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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 13/11/2025

“We adopted #rustlang for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density ... with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one.” security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...

security.googleblog.com

Rust in Android: move fast and fix things

Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in ...

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 17/10/2025

Do you have a screenshot you can share? I only have "secret" stuff that I can't share.

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 17/10/2025

If the tooltip is over a certain length, it could instead start to pretty print it and format it over multiple lines, with indentation and line breaks (like real code getting formatted). That would be so good for readability! Am I missing a setting somewhere that does this?

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 17/10/2025

So in Java, sometimes you can have pretty long/deeply nested type signatures (yes, I'm doing something complicated :P). In @intellijidea.com, when you look at the types using Cmd+hover, why does the tooltip show everything on one super long line? Same question for Cmd+P to show arguments.

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 30/09/2025

Not sure about the annotation, but Javadoc apparently can’t be there, it has to be in a @param on the record itself.

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 26/09/2025

A tool I helped create a few years ago. It was pretty straightforward to write (~one week with a few devs) but apparently it’s really useful for certain types of research! A great collaboration between @atlassian.bsky.social and @victorchang.edu.au.

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 20/09/2025

I had to implement this at work.. Thanks JavaScript/JSON/Java/UTF-16 :/

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 21/08/2025

`jj undo`, I love you. (jj is a git-compatible git alternative. You should try it.)

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 05/08/2025

What I like about fooToBar is that it lines up with the types and e.g. put(foo, bar) (and in general how a map is a foo -> bar). What I like about bar(s)ByFoo is that it puts the more important thing first. And sometimes the "ByFoo" doesn't need to be explicit if it's clear enough without it.

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 05/08/2025

For a field with type Map<Foo, Bar>, do you prefer naming it fooToBar, or barsByFoo? (Assuming that e.g. just bars is not clear enough.)

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 22/07/2025

This was a really interesting episode about databases but also UX trade offs. (No prior knowledge of DB internals required.)

open.spotify.com

Implementing Hardware-Friendly Databases (with DuckDB co-creator, Hannes Mühleisen)

Developer Voices · Episode

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 20/06/2025

Was the first time using the new Maven Central Publisher Portal, which is the replacement for OSSRH. Followed this guide: central.sonatype.org/publish/publ... ... and it worked on the first try! Seems better than the old system, kudos to the team!

central.sonatype.org

Maven

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 28/05/2025

One of my favorite little tricks to copy some git changes to another checkout is `git diff | pbcopy` in the source followed by `pbpaste | git apply` in the destination.

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 30/04/2025

It doesn’t prevent anyone from handing in a blank vote (i.e. an “informal vote”). But yeah, compared to Switzerland, Australia has much less frequent voting, so maybe that helps.

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 30/04/2025

I like that Australia has mandatory voting -> ~90% turnout: www.aec.gov.au/Elections/fe...

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 25/04/2025

It was a great tool the few times I’ve used it, thanks! Recently I’ve discovered @duckdb.org for this. While not a direct replacement, it allows processing CSV using SQL, e.g. see

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 30/03/2025

Would be great to have it formalized, yeah! Excited for jj and other tools :)

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 29/03/2025

I see, so it’s more like “it happens to work” than being explicitly supported at this point.

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 29/03/2025

Oh, I didn’t know git allowed custom headers in commit objects, when did that happen?

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Raph Levien @raphlinus.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

New blog post up on the Rust font loader now shipping in Chrome. I only had a small part in this personally but am proud of the team's work. developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...

developer.chrome.com

Memory safety for web fonts | Blog | Chrome for Developers

Learn how and why the Chrome team has replaced FreeType with Skrifa.

