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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

#EuroRust was SO fun! Thanks to too many people to fit here, the organisers, the speakers, the friends - I can't wait to come back next year. (Maybe I'll even have my OWN talk instead of riding on @fasterthanlime 's coattails 😁 )

a photo of the eurorust audience (about 500 people) taken from the stage

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

If AI models are just a kind of compression, Disney's lawyers have the potential to do the funniest thing of all time...

comically bad AI slop micky mouse with a gun

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing. ✨️

a json excerpt that says: "body_state": "hydrated"

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

:rust: This is why you should always enable `pedantic` lints in clippy - it'll even neg your markdown documentation! My lint recs here: www.namtao.com/rust/#strict-lints

A screenshot of the output of `cargo clippy` showing:
```
error: item in documentation is missing backticks
help: try
33 - /// NOTE: initial() must exist in the context of an
33 + /// NOTE: `initial()` must exist in the context of an
```

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

I'm at #rustweek2026 and Greg Kroah-Hartman from the Linux Foundation is PREACHING🙌 :rust:

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

how, after all these years, does xkcd keep on smashing it?!

an xkcd comic about how labour is always more expensive than materials

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

Do these people ever look at themselves and wonder if they're the baddies?

an email advertising an ai cheating tool

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

It also stops claude from making issues or PRs on any of your repos. I consider this a bonus.

A screenshot from github saying:

You are about to block: @claude

Blocking a user prevents the following on all your repositories:

X opening or commenting on issues or pull requests

x starring, forking, or watching

X adding or editing wiki pages

Additionally, blocked users are not able to:

X invite you as a collaborator to their repositories

x follow your account's public activity

x send you notifications by @mentioning your username in public
repositories

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history. This allows you to, the moment you look at a repo, immediately adjust your expectations. You may do so here: github.com/settings/blocked_users

A github screenshot showing a repo with the message "a user you've blocked has previous contributed to this repository"

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

:obsidian: OK, I JUST noticed that #Obsidian 1.12 ships a CLI to interact with your vault! I'm testing it with the insider build AND IT'S SO GOOD! There's too much to post about here, I put my long-form thoughts on this development into a post on my patreon […] [Original post on namtao.com]

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the 3rd time we have destroyed an #AI bubble, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

a still from matrix 2 of the Architect in front of TV screens

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

If you'd rather learn from his (small!) book than a course, I bullied him into making a drm-free ebook available to buy here: traditionkeeper8.gumroad.com/l/asys…

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

OK, I'm sold on cosmic desktop environment, it was trivial to get pywal16 to theme it 😀 NixOS users, it's a one-line install: ```nix services.desktopManager.cosmic.enable = true; ``` Here's some rice for you nice people:

a screenshot of cosmic desktop environment with two windows demonstrating a rust theme

a screenshot of cosmic desktop environment with two windows demonstrating a grassy theme

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

@feoh It's in settings>editor>properties in document! 😁

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2025

:quote_red: "I only use #AI for the simple, easy work that I don't really care about" WOW, amazing, what a high bar 🙄

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2025

My time at #rustweek2025 comes to an end, all too soon! Thanks so much to @Mara and the team and volenteers for such a great, inclusive, fun time ❤️ :rust:

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2025

Only saw this today. Absolutely devastating to my whole identity.

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2025

A rendering error accidentally summed up my mental state while writing the next video 😅

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2025

Is YouTube so out of touch? No, it's the stats that are wrong. /s 🙄

A screenshot of an email from youtube with the words "views will count the number of times your Short starts to play or replay" highlighted by me.

"A change to how we count Short views

As short-form video continues to grow on YouTube, we know that creators want a deeper understanding of how their short-form videos are performing holistically, including when they are posting across multiple platforms.

Historically on YouTube, a view has been counted after a Short is played for a certain number of seconds. However, we’ve heard from creators that they want to understand how often their Shorts are seen. So, going forward, views will count the number of times your Short starts to play or replay, with no minimum watch time requirement. We will keep the existing Shorts view metric, now called “engaged views,” in YouTube Analytics so you can see how many viewers chose to continue watching your video."

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2025

Examples like this makes me so confident about using Rust for years to come: If your language has comptime, you can't have macros. If your language has macros, you *CAN* have comptime. docs.rs/crabtime/latest/crabtime

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2025

They've put Copilot right at the top of the GitHub dashboard, so it must be good by now, right? RIGHT? Of course not.

a screenshot of copilot getting the question wrong:
"alice has 3 brothers and also has 6 sisters, how many sisters does her brother have?"

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2025

The big-brain marketing geniuses over at Patreon are at it again. 🤑 (I will not be increasing my tier prices, OBVIOUSLY)

A screenshot of a patreon message that says "Recommended for You: Your US$1 tier is your most popular Earn more when new members join. You can raise the tier price for new members only, so existing members can stay at their current price."

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2025

Don't let anyone tell you that being a YouTuber isn't a serious job.

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2025

Don't compile :rust: #Rust projects in your Dropbox directory, kids 🫠

A screenshot from a Dropbox notification email warning me that 3400 files were deleted from my Dropbox account

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2025

One of these is not like the other. (I just noticed that Telegram syntax highlighting demonstrates The Norway Problem!) The lesson, as ever, is we must strive to make our libraries as simple as possible, but no simpler. hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implici…

A yaml list of country codes where NO is in a different colour than GB, FR and others

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2025

Inspiration has returned, I am writing another :rust: #rust video 😁 🎉

A slide that reads "WHEN DESCENDING INTO HELL(1) IT'S EASY TO LOSE YOUR HUMANITY(2)"
(1) Direct memory access
(2) High-level ergonomics

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