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Andrew Lilley Brinker

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👨🏼‍💼 Principal Engineer at MITRE ⚠️ CVE Handyman 💻 www.alilleybrinker.com/blog 💬 Opinions are mine, you can’t have them

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · May 5

Becoming the Rust, Jujutsu, atproto guy at work

Starburns from the show Community with his star-shaped sideburns, top hat, and pet bearded dragon.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 1d

Sure, it's still got its warts and limitations, but I am enormously impressed at the progress in the language itself, in the ecosystem, and in the standards and implementations. Just enormous complexity with so many implementations, deployment contexts, and users.

Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 1d

I've been a mostly-Rust guy for 10 years, but every time I check back in on JS I am amazed at how much easier so much of it is.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 1d

JavaScript has gotten so much better than when I started back in 2005, it's amazing

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 1d

It can only good happen

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nrc @ncameron.org · 2d

I have availability for Rust consulting or coaching. More details soon, and yep my website needs updating. But if you're considering adopting Rust, want your team to use Rust more effectively, or need a drop-in staff engineer, get in touch!

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 2d

The slow death of Bivens remedies is a travesty and sets the stage for wanton abuse of constitutional rights by federal officials

Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 2d

Unfortunately the Supreme Court has for decades been chipping away at the ability for anyone to receive a remedy for violations of constitutional rights by federal officials

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 2d

Price of Rot confirmed $832

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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 2d

The team formerly behind RubyGems has come together to launch a new gem server for the Ruby community!

gem.coop

I am *super* excited about this!

gem.coop

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 2d

Also, the "it's just a reaction meme" justification is nonsense that ignores the content of the meme and what it means in context.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 2d

Too real. This kind of toxicity is why I don't like /r/Dodgers

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 2d

This, basically

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

no no no you don't understand. it wasn't a death threat. it was a *deniable* death threat. deniable!! why are you banning me!

Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 2d

I'm not really familiar with Link. From comments reacting to the ban, he seems like he was generally doing good stuff. That said, he still made a post that looks a lot like a death threat or encouragement of violence against the CEO of the platform, which is disqualifying for keeping your account.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 2d

... yeah, having looked at the post in question, it definitely reads as a threat. Quote-replying to someone's post from a thread about how they're being harassed, with a picture of someone else moments before they were killed and a comment about "consequences." I mean, come on.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

Visiting diplomat on Parks and Recreation, played by Fred Armisen, saying "believe it or not, straight to jail".

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

Teams can and should establish a standard for formatting and then enforce it with tooling, but IMO the value of this is in severely reducing aesthetic debates, not in the formatting itself.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

Separate from Rustfmt, IME the majority of complaints about code formatting are aesthetic, though they may be delivered in the guise of arguments about readability or maintainability.

We are engineers producing tools, not art, and engineers' aesthetics often become a distraction.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

Yes, I am taking issue with whining, not with having opinions about formatting. Rustfmt *is* configurable. It's also an open source project to which people can contribute, or which people can fork if there were sufficient community interest in doing so.

Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

I don't think that's a fair characterization of my position

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

No, this time it's Linus complaining about how rustfmt handles imports, which has kicked off a new round of Rust community discourse of complaints about rustfmt

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

Lord knows they love to be twirling toward freedom

Twirling, Twirling, Twirling Towards Freedom! (The Simpsons)

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

Linux is best understood not as a unified project but as a feudal project controlled by a hierarchy of lords.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

Linux is best understood not as a unified project but as a feudal project controlled by a hierarchy of lords.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

It makes sense that Linux, as a tree of petty fiefdoms whose local lords have wielded total control over formatting, wouldn't like new norms with auto-applied and CI-enforced formatting rules.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 5d

We've internalized that there are only three numbers, 0, 1, and infinity.

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