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Aug 17, 2025 at 08:05
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The Matter protocol is excellent for puns. "Does it Matter? It doesn't Matter."

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Tried `just` (the task runner) today, and I really like it. npm has scripts, but `just` works anywhere. Editor integration is also excellent: you can get by with Makefile highlighting, but in Emacs you can even run everything interactively! https://github.com/casey/just
GitHub - casey/just: 🤖 Just a command runner
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Apr 16, 2023 at 03:53
Thoughtful article about building older software with Nix: https://blinry.org/nix-time-travel/ It's striking how a project that does so much excellent work on build reproducibility still has some build errors in this scenario. Bitrot is scary.
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Nov 13, 2022 at 10:10
Is there any way of doing tagged references in safe Rust? I've been looking at tagged pointers (the crate https://docs.rs/tagged-pointer/latest/tagged_pointer/ looks excellent) but it gives you back a raw pointer. I'm not sure if you can create a safe wrapper for references using tagged pointers.
tagged_pointer - Rust
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