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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

lol, Linkedin web app on mobile sends you back to previous page if you scroll enough then hit the "no I don't want the app" button. I didn't want to use your site anyway!

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Americanos are so good I can't believe I've been missing this

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

So wack that in C++ you dereference a pointer to get a reference instead of &*-ing it. Rust once again most intuitive language

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Finishing a game I really didn't enjoy and seeing it has a 91 on metacritic makes me feel like a colossal hater lmao

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 04/11/2025

One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Tell me why my climbing gym is trying to sell TWELVE DOLLAR smoothies no wonder I never see anyone drinking one

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I don't have a horse in the baseball fight but listening to the game on the free radio broadcast rules

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Gotta say this is king shit from the libxml2 folks who know perfectly well it's used in all kinds of external facing mission critical places

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Spent the entire new Frankenstein movie scared the monster was going to come out of the screen and start beating me over the head with the moral of the story

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Is the best way to make a bug based fuzzing benchmark really just to go through CVEs and find every issue in the tracker and hope there's a POC 😭

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Kristopher Micinski @krismicinski.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Talk Tomorrow: "Scalable Static Analysis and High-Performance Logic Programming" (github.com/kmicinski/mi...)

github.com

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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

me (recently into bouldering): CI: me: CI: ... me: nice, come on CI: ... me: yeah, come on... CI: ... me: CI: ... me: COME ON!! CI: ... CI: ❌ me: ah! good attempt!!

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dmnk @dmnk.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Must-read for fuzzing folks (read: tooling/algorithms/academia) by Addison Crump addisoncrump.info/research/wha...

addisoncrump.info

What the hell are we doing? · Addison Crump

Homepage for Addison Crump

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Making my conference slides and formatting code in google slides sucks and the devil on my shoulder is telling me to use beamer but I will NOT

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Yeah, you could say I'm a vibe coder (using claude to suggest synonyms of my traits with different first letters so they can all be abbreviated prettily as generic parameters)

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I have a hot take that Result is extremely overused in places where stuff should probably just panic and often ends up obscuring the problem by bubbling up errors too high. Panicking is okay!

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Never going to be the same now that I can just buy sashimi grade fish as uwajimaya and get 75% of the restaurant sushi experience for 15% of the price

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Oh shit well I'm glad I'm safe from the war over here in Beaverton

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Drank a caffeinated coffee this morning after months on decaf and spent a 3 hour drive learning about marine diesel engines and saturation diving procedures

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Saw (and unfortunately squished trying to capture) my first giant house spider today, gotta say I am really not a fan of 4" spiders.

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Q McCallum @qethanm.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This matches my experience: those of us who spent the pre-LLM years building ML models + GANs see genAI in a different light. We have a clearer view of what is/isn't possible, so we're less likely to throw it at every imaginable task expecting a breakthrough. #dataBS www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...

wsj.com

The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It

AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Anyone know how to specify the priority of a static in the __init_offsets section in a #[link_section = "__TEXT,__init_offsets"] directive? You can do it on Linux with like .init_array.PRIORITY...

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Just ordered from rock auto for the first time and holy crap we have to go back, this might be the best website still operating today

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

It hasn't happened much yet because it seems like the people making MCP slop tools are still in the phase where they tell you that's what it is but eventually we'll get to a point where software that looks normal is just incorrect sometimes unexpectedly and I don't know if we're ready for that

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

So does anyone actually know who laf-intel (lafintel.wordpress.com) is? Having a citation of just some blog name doesn't feel right to me

lafintel.wordpress.com

laf-intel

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

They just aren't doing it like this anymore god we had it so good

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I got my instant pot for $5 at goodwill and I think it might literally be the best $5 I've ever spent

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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 07/08/2025

Happy new Rust! 🎆🦀 Rust 1.89.0 has been released! This release brings you inferrred array length, new lints, u128/i128 in extern "C", NonZero<char>, File::lock, many x86 intrinsics, and much more! ✨ Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/08/07/R...

blog.rust-lang.org

Announcing Rust 1.89.0 | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Almost every night for years when I wake up whether early or normally one or both of my hands or wrists has been numb. I usually sleep on a pretty hard pillow and this week I've been sleeping on a soft one and this has not happened since. Hack unlocked?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Controversial opinion I know but Fox Stevenson rules

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I'm not really a Sabbath fan I'm too zoomer but wikipedia credibly claims this guy murdered 17 cats with a shotgun so I think I'm gonna keep it that way

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Josh Watson @joshwatson.com · 14/07/2025

A guy at work was arguing that the latest LLM models can write code they weren’t trained on and gave writing code in brainfuck as an example. I said “did you actually run these in an interpreter to confirm they aren’t bullshitting you” A few minutes later he goes, “none of them worked, interesting”

Carly in iCarly sitting in front of a computer, holding a can of soda, and looking at the screen with tight lips. The subtitle is “interesting.”

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METR @metr.org · 10/07/2025

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This reminds me I need to get some panels for my house

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Let chains absolutely fuck holy shit I love rust

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Last year Microsoft made $88 billion (that's billion, with a B) in profit on $245B in revenue. That's a 36% profit margin. The idea that they have to put 9000 people out of work in order to improve profitability is absolutely ghoulish. This is not a struggling company, they're swimming in profit.

bloomberg.com

Microsoft Makes Deep Job Cuts Across Xbox Division, Cancels Games

Hundreds of people were laid off as the company canceled upcoming games such as Perfect Dark and Everwild

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 02/07/2025

they should make longjmp2, a new and more fucked up longjmp variant

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 27/06/2025

to learn more about Jane Street's novel approach to financial engineering and its choice of tech stack, google "Jane Street Sudan Coup Funding"

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

LET CHAINS LET CHAINS LET CHAINS LET CHAINS

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Reimaged both my computers and re cloned repos. Thought I lost some work on qemu-rs but no, I had actually remembered to push it to a feature branch, please clap

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 26/06/2025

hey look on the bright side: maybe after the housing market collapses because fannie mae was handing out mortgages based on a person's $fartcoin holdings you'll be able to afford a house

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