July

via Niléane (@nileane@nileane.fr): Attached: 1 image

Unread, long a favorite RSS client on iOS and iPadOS, has finally landed on the Mac with version 4.0 — a fully native AppKit/SwiftUI app that’s fast, customizable, and supports Feedbin and other sync services. Nice to see continued investment in native Mac RSS readers as the open web and fediverse feeds keep growing.

The Choluteca Bridge in Honduras survived Hurricane Mitch intact — but the hurricane moved the river out from under it. Mike Bowler uses this as a memorable parable for long delivery cycles: you can build exactly the right thing perfectly and still miss, because the world changed while you were building. The antidote is shortening the time from idea to in-use: smaller slices, less work in progress, fewer dependencies, and real collaboration.

via Thomas (@wheezle@hachyderm.io): Been writing code in the sans-IO style for a while now and really enjoying it so I wrote up a blog post about it! #rustlang

Firezone’s Thomas Eizinger explains the sans-IO pattern: implementing network protocols as pure state machines that never touch a socket or call Instant::now themselves, leaving all IO and timing to the caller. The payoff is fast, exhaustive, deterministic tests and a way to sidestep the “function colouring” problem — async ends up confined to a thin outer layer instead of infecting the whole stack.

via Natalia Panferova (@natpanferova@mastodon.social): Excited to share that @hishnash and I have just released our new app, Strolly!

Strolly generates fresh looping walking routes near you each day, using on-device pathfinding so your location data never leaves your phone. You can steer it toward areas you like, flag segments to avoid, and get time estimates tuned to walking, jogging, or running — a nice antidote to always taking the same route.

via yosh (is out of office) (@yosh@toot.yosh.is): New blog post: Ergonomic Self-Referential Types for Rust

Yosh Wuyts sketches what it would take to make self-referential types in Rust genuinely ergonomic: 'self lifetimes, in-place construction, an !Move marker in the type system, and safe phased initialization without the option-dance. It’s an early exploration rather than a finished design, but it’s a useful map of how several proposed features could combine to replace the awkwardness of Pin.