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Armin Ronacher

8 years

Fun fact: because of all the metadata, the javascript community downloads "isarray" in the excess of 100GB a month from npm. For a one liner

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

2 years

What are these NFT people smoking? How is this a future that's likely and aspirational? That sounds absolutely horrible.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

3 years

I don't want to say anything but that's not the right license Mr Copilot.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

4 years

I finally managed to automate my IKEA IDÅSEN desk. I can now make it go to my favorite position via two shell commands (stand-up/sit-down) without having to keep buttons pressed.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

5 years

I’m quite seriously considering live streaming some of my Python/Rust programming. Would people be interested in that?

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

Today in timezone madness: Lebanon had a last minute announcement of DST postponement. The Olson database complied. Now there is a dispute if it happens, and *parts* of the government reversed it. The country now has two timezones concurrently depending on who you ask.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

2 years

git commit --allow-empty is the one true universal rerun CI button

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

2 years

I think GraphQL is quickly moving to one of my least favorite technologies. Building an efficient query system for the server is almost writing a database and as a user it has a lot of rough edges. Good idea but man is it complex.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

4 years

I designed a keyboard for go programmers :P

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

2 months

Good to know that LLMs also suck at dates.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

2 years

Congratulations. Here is a link to localhost.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

9 months

Python typing makes my blood boil. How the hell does anyone enjoy that experience?

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

Every Ex-Googler will introduce Bazel at their new gig, every Ex-Facebooker will introduce Facebook Workplace. People who didn’t work in either of those companies know of those tools only because they worked with an Ex-Googler/Facebooker.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

8 years

The axle count of trains in Switzerland must not be a multiple of 2^8 of the system does not detect a train.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

9 months

IDE choice in 2023 is basically: do you want your IDE written in Java or JavaScript?

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

2 years

I have to say starting new web projects on open source technologies in 2021 is no fun. The amount of complexity that is thrown your way left and right is absolutely mind-boggling and it's completely unclear which tech is going to stick around for more than 4 years.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

Looks like GitHub rewrote it in Rust :P

The technology behind GitHub’s new code search

A look at what went into building the world's largest public code search index.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

4 years

Guess how long this was in production and wasn't spotted. A true classic.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

4 years

A hack I can only recommend: change your python startup to register true/false/null as aliases for True/False/Null on the builtins and you can copy/paste JSON into a Python console.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

3 months

The only thing as hot as AI and LLM is solvingPython packaging. :P

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

3 months

Rye's now officially in the hands of @astral_sh !

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

7 months

Let me join this next.js shitposting train. Maybe this is really where this will end up at.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

3 years

“I’m leaving GitHub because copilot uses my OpenSource code for training” is such an odd move. Anyone can fork it to there and GitHub can feed OpenSource code from anywhere to it and US copyright law permits this. I’m also pretty certain we should not strengthen copyright laws …

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

8 months

The fastapi event is secretly a Rust pitch ;)

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

I really want to know how Rust managed to become so full of drama.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

7 years

Awww. <3

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

3 months

Good diff.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

There you have it people. The only thing hotter than LLMs and AI, is Python packaging!

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

9 months

Thank you Python

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

3 years

I have reached the point where I prefer writing little scripts in Rust rather than Python mostly because making Python scripts with dependencies distributable is still such a pain.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

4 years

Open Source is hard.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

7 years

current ops status: a fairytale

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

25 days

Maybe going from master to main seems meaningless. It’s a small step and doesn’t seem impactful. But these small steps add up and they are noticeable. Having kids made me revisit my childhood through books and films I haven’t seen in years. It’s quite a contrast.

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"Changing master to main changed less than nothing. Because nothing was or is ever enough in this arena. As soon as this word battle was won, it was just on to the next and the next (and the next)."

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

6 years

I think the most bizarre thing about truly multilingual people is that they have different behavior based on the language they speak.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

Today on the orange site: “I use C because I still believe in freedom, and I think you should too”. This must be the weirdest take on using C over Rust or other memory safe languages yet.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

3 years

Python is getting so complex that i wonder if people from the C++ committee secretly joined the core devs.

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@raymondh

3 years

In #Python 's near future, you can raise groups of exceptions at a time. A new grammar feature, except*, will allow multiple except clauses to match and execute.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

I really don't find it okay that GitHub is not maintaining an officially blessed actions/create-release action and instead points me to four random actions maintained by people who I need to trust to not do anything dodgy with my credentials.

