, it's really just that I don't use either in normal dev flows / before we release. One of our recent bugs came up around canonicalizing paths, though, so I doubt PowerShell on Mac would help with that one

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It's more of a limitation on maintainer expertise and time :/ None of the maintainers daily drive on Windows, and the interactive bits of our developer CLI just act differently on powershell in a way that we can't test effectively

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It's a sad day when you finally resort to "If you're on Windows, you should install WSL" in your quickstart 😔

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I don’t know if we can trust this 🤔

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Whole day. Wasn't fun. Onto today

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Another day another deep dive into why #rustlang tracing is being weird

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Very exciting to see given our recent focus on all three of these @wasmcloud.com 😍

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Thank you @cncf.bsky.social for the Contribfest sessions at #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon! We had a bunch of new contributors show up for @wasmcloud.com and can't wait to apply for it again next year.

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It might get extended, but don't forget! #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon 😆😭

A relaxing week for engineers who do talks post kubecon is held back by the incoming KubeCon EU CFP deadline friday

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I’d really like to see the blog post-mortem from Netflix that shows numbers for just how much data they streamed during that fight. Would be fun to see the attempts (failed or successful) to replicate that

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Are you saying that it's hard no matter what issue you take first?

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The @wasmcloud.com ContribFest session was so wonderful today; so happy that folks came by and learned about the project and contributed for the first time 😄

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wasmCloud @wasmcloud.com · 12/11/2024

NEWS: Delighted to announce, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept wasmCloud as a CNCF incubating project! 🎉🙌💥💚 A huge milestone that wouldn't be possible without our maintainers, end users and the entire wasmCloud + #CNCF communities 🙏 www.cncf.io/blog/2024/11...

cncf.io

CNCF welcomes wasmCloud to the CNCF Incubator

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept wasmCloud as a CNCF incubating project. wasmCloud, an open source project from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)…

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Turning apple intelligence on be like

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

"We introduced some necessary abstraction layers that are specific to development environments and cast aside much of the infrastructure complexity that we didn’t need—all whilst putting zero-trust security first." I did not expect for this to hit as hard as it did

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

The best part about #opensource is the community. Cannot imagine the majority of code that I write going anywhere but OSS

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

I got burned again today with the same sneaky deadlock in Rust that I've been burned by before, so I'm sharing the knowledge. If you use Mutex/RwLocks in your code, it's good to be aware of this nuance with `if let` blocks. brooksblog.bearblog.dev/rusts-sneaky...

brooksblog.bearblog.dev

Rust's Sneaky Deadlock With `if let` Blocks

Rust is my favorite programming language. I've been writing Rust for about 6 years, from college to professionally, and I'm vocal about how helpful the compi...

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

GitHub copilot tries to autocomplete every comment I start with "NOTE(brooksmtownsend):" with "This is a bit of a hack" 😭

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

The @wasmcloud.com #Wasm component experience is just looking better and better by the day. These #rustlang and #golang components use the http crate and net/http respectively, compile straight to the wasip2 target, and their code fits in a terminal window 💥

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Brooks Townsend 🦀 @bruhks.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Sounds like we're in need of a `cargo-train` project 😛

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