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Dusty Pomerleau
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Web hobbyist • Leptos, Axum, Gel

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Is this a ZST or a zen koan?
pub struct ThereIsNoIteratorInRepetition; // False impl BitOr<ThereIsNoIteratorInRepetition> for ThereIsNoIteratorInRepetition {
November 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Is Microsoft Ok?
3 consecutive emails from Microsoft365: your microsoft 365 options corrected link: your microsoft 365 options correction - your microsoft 365 options
November 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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For reasons that I cannot fathom, my test emails are being classified as spam:
A screenshot of a gmail header showing a subject, sender, and email body: the subject Test EmailSender no-reply@test.com Thanks for signing up, Hfo0qE03!
October 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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The logo for the U.S. Department of Transportation. White text on a navy background, with a circular mark that looks like a wheel with fan blades for spokes.
October 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The same set of text shadows in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Brutal. #css
.neon-pink-text { color: #fff; text-shadow: 0 0 7px #fff, 0 0 10px #fff, 0 0 21px #fff, 0 0 42px #f100dc, 0 0 82px #f100dc, 0 0 92px #f100dc, 0 0 102px #f100dc, 0 0 151px #f100dc; } The words "Level Up" in white on a dark gray background, with white and magenta shadows creating a neon glow effect. On Chrome, the outer portion of the shadow is diffused and blended. On Firefox, the outer portion of the shadow is more distinct, like a blobby outline, and on Safari, every shadow introduces a raster effect with a visible step. The words "Level Up" in white on a dark gray background, with white and magenta shadows creating a neon glow effect. On Chrome, the outer portion of the shadow is diffused and blended. On Firefox, the outer portion of the shadow is more distinct, like a blobby outline, and on Safari, every shadow introduces a raster effect with a visible step. The words "Level Up" in white on a dark gray background, with white and magenta shadows creating a neon glow effect. On Chrome, the outer portion of the shadow is diffused and blended. On Firefox, the outer portion of the shadow is more distinct, like a blobby outline, and on Safari, every shadow introduces a raster effect with a visible step.
October 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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How's your day going?
A screenshot of my code editor, where the output is just: PolarPoint { theta: NaN, r: NaN, }, over and over, filling the screen.
September 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Just accept that you'll never please the Pokemon—all they do is complain.
BBC headline: McDonald's Japan postpones toy promo after Pokémon complaints
August 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Things you don't expect to see in a Rust crate:
screenshot of code comments, with the first sentence highlighted: // FuturesUnordered is implemented using two linked lists. One which links all // futures managed by a `FuturesUnordered` and one that tracks futures that have // been scheduled for polling. The first linked list allows for thread safe // insertion of nodes at the head as well as forward iteration, but is otherwise // not thread safe and is only accessed by the thread that owns the // `FuturesUnordered` value for any other operations. The second linked list is // an implementation of the intrusive MPSC queue algorithm described by // 1024cores.net.
August 2, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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C'mon Warner Bros, pick this up:
impl fmt::Display for SuperErrorSideKick { fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result { write!(f, "SuperErrorSideKick is here!") } }
July 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Some real Batman and Robin vibes in rustc. I would absolutely watch this Saturday morning cartoon.

(but for the record I would not have PascalCased that K, sidekick is a compound word)
screenshot of a single line of code: impl Error for SuperErrorSideKick
July 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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So much OTG in these replies :)

The Oregon Trail Generation: Life before and after mainstream tech:

mashable.com/archive/oreg...
A 5" floppy disk with a red label that says: THE OREGON TRAIL' Disk 1 © 1990, MECC All Rights Reserved HMS306-5 IBM/Tandy Version 2.1 MECC
July 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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I think I found my happy place.

"No sugar, but a bit of milk please. Thanks so much. Anyway, I'm struggling to mock user-specific state in the DB connection pool during integration tests."
A poster pinned to a cork board at a community center, advertising "Tech and Tea" sessions for seniors. There is a stock photo of a woman leaning over an elderly man and showing him a tablet.
July 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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I'm not sure what sort of model they're using to generate English docs, but it appears to treat each letter as an independent token, breaking words at random:
Apologies, this site is designed such that the text is not selectable on mobile. The intro to the docs breaks words at arbitrary locations at each line wrap.
July 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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@joshwcomeau.com Despite living here for a decade, I only just realized that the .au TLD is perfect for French Canadian names! Grab it quick :)
joshwcome.au pomerle.au
July 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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This is an outlier position, I know, but chairs are terrible for your back. By far the best position I've found is what the Japanese call seiza, with feet tucked under, which takes the excess lumbar curve away. I also sit cross-legged on a cushion to mix it up.
A low desk in front of a window, with a view of foliage outside. There is a flat cushion in front of the desk for sitting on, and a laptop with split keyboard on the desk itself.
June 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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The new completion plugin for #Neovim (blink.cmp) is really coming along! It has dramatically reduced the complexity of my config.

