The Coded Message

I saw it first on an elevator at work-Elon Musk has been declared to be the first trillionaire, as judged by Forbes and Bloomberg Billionaires Index and other such sources. There are articles written about it and about a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech

My anger speaks, saying to whoever has wronged me through ignorance or error, especially through enforcing an unconscionable policy, especially when such policy is imagined or illegal, to you it says this: I know your behavior is your honest best, and tha

With a sigh, I acknowledge that agentive coding is here to stay, though I still think it's a bit overrated . Elon Musk, however, is more bullish. He believes that with LLMs, compilers will become obsolete, saying things like : Things will move, maybe even

So, my trusty M1 Macbook Air running Asahi Linux is, well, trusty, but it doesn't have the screen space and power I really want out of a personal workstation. So, I took a look at what Macs Asahi Linux supported, saw that M4 support isn't coming anytime s

I've gotten a fair amount of feedback on my post about LLMs and copyright , most of it expected. But I was surprised to see how many people wrote to me to inform me that copyright violation is not stealing under natural law, that stealing is an inappropri

EDIT: I fixed a little glitch where I said there wasn't syntax to do something in Rust where there obviously is. I am aware of that syntax, although it doesn't really apply in my original example, just in the simplified, minimal version I present here. Pe

Recently, at work, we've been encouraged to try out a bunch of new "AI" tools. So, I've been using the Claude "AI" app, an "AI assistant" developed by Anthropic , to help with some Rust programming tasks. I've been trying (as requested) to learn its stren

In my previous post , I talked about programming language design, and try to discern some heuristics for what features should be added to a programming language, on my way to explaining why Rust should not include inheritance as a feature. I'd like to exp

Programming language design, like API design, and computer UX design (especially for technical tools like build systems and admin systems) is a difficult form of engineering, bridging computer science and cognitive science. Sometimes, it's more art than s

In July, I described a way to make pinning more ergonomic by integrating it morefully into the language. Last week, I develoepd that idea further with the notion ofUnpinCell: a wrapper type that lets a user take an &pin mut UnpinCell and prod…