GitHub - actions/create-release: An Action to create releases via the GitHub Release API

An Action to create releases via the GitHub Release API - actions/create-release

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

9 months

Today is a very sad day. Bram Moolenaar of vim fame passed away. I feel like I grew up as a programmer with vim. He will be missed greatly.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

The irrational hate and fear of Nuclear energy in the German speaking world is so absurd.

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Sex is good but have you tried having your country shutting down its last nuclear power plants in 30 mn?

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

I know everybody hates Elon right now, but turning off 2FA makes a ton of sense. Our Twilio bill at @getsentry was quite substantial because bad actors in foreign countries abused it to rake up profits from paid numbers. Twilio has as far as I know also no solution for it.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

6 years

A customer's debug symbol fails to be processed by Sentry. It ran into the 65k character limit for a function name. Has a 140.000 character function name. Yay C++!

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

6 years

It’s still shocking to me how popular Flask has become.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

Can't get enough of that AI pope. It's just too entertaining.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

3 months

Today marks 11 years since meeting @megabulldog2 and in April it will be 10 years of marriage. Three wonderful kids later I can’t ask for a better partner in life. ❤️

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

5 years

I really like Python's tracebacks so I tried to replicate them for Rust. This is what it looks like atm:

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

7 years

Yes random indian carrier, I was talking about you.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

6 years

JavaScript. I hate you.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

@burntsushi5 @SimonSapin @rust_foundation Even as a sponsor to the foundation I'm not sure where I would have learned about this. It seems like a ridiculous policy given that a ton of projects are called "x-language" or "language-x".

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

2 months

I really feel like I might need to give a talk about why "we" (old farts) decided to program in Python a few years ago. I feel like there has been a shift in recent years and a lot of the language's benefits have been forgotten.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

5 years

My key is boken. What a geat poduct apple has ceated. And it only costs 4000 EU. Love this keyboad.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

2 years

It's 500GB a month in 2022.

Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

8 years

Fun fact: because of all the metadata, the javascript community downloads "isarray" in the excess of 100GB a month from npm. For a one liner

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

I’m not sure what is bigger: my dislike of Musk or micro services.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

6 months

Call me ignorant, but "compiler might pass by value or by reference depending on how it feels today" really strikes me as an odd language design choice.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

4 years

Last decade was a blast. Dropped out of university, started working full time, built a very successful web framework, married a wonderful woman, got two great kids and spent half of the decade with @zeeg at @getsentry where I helped built up a 15 people eng office in Vienna.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

5 years

2018 has been a really interesting year for me. We’re a family of four now, moved to our first own flat and I helped Sentry grow its Vienna office to 7 people. Never felt so busy. Hopeful to find more time for non Sentry OSS projects next year.

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@mitsuhiko

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Since the Twitter algorithm likes to pour people shitting on simple hosting solutions into my timeline: A simple Hetzner Server with a Cloudflare in front is both incredibly cheap, super low effort and very speedy for most websites.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

7 months

If you think Rust has drama, you ain't seen the React community.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

I like Rust and have always rooted for the project and community to be more inclusive and transparent. I realize that I didn't live up to those ideals myself. I am deeply sorry for the harm I have caused with my rash, immature, uneducated and frankly racist take.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

ChatGPT is so damn useful when writing technical documentation. There really is a world before and after ChatGPT for me.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

3 years

@vedang The comment there is from the famous original function in quake which it was completely happy to include in verbatim. The comment is already in the original GPL licensed version.

Fast inverse square root - Wikipedia

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

4 years

As promised I wrote a blog post about back pressure and flow control and why it's so important for code that uses async/await:

I'm not feeling the async pressure

An introduction to back pressure in systems and why it matters.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 month

The greatest trick the devrel devil ever pulled was convincing people that running servers is hard or time consuming.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

5 years

I'm impressed. Flask is the most used Python web framework in the @jetbrains python developers survey!

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

Maybe it’s Stockholm syndrome but I really like Rust’s syntax.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

3 months

It's so speeedy ❤️

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

9 months

More software should have functionality like this. Looking at you github which blasted my phone number into a screenshare session to confirm up to date 2FA.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

8 months

I'm 34 and a self-taught dropout. Programming for 20 years. Not having a degree was a conscious choice. I knew it would harm visa processes, but it also made me earn money much earlier. It's a choice, but university is definitely optional.

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I'm 24, self-taught dropout - in tech 6yrs+ - made more $ than this guy for a while - maintain open source things quite a few people like - have spoken at conferences You don't need to go to university. It's optional, and learning to learn without structure is more important.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

I just love how Python doesn't just have hundreds of package managers, but also hundreds of build tools, some of which are not compatible with each other.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

3 years

This is amazing open source library maintenance.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

2 years

Social media right now is frustrating. There is no nuance to invading another country. If you think you need to be a devil's advocate about this: go fuck yourself.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

2 months

They installed a firmware update on our building’s elevator and now you can unselect floors. Why is this not a thing everywhere?

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

3 years

This is the closest I probably get to American space travel since as non US citizen work at NASA or SpaceX is completely off limits for me as far as I know. Kinda cool.

Sultan Iman ✙

@naminatlus

3 years

Flask is used by @NASA as for command controller for #PerseveranceRover cc @mitsuhiko 🚀 this is cool

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

2 years

Today I learned you can exhaustively pattern match in argument positions in Rust.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

3 months

Some of the responses in this thread to uv are incredibly frustrating. If the Python community wants to describe itself as welcoming, then it's not holding up to that standard there.

Uv - another Rust tool written to replace Pip

I’m not associated with the project, I just found out about it today, but I think it is interesting for the Python packaging world to reshare here: uv: Python packaging in Rust Inparticular it has...

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

4 years

Asking the Twitter oracle on the preferred programming language.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

4 months

I really feel like the Rust community suffers from a collective Stockholm syndrome when it comes to compile times. They are bad. I know it's hard work to fix this, but the compiler is very far off of what good productivity demands.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

Over the last 72 hours I had a ton of very productive conversations about Python packaging. This very much seems like a properly solvable problem.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

6 years

Thank you @gvanrossum

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

2 months

hot take: unmaintained dependencies are not nearly as much of a big deal as some folks make it out to be.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

2 years

“Computer says no” paired with “our margins don’t allow for human review” is the worst thing about modern cloud services.

Dr. Emily Dolson (@[email protected])

@emilyldolson

2 years

Uh, @googledrive , are you doing okay? This file literally contains a single line with the number "1".

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

5 months

All I want for Christmas is a leaner and less crazy competitor to k8s.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

4 years

This blog post about mercurial’s Python 3 port is definitely worth reading.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

7 months

This brain dead hate against 15 minute cities makes no sense to me. Why would anyone not want one?

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Somehow it's now official Government policy to stop my Council making sure I have a GP, dentist and shop too close to my home.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

11 days

I unironically love this.

GitHub - borgo-lang/borgo: Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go.

Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go. - borgo-lang/borgo

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@mitsuhiko

3 months

An interesting aspect of this is that Python got away with single-solution dependency trees for years. It means that you cannot have two versions of the same library in the dependency tree. This model stopped working over the last 3 years.

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@markopolojarvi

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I don't understand how Python devs stay sane. Every single time I try a Python project, it has dependency issues that take anywhere from 5 minutes to 30 minutes to resolve. It doesn't matter if the project uses pip, poetry or whatever, nothing ever works out of the box.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

3 years

I'm unreasonably excited about the first working WASM crash in @getsentry with DWARF debug info.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

4 months

Y’all might think @dhh knows nothing and is needlessly contrarian but I think there is something behind both cloud avoidance and single tenancy for databases. The time feels right.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

5 years

I really appreciate that the Rust community is full of bright people but (at least so far) managed to stay clear of building up a personality cult around them.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

10 months

Adyen has a great country selector.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

Ugh. That's a lot of stars fast.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

3 months

With uv being that quick, the next version of rye will automatically sync on add and remove. A commonly asked feature.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

4 months

Apple really is making a mockery of the DMA. Quite frankly the chutzpah of these large tech companies is starting to annoy me. Imagine any other industry behaving like this. They all believe they are above the law.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

6 years

A story from the pre-github days: There are software releases I made on that cannot be downloaded any more because I hosted my own infrastructure and I stopped doing it. Gone forever. So when you switch from github to self hosted, think of that as well.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

5 years

We put a new service written in rust into production and I think we over-provisioned the machines slightly.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

4 years

That's one way to intro an email.

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@mitsuhiko

1 year

This is the man that sells you self driving vehicles.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

1 year

@pmarca A small API change had massive ramifications. The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. Will ultimately need a complete rewrite.

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@mitsuhiko

1 year

Since self-replacing executables are a thing, but surprisingly annoying to implement on Windows, I wrote a crate for it. Allows a tool to self-uninstall or self-update. - Why surprisingly hard? Well look.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

5 years

Nice to see that Flask is used at Netflix:

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@mitsuhiko

1 year

We had an incident recently related to grouping algorithm migrations causing excessive load. I swear we looked at that code for an hour not finding the issue (eventual fix: ). Was curious and asked ChatGPT if it would spot the problem. It did.

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