Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson

I haven't received my author's copies yet, but Amazon just notified me that the print edition of Advanced Hands on Rust is now available. a.co/d/fKDDReZ You can also buy the ebook from Pragprog right now, 50% off with the coupon code "save 50" #rust

@JLarky This may be a strange idea, but many people genuinely love reading books! (Paper or ebook, e-readers are a godsend with poor eyesight).

Coding by hand is like reading books: some do it out of necessity, some just to show that they are cool

@almighty_lisp I like to make the book in colour, and regularly preview it in greyscale to make sure it will work for that also. Acrobat has some good tools for finding colours that won't print properly. Lately, I've been getting good results with this: wickedlanternstudio.com/mockingbird-ed…

YOU GUYS THINK A PHYSICAL BOOK SHOULD BE BW OR COLOR

@cheaf25master Quality

Vibe coders' worst nightmares: - Rust - Docker - AWS Console - Smart contracts - Payment integrations - Debugging production What did I miss?

@ImLunaHey It depends! For a very detailed, well specified task terra medium is plenty. Sol if I want it to solve anything. Explore agents on Luna low, and various reviews (ada compliance, drift from request, slop signs, adversarial, etc) on lower models (even mini) to keep cost manageable.

im trying out codex, which model should i be using? im use to opus 4.8 and fable 5.

@Zinny_Edmund I haven't got to use Fortran for a few decades.

Programming language you learned once but never touched again?

@Zinny_Edmund Both. I can't imagine pursuing a career that isn't even vaguely enjoyable if you have the choice (plenty of people don't get to choose, sadly)

Be honest: - Do you code for fun? - Or to get paid? - (Or both?)

@ImLunaHey I use a mix of codex and opencode (with DeepSeek and Openrouter). Codex is decent, 5.6 so far hasn't required as much damage control (some models try and improve things in passing), and less cleanup. You do need to match model/reasoning to task or it'll eat all your tokens.

im tempted to get a codex sub so i dont have to wait for my claude code reset..

@ImLunaHey RustRover and Zed. Helix when I'm remotely ssh'd. Also DataGrip for some database stuff.

what IDE is everyone using nowadays?

@timClicks I tend to go with explaining Result<Option<>> to more experienced groups. The difference between "can't talk to the database" and "there is no matching row" usually clears it up, and shows a benefit over just null for either case.

It take a lot longer to explain the nuance of Result vs Option than it should. I think that's because Option<&T> is a null pointer in disguise.

@jordankdalton A couple of hours ago! Still very enjoyable, and sometimes you need to be *really* sure that a model didn't try to helpfully "improve" file format, memory layout or careful locking (all the frontier models I've tried consistently break this module in subtle ways)

When’s the last time you wrote code without AI?

@goingforbrooke There's Pyrite in the hills!

is anyone selling gold in this gold rush or is it all just pickaxes?

@ImLunaHey Benchmarking is built in (cargo bench), but there's a few benchmark harnesses you can use. I personally recommend Criterion, it's very thorough and can store results over time.

i know rust has testing built in but does it also have benchmarking built in or do i need something external for that?

@BatsouElef "You're absolutely right, I shouldn't have invaded Poland. You told me not to, but I did it anyway...." - and thus ends the reign of King Claude I. In all seriousness, politicians are non-deterministic enough!

Could AI govern a country? 🌐

@brockpierson Yes, started with slackware in 1994. I tend to keep some other systems around for customers who want them, and had a foray into FreeBSD for a while.

You ever used Linux as your daily driver OS?

@iGottZ I only briefly used Silverlight. It wasn't entirely terrible (but I'd survived the original .net betas and Flash, so my pain tolerance is pretty high!)

@herberticus Had some fun with Silverlight too, or were you spared from this nightmare tech?

You get all the hours back you sank into one programming language. Every tutorial, every debugging night. Which one do you refund?

@pragdave It's definitely faster than it used to be. 2.0.x line on my old Pentium meant "time for the pub"

I'm building a Linux kennel from source for the first time in 20 years. Rabbit, meet hole.

June's Top 10 BestSellers Advanced Hands-On Rust by @herberticus link below

@sidtwtts I largely switched in 1995 (also to FreeBSD), using Mac/Windows if work requires. Open source OS & environments, I can fix it, extend to what I find comfortable, retain privacy and not suffer through "it's like a start menu from 1995, but we forgot how to program and used node"

Linux users, what made you switch—and what keeps you from going back?

Reminder: if you post "my thing v0.2 released" and link to a changelog - great! Including a quick "what is my thing"? - awesome, now potential users might click!