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 13/03/2025

Like: - Conflicts can be resolved later, nice markers (with diff) - Stable change IDs (and surprisingly short, no need to copy paste) - jj new (with e.g. --after). Very convenient to work on stacked things in general - rebase without having to check out - push doesn’t need force - log nice and short

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 13/03/2025

I’m using it in one out of three of my checkouts (of the same repo). Most of the initial issues I had have been solved (e.g. pushing and pulling works). Some that remain: - LFS files need a workaround (just initially, not actively working with them) - No indication of branch/status in IntelliJ

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 12/03/2025

Used `jj absorb` recently and it’s so good! I had some work that was already in PR, and some work on top for later PRs. I needed to address some feedback for the PR. So just made the changes on top, then absorb -> changes are automatically put into the right commits.

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 10/02/2025

I used github.com/BurntSushi/xsv for this before which is great, but having the full power and familiarity of SQL is super useful!

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 10/02/2025

Used duckdb.org for the first time today. Just to do an inner join of two CSV files, but I'll try it again next time for some ad-hoc data processing. This is a single command, but it also has an interactive mode with syntax highlighting and completion:

Terminal command: duckdb -csv -c 'select * from "documents.csv" natural join "users.csv"' > joined.csv

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 05/02/2025

I meant to write *some* usages :). There are some reasons of the jj project here: github.com/jj-vcs/jj/is... Big fan of the project but it will be good for users to have a choice and hopefully good for both git and libgit2.

github.com

Tracking Issue for `git2` deprecation · Issue #5548 · jj-vcs/jj

There has been a latent sentiment amongst contributors that jj has outgrown its need to depend on libgit2, and as such we are moving to replace it and eventually deprecate it. This issue tracks the...

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 04/02/2025

Oh nice, there's a libification project for Git, including a Rust library! It's still early days but at some point this could replace usages of libgit2.org

lore.kernel.org

[RFC PATCH 0/6] [RFC] Introduce cgit-rs, a Rust wrapper around libgit.a - Josh Steadmon

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 25/01/2025

Nice, didn’t know that was being worked on, sorely needed. I think I like the choice of “plain” meaning without time zone. The “ISO” suffix confused me a bit until I saw it’s about the calendar.

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BNO News @bnonews.com · 16/01/2025

BREAKING: Debris seen over the Caribbean after SpaceX's Starship explodes during test flight

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 11/01/2025

zsh -> fish is another one (even better now that it’s written in rust)

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 09/01/2025

Hello @bsky.app, here's to looking into more #bluesky and beyond... 😉

Image of the Moon, on a background of the blackness of space, and foreground at right of Earth's atmosphere in shades of blue, taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the ISS in 2012.

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 07/01/2025

There's also a Nerd Font variant: brew install font-commit-mono-nerd-font (Source: github.com/Homebrew/hom...)

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 07/01/2025

I've started using the "Commit Mono" font and I'm really liking it for both editor and terminal (used to use Source Code Pro, JetBrains Mono, SF Mono). Anyone else?

commitmono.com

Commit Mono. Neutral programming typeface.

Commit Mono is an anonymous and neutral programming typeface focused on creating a better reading experience.

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 07/01/2025

Thought this ASCII art diagram for binary addition using logic gates was neat. (From #adventofcode day 24. x and y are input digits, z is result.)

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 05/01/2025

Can we have Bluesky trends but less American please?

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 31/12/2024

Surprisingly, it gets it right. But it pronounces GIF as Jif..

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 29/12/2024

Just listened to this article using iOS Safari’s new “Listen to Page” feature. It doesn’t do a bad job, but there’s some words it gets hilariously wrong, like “codebase”, “builtin”, “unfortunately”, “github” (jittub). Also wish the playback position was synced with the page. But will use again.

fishshell.com

Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus

A smart and user-friendly command line shell

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 16/12/2024

The new Siri voice (Australian) after the latest iOS update sounds weird. Not as cheerful or friendly as the previous one. Anyone else?

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 15/12/2024

Oh will try that, thanks!

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 14/12/2024

So apparently the only way to delete all photos in Google Photos is to shift-select a bunch of pages, press Delete, wait, repeat.

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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 12/12/2024

+1. In commonmark-java I return both line/column and position based locations, because both can be useful depending on use case. Also note the comment about UTF-16: github.com/commonmark/c...

github.com

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