
Hi, I'm Eric.
I’m an avid world traveler, photographer, software developer, and digital storyteller.
I help implement the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe.
Hi, I'm Eric.
I’m an avid world traveler, photographer, software developer, and digital storyteller.
I help implement the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe.
via Rust Weekly: ε-serde is an ε-copy (i.e., almost zero-copy) serialization/deserialization framework
via Boris Mann: Just got off an awesome call with Taz, founder of Guild support.
via Rust Weekly: A Rust Dockerfile boilerplate for quickly building size optimized images
via yosh: “Empathy in Open Source” by Niko Matsakis — I read it earlier today, and imo it’s really good!
via Megan Fox: If anyone was considering Kagi (premium search engine) but was put off the limits on number of searches, they dropped that entirely for most- the $10 tier is now just unlimited searches.
via rem: New blog post: “No more 404s” and how I achieved that.
via notgull: New blogpost about Rust!
via Boris Mann: If anyone on #TrainJam wins the lottery, please take me on this deluxe travel + food trip.
via Rust Weekly: I wrote a tool to print colorized Rust backtraces.
via Dare Obasanjo: A great question managers should ask in one on ones; are you venting or asking for help?
via Preslav Rachev: Something I point out in every code review I do:
via Adrianna Tan: In 2008 I started spending extensive amounts of time in Indonesia and this post I wrote back then, of being in a small town, brings back all the feels.
via Rust Weekly: Let’s Build a FIPS-Validated Rust Crypto Library
via Sarah Taber: Just got back from the coolest ag project of all time.
via Rust Weekly: allocation-counter: Count and test the number of allocations, now with more utility methods
A humorous guide to choosing a programming language …
via Peter Butler: The USPS will start shipping free COVID-19 tests again. You can start placing orders next Monday, September 25.
via Joanna Denni: There are so many really great resources I’ve come across for engineering management, it’s hard to narrow them down!
via Kent Bull: The Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation is now hosting the KERI protocol specifications.
via Tim Hosgood: The swedish phrase for TV static is “myrornas krig,” which can be translated as “war of the ants,” since there are loads of little dots moving all over the place. This is a cute fact that a friend shared with me today.
via Jakub Zalas: “Which Kinds of Tests Should I Write?” I like how nonconfrontational this post is. It’s so hard to give advice this way.
via Ben Sandofsky: With iOS 17 is now available, we dug into the big camera changes that come with it. Zero Shutter Lag, HDR rendering, and more!
via Harshil Shah: I’m so excited to announce Peak 2!
via Kevin Stewart: Death by a thousand microservices
The software industry is learning once again that complexity kills.
Interesting read on what one learns from auditing other company’s code for several years.
via Rust Weekly: A tutorial for accessing C/C++ functions within a shared library (.dll/.so/.dylib) from Rust
via Dave Polaschek: On Thursday, we stopped by the Quarai Ruins at the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, and it was pretty dang photogenic.
via LAUREN: This is an amazing breakthrough for chronic illness and looks promising as a potential cure and reversal for MS, Crohn’s, and many many more.
via ⛈️ Information ⛈️: Airbus open sourced their new cockpit font. Make it the default for all your embedded projects, because it’s REALLY good and has real testing in difficult environments!
via Liam Bigelow: Pagefind 1.0 is here! ✨
via Matt Weagle: “To change the culture, you must change the system. To change the system, you must change what you reward.”
via Matt Weagle: “But incidents can happen as a result of normal work, when everyone whose actions contributed to the incident was actually exercising reasonable judgment at the time they committed those actions.”
via Leonardo Giovanni Scur: @scouten @staltz Not a “diff,” you have to install things its way, but that is the goal of #nix the package manager, which works on both Linux and Mac.
via Johan Wärlander 🦀: @scouten @staltz I guess something like Ansible can take you at least part of the way there?
via Rust Weekly: Silt-Lua, another pure rust Lua interpreter and runtime
via Rust Weekly: set_field
: Set fields on structs by string
via Kevin Stewart:
via Alice I. Cecile: I wrote up the #opensource triage-by-controversy + community code review practices that we use for @bevy.
via Danny Lin: More people need to know about the “tabular numbers” feature that modern fonts have. Use it to make numbers to line up with a UI font (or anything not monospace).
via Kevin Stewart: Using Zig in our incremental Turborepo migration from Go to Rust – Vercel
via yosh: Gah, Sabrina Jewson’s post on Async Drop really was ahead of all of us, and we’re all still just playing catch-up.
via Sarah Perez: With Postmarks, social bookmarking is back – but this time it’s built on the fediverse
via oisin: Here’s a nice privacy thing about cars.
via Rust Weekly: Becoming a [Rust] contractor
via Rust Weekly: My Node.js is a bit Rusty: a x25 perf boost by rewriting a Node.js module into Rust with napi.rs
via Dave Rahardja: Ah yes, this is a great way to turn “Can I see your driver’s license?” into “Can you hand me your unlocked phone so I can rifle through it?” at a traffic stop.
via [Angela Preston]](https://toot.site/@AngelaPreston/111009230766814799): This is kind of cool. You put in where you are in the U.S. or Canada and it suggests plants that support pollinators in your region.
Casey Liss rejoins the program to discuss his new app Callsheet and to give David and Stephen a tour of the apps and services he uses to manage his media.
via Rust Weekly: Inside Rust Blog: crates.io Postmortem: User Uploaded Malware
via Rust Weekly: 5 Strong Opinions On Everyday Rust
GitHub: “Rust continues to top the charts as the most admired and desired language by developers, and in this post, we dive a little deeper into how (and why) Rust is stealing the hearts of developers around the world.”
via Julé Cunningham: Danish artist and climate activist Thomas Dambo spent his summer in the US creating gigantic troll-like creatures across the country out of recycled materials. Five are in Western Washington where he worked with Indigenous tribes and artist John Halliday to make sure his work respected their traditions.
via Kevin Stewart: Build a Cross-Platform CLI with Deno in 5 minutes
via smallcircles (Humane Tech Now): Yes, you can ditch #GoogleMaps now. #OrganicMaps is here. Use it while offline and feel good about a #privacy-respecting app that doesn’t suck you dry of your personal information. Based on #OpenStreetMap this app is gonna blow #Google #Maps out of the water (hopefully ;)
via Uwe Schwarz ッ�: @rauschma if you additionally want OCR, take a look at ocrmypdf (installable via brew), it can reduce file size and add OCR-data to make PDFs searchable. Combine that with an Automator-Workflow for a folder and you get a real easy way to compress and OCR all PDFs.
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