Eric Moritz (he/him) @ericmoritz@social.coop

I think programmers are afraid of planning because they're in denial that 99% of our job is taking data from one place, transform it, and put it somewhere else.

Can we fast forward 6 months when Rust's is ready to take over the world? As it stands, the web story still feels a bit too unstable to start praising it to co-workers. #rust #rustlang

Is there a free open source version of Google Home? I want to be able to control Harmony and Smartthings with my voice

What a great article about how we've failed at web development: https://sonniesedge.co.uk/talks/dear-developer

I suspect that even more people are coming to the fediverse soon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16774271

I don't miss Facebook. The people I'm close with are on Signal and I keep tabs in a active, private way.

On FB, we passively keep tabs and no one really knows we care enough to pay attention to their lives. Comments often a battle of wills and ego rather than an opportunity to reach out.

My public life is now on public venues like Mastodon and Twitter where there is no illusion of privacy. I keep my secrets off those platforms.

Nice! "RustBridge is a workshop focused on getting underrepresented people with a background in another programming language to learn Rust and join the community." https://rustbridge.github.io/ #rust #rustlang

In this example, it is impossible to access the value outside of a lock.

For instance, I'm trying to convince a coworker to use a higher-ordered function to protect access to a value that needs to be locked.

https://gist.github.com/ericmoritz/992ddd2d96901728e3f315114fc5926d

I'm an imperfect programmer. If there's a away to structure an API or use a compiler that saves my butt, I'm going to use it. That's why I really like Rust. Rust saves my butt (or it will if I ever use it in prod)

Ha, I just got "Test of the emergency broadcast system" on my phone. We live in the future.

After I removed the cruft, my accomplishment seems less significant. :/ Meh, whatever. I'm still proud of myself. I finally feel like a rustacean!

I built a simple CLI in Rust to generate a Markdown version of the Bullet Journal Monthly Log page. Because... of course I did. I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of lifetimes. https://github.com/ericmoritz/bullet #rustlang #rust

I couldn't sleep last night because I was thinking about Rust's ownership system. I like that everything is so explicit. Rust never copies data unless you tell it to. That's a nice relief from other languages where you're never really sure if a function call copies the data.

We had one of those moments, my wife said, "Did you see what I shared... Oh fuck you're not on Facebook".