You’ve moved! From a datacenter on us-east1 into my house! You’re currently sitting by a window, looking at the beautiful Galician rain. That’s right, this blog is now officially self-hosted.
Read moreEnglish | Español Alastor is my girlfriend’s cat, he’s 2 years old and the smallest in his litter. Alastor isn’t violent, he doesn’t pick fights with other cats or dogs, and would never hurt a human.
Read moreNowadays Rust is mentioned in lots of places. Being that Rust is the “new” kid on the block, setting new trends throughout the tech and programming world, it’s sometimes hard to have a grasp of where exactly Rust is used.
Read moreRust Clippy, Rust’s official linter has announced that age verification software will be included as soon as Rust 1.97.0. This comes with no surprise as Rust has historically standed with a firm policy of user safety.
Read moreZig migrated from GitHub to Codeberg, this sent waves through the free and open source software ecosystem. It set a precedent for which big projects could migrate from GitHub, and people listened.
Read moreThis will be a short one. This blog is changing domain registrar, since I initially registered this goose.love (lovely domain, I love having a domain registered with only one word, and having a @goose.
Read more[!memo] There’s a video of this! This post is the script for this talk I gave at RustChinaConf 2025, the pacing may be a bit off if you’re only reading the text version.
Read moreA long time ago, the Clippy kingdom was suffering from the darkest of epidemics; our changelog wasn’t formatted as it should. In an ocean of tears, a hero arose, a not so important issue with the name of #10847
Read moreOpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT, although that bit is obvious) has unveiled ChatGPT Atlas. Their new chromium-based browser with ChatGPT integrations right out of the box. Asceticism is a lifestyle characterized by self-discipline and a withdrawal from worldly pleasures.
Read moreDuring two releases (1.88.0 - 1.90.0) we paused the introduction of new features into the Clippy linter. This means that we held hostage all lint-adding pull requests, all false-negative fixing pull requests, ALL new configuration options for user-facing features and overall, anything that added new complexity instead of taking it away (with the exception of bugfixes that focused on removing false positives, those were permitted to add complexity.
Read moreIf you know anything about me, is probably that I make Clippy as fast as I can. I love making programs faster both because (a) it’s a puzzle, because (b) I don’t think that we should expect users to have access to high-end hardware in order to compile a program and because (c) the energy footprint is smaller, which satisfies my ideological fight against waste.
Read moreHi dear reader; the other day I got approached by the Open Source Initiative to make a post in their website talking about being a maintainer, what my experience was, what I would say to contributors, and what are the hidden hardships of being a maintainer.
Read moreYou probably know the phenomenon known as The loudness wars, which has a way cooler name than what it actually is. The loudness wars is just producers making the music we hear progressively louder in order to stand out among other music.
Read moreNote that I’m not the person with the most expertise in Rust contributions, but I’ve done my fair share of PRs, bug reports on the whole Rust compiler ecosystem. (261 at the time of writing)
Read moreA vital piece of technologies in modern days is the hashing function, a function that takes in some input and returns a non-meaningful and unique output. (As you can see, there’s no pattern)
Read moreThe Rust organization is starting an initiative for “project goals”, in which every team submits a list of goals that they’d like to achieve in the coming months. I talked with my team on Zulip and got our hands dirty drafting a list of goals for 2024’s second half.
Read moreI’ve done several drafts of this post, and never settled on one in particular. They just got lost in the weeds. So today I’ll write the post that will finally be published talking about a project I’ve been keeping private for a while: The Clippy Performance Project!
Read moreThe original version is available here (Spanish, PDF) As I promised in the last post, I’m here to (kinda late) deliver a text I made about a year ago! (I’ll try to keep the styles from the PDF hehe :3)
Read moreToday’s post is more of an announcement than of a post in itself, but it comes with lore, so be prepared. The stories 📖 I have a few short stories written by a younger self that I’d like to be “immortalized”.
Read moreI wasn’t planning on publishing this, but I just saw some other people talk about this and thought “why not?”. Google lets their employees choose one person (outside of Google) that they think were doing great things in the world of open source.
Read moreDepending on when you discovered this blog, you may notice something different here… That’s right! A new theme. On the moment that you’re reading this, the new theme will already be deployed.
Read moreToday, November 22nd, 2023, I have decided to set up a BuyMeACoffee profile. It’s pretty primitive yet, but hey, if someone doesn’t want their money to go through Microsoft’s hands but still support my work, that’s now an option.
Read moreThere’s this phenomenon on our society which makes relevant people get glorified in weird ways. A big chunk of current humanity sees these people almost as gods in their craft, and I think it’s pretty weird.
Read moreEvery single image, effect and filter except the original cat picture (see below) is generated using the image of a cat. No other asset is used. Yep, that background is just the same cat.
Read moreFear of change is what drives a section of this society backwards. Conservativeness is, by definition, the desire to maintain the current state of something (in this case, society). It tends to distort this innocent fear into hatred as things change and their users contemplate the existence of new things.
Read moreLife was simple, a few years ago. I was (am) a student, I didn’t have really any friends, the people I knew were because they were friends from school. We were friends because they were the people I saw every day, 5 days every week.
Read moreMaybe you’ve noticed that the domain name of my blog and about page isn’t blyxyas.github.io anymore, that’s because I decided to upgrade my internet level and buy my own domain name :D.
Read moreI’m a frequent YouTube user, I’ve been watching videos as early as I can remember. If you are also a frequent YouTube user, you’ve probably seen content creators’ title style changing in real time.
Read moreAn IDE theme is the group of colors that represent all elements in your editor. There are a lot of themes available in online marketplaces, you can even make your own!
Read moreA few days ago I started playing Celeste, the tight platformer about climbing a mountain and meeting cool people in the process. Today we’ll talk about how Celeste achieves having so much personality and how it really changed me, on a personal level.
Read morerustdoc is the tool used in the Rust ecosystem to generate documentation from the code. Generating documentation from code isn’t a new concept, but I find that rustdoc’s implementation is the best one yet.
Read moreTic-Tac-Toe is a cool game when talking about Game Theory. It’s an adversarial game (where both players have opposite goals), in which a decision from each player influences the whole game state.
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