I've also just added support for Blink highlight groups to my theme (tol.nvim). If you're a Neovim user, please check it out:

github.com/dustypomerle...
A screenshot of a text editor with 2 files in a vertical split configuration. The code on the left is a Rust library, and on the right is TypeScript. The color highlights for the words are medium saturated with features of pastels, and the highlights for punctuation and delimiters are a brighter magenta, cyan, and yellow.
June 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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let's go
A screenshot of a terminal diff, showing the removal of 11 devDependencies and the addition of 1 (oxlint). Full text of the screenshot: devDependencies: - @eslint/compat 1.2.9 - @eslint/js 9.27.0 - @tailwindcss/forms 0.5.10 - @tailwindcss/typography 0.5.16 - @tailwindcss/vite 4.1.7 - eslint 9.27.0 - eslint-config-prettier 10.1.5 - eslint-plugin-svelte 3.9.0 + oxlint 1.0.0 - prettier-plugin-tailwindcss 0.6.11 - tailwindcss 4.1.7 - typescript-eslint 8.32.1
June 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Yeah, I don't think you can wide-mod the Alice, because it has vertical stagger, and doesn't have 1u keys at the edges. I'm sure it will still be a fun board. I'm running these:
A Planck 48-key ortholinear keyboard with off-white and blue keycaps, above a Minidox 36-key split keyboard with blue and white colorway. A Planck 48-key ortholinear keyboard with a red case and white, blue, and purple keycaps.
May 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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And collecting into:

(Vec<T>, Vec<T>)

comes from the generated impl of FromIterator using `spec_tuple_impl!()`:
impl<B, A, EB, EA> FromIterator<(EB, EA)> for (B, A) where B: Default + Extend<EB>, A: Default + Extend<EA>, { fn from_iter<Iter: IntoIterator<Item = (EB, EA)>>(iter: Iter) -> Self { let mut res = <(B, A)>::default(); res.extend(iter); res } }
May 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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So if I'm understanding correctly, collecting into:

Vec<(T, T)>

comes from the impl of FromIterator for Vec (with some specialization magic I don't yet understand:
#[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))] #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")] impl<T> FromIterator<T> for Vec<T> { #[inline] #[track_caller] fn from_iter<I: IntoIterator<Item = T>>(iter: I) -> Vec<T> { <Self as SpecFromIter<T, I::IntoIter>>::from_iter(iter.into_iter()) } }
May 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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lix.systems/faq/
Q: If Lix plans to adopt Rust, what makes it different from Tvix? Unlike Lix, Tvix is a ground-up re-implementation of the Nix language in Rust, which shares many of the same modernization goals as Lix – but also has a long way to go before it can reach feature parity (and parity in correctness) with the CppNix and Lix implementations. Lix instead plans a top-down, piecewise approach to our Rust extensions and replacements – which means that Lix already has feature-parity with – and correctness exceeding – the original CppNix.
May 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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I'm crying:
A screenshot of valid symbols in Scheme, where all of the symbols are invisible amd it looks like an empty code block, even though it actually says: foo bar baz Somewhat ironically, I'm doing this alt text for people using a screen reader, but if you go to the website with a screen reader, all of the text is present. In effect, the site author has created an accessibility issue that only affects people with excellent vision.
May 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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In a move that could only be parody, the intro to Scheme docs use CSS that hides all of the parentheses:

lips.js.org/docs/scheme-...
A webpage screenshot with the following text, but the parentheses are completely invisible: You can convert string to numbers with string->number procedure and number to string with number->string. (string->number "1001" 2) ;; ==> 9 (string->number "1001") ;; ==> 1001 The first argument is a string and the second one is the base of the number. In similar way you can use number->string: (number->string 1001 2) ;; ==> "1111101001" (number->string 1001 16) ;; ==> "3e9"
May 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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BBC is going with the "CSS as political commentary" angle, lol.
A screenshot of bbc.com Australian election results, showing the inline CSS accidentally included in the key to a figure showing the number of seats for each party.
May 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Honestly, it's not for everyone, but I've been on a 36-key layout for more than 6 years, and I do find it much more comfortable. Obviously it's a significant commitment.

I use this layout:
github.com/dustypomerle...

You sound like a productive guy, so maybe stay with the built-in :)
A Planck ortholinear keyboard and a Minidox split keyboard stacked closely in the frame. The Planck has light blue and off-white caps, and the Minidox has dark blue and white caps.
April 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM