Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026there are a couple of warts in rust where every time i have to write the same boilerplate again, i write an angry comment too. every time. i used java for a long time and that's made me very sensitive to boilerplate. if there's one "normal" way to do […] [Original post on messydesk.social] 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026I don't know what everyone's complaining about 101 1
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026there are a lot of different ways you could spell "apt list-versions", but "apt-cache madison" was not in my first 1000 guesses. this toot sponsored by: vscode pulled in a buggy version of electron that sets all ux elements to be circles, and the only fix […] [Original post on messydesk.social] 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026why, BBC? none of your friggin business is why! step off! 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026british food is similar enough to real food that every once in a while i get tricked because i let my guard down. like buying a pack of "cinnamon buns" from M&S and finding out they're clearly just dinner rolls with some icing on top 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026wow, it wasn't enough for "the bloodhound gang" to make terrible music, they also had to be jerks in real life too 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026@melvian i'm still enjoying coding in melvian code (i bought the 1.0 last year). if you're still working on it, i have a feature request. :) on linux with retina displays, i find myself wanting a weight about halfway between regular & bold. the regular weight tends to look thin to me as it grows 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026@jbcrawford my favorite example of this: when i was a kid, TN replaced its name on license plates with "bicenTENNial" and hoped anyone out of state would understand now imagine how confusing this looked when you were from washington county 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026my response to the 1password boilerplate zuckpology, in case anyone wants to crib from it: 001 1
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026we do this every year. the neighbors have never said a word about it (because they already think we're nuts) 100 1
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026if your layout engine does this, into the sea with you 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026i am here to announce we have reached 100% memory safety by ceasing to produce memory at all 1612 12
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026for some reason, the authors have chosen to paywall this paper away where nobody can ever read it but this is my jam today: "On the Design of Segmented Arabic Numeric Display" […] [Original post on messydesk.social] 024 4
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026i did not expect this to be so decisive! yay! it seemed like there was a lot of dissent about this in the past year, but i guess as usual, it turned out to be just a few cranks who were much louder than everyone else 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026i couldn't resist so i also implemented it in simple gates without abstraction 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026having fun implementing and simulating a brent-kung adder in the unfortunately-named "Digital" it even has unit tests and maximum path length! 110 1
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026i have my own shorthand i prefer (2nd image) 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026this graph makes it look like "node:sqlite" is roughly as fast as "better-sqlite3" in running my queue tests 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026there's some site named "socket dev" that makes snap judgements about javascript packages without explaining any of its logic my "nightcoral" package has a quality of 99% (wow, amazing... but why?) unfortunately it's a security risk because it uses the word "fetch" in a log line 011 1
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026sounds like a YOU problem, bucko! 🤣 (always cracks me up that the AI-pilled assume they are in the majority, because they only talk to other AI-pilled) 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026i got this working and i am SO chuffed you can write an anonymous iterator (function), filter it, and sum it, python style 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026i forgot how shitty a microsoft "apology" is. wow. 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026and now the peephole optimizer has gotten good enough that it's starting to mock some of my test cases 100 1
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026hahaha my (very primitive) peephole optimizer has gotten smart enough that it can sometimes eliminate entire statements because their results were constants that were loaded and discarded 000 0
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026the year is 2030. the two major parties are the hippies and the nazis. it is the 4th year of the linux desktop. 010 1
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025in honor of pkd's birthday, here's the quote i use to test graphics code on retro projects 020 2
Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025hahahaha gee i wonder why nobody's talking about or reading this what could it be what could be the problem 000 0