miniblog.

Text to speech systems seem to have largely avoided the uncanny valley effect. I've encountered robotic sounding voices but it's way less unsettling than bad CGI. I'm not sure why this is. Maybe looking at faces is just way higher bandwidth so more things can go wrong?

A funny side effect of building software in Rust: my machine OOMs much more during development. I'm not entirely sure why. I think Rust makes it easy to allocate data quickly, and sooner or later you write an infinite loop when coding.

One interesting side effect of software productivity increasing: libraries can become more idiosyncratic. It's easier than ever to release important libraries as an individual. Single-maintainer projects inevitably have more personality -- for both good and bad!