Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go
Memory Safe No garbage collector, no manual memory management. A work in progress, though. Simple Syntax Familiar syntax inspired by various programming languages. If you know one, you’ll feel at home with Rue. Fast Compilation Direct compilation to native code.
Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them
19 hours ago ShareSave ShareSave BBC Ruth Clegg,Health and wellbeing reporterand Holly Jennings “It’s like a switch that goes on and you’re instantly starving.” Tanya Hall has tried to stop taking weight loss medication multiple times. But every time she stops the injections, the food noise comes back. Loudly. Weight loss jabs, or GLP-1s, have […]
I can’t upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
Microsoft won’t let you dismiss the upgrade notification So support for Windows 10 has ended. Yes, millions of users are still on it. One of my main laptops runs Windows 10. I can’t update to Windows 11 because of the hardware requirements. It’s not that I don’t have enough RAM, storage, or CPU power. The […]
You’re Not Burnt Out. You’re Existentially Starving
“Those who have a ‘Why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘How’.” ― Viktor Frankl quoting Friedrich Nietzsche, Man’s Search for Meaning Let me guess: Your life is going pretty darn well by any objective metric. Nice place to live. More than enough stuff. Family and friends who love you. But you’re tired, burnt […]
Logging Sucks
Your logs are lying to you. Not maliciously. They’re just not equipped to tell the truth. You’ve probably spent hours grep-ing through logs trying to understand why a user couldn’t check out, why that webhook failed, or why your p99 latency spiked at 3am. You found nothing useful. Just timestamps and vague messages that mock […]
Get an AI code review in 10 seconds
Here’s a trick I don’t see enough people using: Add .diff to the end of any PR URL and copy&paste into a LLM You can get an instant feedback on any GitHub PR. No Copilot Enterprise. No browser extensions. No special tooling. That’s it. Example PR Link: https://github.com/RahulPrabha/oldmanrahul.com/pull/11 Add .diff to the end: https://github.com/RahulPrabha/oldmanrahul.com/pull/11.diff Copy […]
Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe
Garmin has confirmed the first emergency use of its Autoland system occurred on Saturday in Colorado. “Garmin can confirm that an emergency Autoland activation occurred at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield, Colorado,” the company said in a statement Sunday. “The Autoland took place on Sat., Dec. 20, resulting in a successful landing. We look […]
ELF Crimes: Program Interpreter Fun
December 21, 2025 For reasons I don’t even remember, I was reading about the details of the ELF executable format, and stumbled across the program interpreter functionality used for dynamic linking. Immediately I was struck by one of the more cursed and yet simultaneously pedestrian ideas I’ve had, but we’ll get back to that. For […]
Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
WalletWallet — Create Apple Passes for Free Free and works in browser A simple utility to convert physical barcodes into digital passes for Apple Wallet®. Entirely free and runs directly from your browser. 1 Enter your membership or loyalty card barcode data. 2 Configure the appearance and titles for your pass. 3 Download and open […]
E.W.Dijkstra Archive
(photo ©2002 Hamilton Richards) Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was one of the most influential members of computing science’s founding generation. Among the domains in which his scientific contributions are fundamental are algorithm design programming languages program design operating systems distributed processing formal specification and verification design of mathematical arguments In addition, Dijkstra was intensely interested in […]