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I've been working on so many projects in 2025, I thought it was important for me to make a recap, if only just to clear my head. There are many, many, many things to go through and we don't have a sponsor today, so I'm gonna start right away with facet! f

About two weeks ago I entered a discussion with the docs.rs team about, basically, why we have to look at this: source type="image/jxl" media="(max-width: 900px)...

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There are several Rust quizzes online, including one that's literally called the "Unfair Rust Quiz" at https://this.quiz.is.fckn.gay/ , but when I was given the opportunity to record an episode of the Self-Directed Research podcast live on the main stage

A couple months ago I made a loudness meter and went way too in-depth into how humans have measured loudness over time. source type="image/jxl" media="(max-width: 400px)" srcset="https://cdn.fasterthanli.me/content/articles/making-our-own-spectrogram/fast

On September 8 2025, around 13:00 UTC, someone compromised Josh Junon's npm account (qix) and started publishing backdoored versions of his package. Someone noticed and let Josh know: source type="image/jxl" media="(max-width: 400px)" srcset="https://cdn.

My watch has a "Noise" app: it shows d B , for decibels. video controls playsinline preload="none" loading="lazy" width="3840" height="2160" data-kind="media" data-input-path="/content/articles/the-science-of-loudness/apple-watch-decibel-meter.mp4" poster

There are news! source type="image/jxl" media="(max-width: 900px)" srcset="https://cdn.fasterthanli.me/content/img/reimena/coolbear-idea2add1...

I do not come to you with answers today, but rather some observations and a lot of questions. The weird glitch Recently I was editing some video and I noticed this: source type="image/jxl" media="(max-width: 400px)" srcset="https://cdn.fasterthanli.me/con

I have long been at war against Rust compile times. Part of the solution for me was to buy my way into Apple Silicon dreamland, where builds are, like… faster. I remember every time I SSH into an x86_64 server, even the nice 64-core ones. And another part