Lucretiel
@lucretiel.me
Neophile. #ADHD. #rustlang at @datadoghq.com. #boardgames. Mercator Projection Apologist.
You know things are going great when the answer is "have you considered writing your own libc"
January 29, 2026 at 9:21 PM
You know things are going great when the answer is "have you considered writing your own libc"
By far the most surprising thing I learned this week is that this is not a phishing email but is in fact real homework I've been assigned
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
By far the most surprising thing I learned this week is that this is not a phishing email but is in fact real homework I've been assigned
Really want to know what the keyword generics / “just make it generic over sync / async” crowd will make of this.
Async is an entirely different execution mode! It isn’t just annoying sugar for sequential procedures!
Async is an entirely different execution mode! It isn’t just annoying sugar for sequential procedures!
December 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Really want to know what the keyword generics / “just make it generic over sync / async” crowd will make of this.
Async is an entirely different execution mode! It isn’t just annoying sugar for sequential procedures!
Async is an entirely different execution mode! It isn’t just annoying sugar for sequential procedures!
It gets SO MUCH MORE holy shit
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It gets SO MUCH MORE holy shit
Literally me every time someone mentions that panic=abort brings down a whole web server instead of just the one connection
December 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Literally me every time someone mentions that panic=abort brings down a whole web server instead of just the one connection
See also this excellent passage from this excellent article www.vox.com/2015/8/27/92...
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
See also this excellent passage from this excellent article www.vox.com/2015/8/27/92...
Still cannot believe that this war crime of an interface made it into the C++ standard library
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Still cannot believe that this war crime of an interface made it into the C++ standard library
I have a canvas print of this beautiful photo I took of a sunset in Manhattan
November 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I have a canvas print of this beautiful photo I took of a sunset in Manhattan
AT LONG LAST
I FIGURED IT OUT
AN ELEGANT FIZZBUZZ
I FIGURED IT OUT
AN ELEGANT FIZZBUZZ
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
AT LONG LAST
I FIGURED IT OUT
AN ELEGANT FIZZBUZZ
I FIGURED IT OUT
AN ELEGANT FIZZBUZZ
Finally, a demonstration of something I've always believed: American and European timestamp formats are both wrong but Europe is more wrong
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Finally, a demonstration of something I've always believed: American and European timestamp formats are both wrong but Europe is more wrong
Completely true story about me
October 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Completely true story about me
Yeah I agree. I don’t really find this convincing cause it feels very UNLIKE every other stdlib trait
October 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Yeah I agree. I don’t really find this convincing cause it feels very UNLIKE every other stdlib trait
Tfw you write `b'n' => '\n'` in your parser and trust the compiler to manifest an 0xA0
September 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Tfw you write `b'n' => '\n'` in your parser and trust the compiler to manifest an 0xA0
I like when people are like "oh Rust is too fuckin complicated" when their shitty languages can't even get the basics right
September 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I like when people are like "oh Rust is too fuckin complicated" when their shitty languages can't even get the basics right
My proc macro, talking to the optimizer: "yeah I think I'm gonna clock out early today, you've got this, right buddy?"
September 17, 2025 at 5:32 AM
My proc macro, talking to the optimizer: "yeah I think I'm gonna clock out early today, you've got this, right buddy?"
Output from proc macros is a hell of a drug
September 17, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Output from proc macros is a hell of a drug
This note is just 100% lies, right? Like pure copium shit here
September 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This note is just 100% lies, right? Like pure copium shit here
More inroads in the Great War against the boolean type
September 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
More inroads in the Great War against the boolean type
I've talked about this in the past. Seems like Zig might be filling that niche these days; they're doing some really remarkable stuff with original toolchains.
September 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I've talked about this in the past. Seems like Zig might be filling that niche these days; they're doing some really remarkable stuff with original toolchains.