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Lover of all things tech, design and coding! Designing/creating mobile, web apps with Rust/JS! Recently released Spux for Leptos! Building MonitorBolt.com in 2025! https://www.whitesponge.com - Blog https://youtube.com/@whitesponge - YouTube

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WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · Oct 20

I figured I should do a proper intro for anyone seeing me for the 1st time here:

Hi I'm David! I'm a software engineer in a global consultancy firm currently using Typescript for work.

I started with C++ many years ago, learnt many languages since then, and recently discovered Rust!

Say hi! :D

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WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 3d

Wow #rustlang 1.91 is here!

And aarch64-pc-windows-msvc is now tier 1!

blog.rust-lang.org/2025/10/30/R...

Announcing Rust 1.91.0 | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

blog.rust-lang.org

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 5d

I think beauty is when you get a nice balance of both hardware and software

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 6d

I didn't know hardware can be this beautiful ❤️

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 8d

I advocate for Rust so much that even my colleagues know that it's my favorite language 😂

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 9d

😂 good point

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 10d

Just building a simple mobile robot for learning! 😂

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WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 10d

I was balls deep in software.

Now I'm dipping my toes into hardware lol wish me luck 😂

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WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 11d

New toy! Guess what this is 😂

Now I wonder if I can use Rust for this lol

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 13d

I just got this delivered!

Should help for what I plan to build and for future safety reasons 😂

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 14d

It's crazy how you see people are now only discovering that you can build stuff in the CLI when some of us OG programmers have already been using it since decades ago 😂

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 14d

Ahahahaha oh boi

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 15d

The recent AWS outage have made me consider using a raspberry pi as my own hosting solution.

Well as long as I can install #rustlang on it 😂

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WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 17d

The motors and wheels have arrived!

Let's see what we can do with them 😂

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 20d

You know what I just realized?

I might not have to get a dedicated laptop just for Ubuntu if I can just do it on this Pi itself.

Sure it might not be as performant but 😂

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 22d

The goods have arrived!

Can't wait to do all sorts of things to it if you know what I mean 😉

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 21d

Apple, if you want me to upgrade from my M1,

You gotta at least show me the M5 Pro chip 😂

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 22d

The goods have arrived!

Can't wait to do all sorts of things to it if you know what I mean 😉

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MonitorBolt @monitorbolt.bsky.social · 24d

Is it meta enough if we use ourself to monitor ourself? 🤔

1st version of the core feature is built!

Now to beautify it!!

#buildinpublic #rustlang

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WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 25d

Hahaha thanks man!!

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 25d

So this might be overkill but I just made a purchase for the Raspberry Pi 5 with 16gb ram for myself as a birthday gift to myself 😂

Never owned one but I'm excited and can't wait for when it arrives!

p.s ignore the price lol I kinda got it for free using some redeemed points 😉

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WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 26d

All I really want is to become a better husband to my wife, a better father to my son, a better person in general and a better engineer too!

I'm just starting to pick up the hardware side of things ( just bought a new raspberry pi 5) 😂 !

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 26d

I just turned 40!

Today has been a big day for me as I just hit a new digit in my age.

I am really grateful for my life, for my awesome and supportive wife and son.

I am grateful for being able to do the things that I'm currently able to do.

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WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · 29d

I'm learning so much about hardware now that I'm only now finding out that desktop GPUs can outperform their laptop counterparts (of the same model) by a huge margin!!???

Which rock have I been living under 😂

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · Oct 6

Thanks for sharing about Tuxedo laptops! Just found out about them!

WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · Oct 5

If you had some spare cash to spend, would you get a Framework laptop or a System76 for linux-based development work?

If not, would you recommend any other options that also comes with dedicated GPUs?

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WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social · Oct 5

Did you know that you can travel to the past with Rust / #rustlang ?

Simply use the chrono crate like so: