Jeff Martin @cuchaz@mastodon.technology

@shadowfacts 😲

JetBrains is looking for feedback on Kotlin. Fill out the Kotlin Census if you want to be heard.

https://kotl.in/census

h/t to @jwildeboer@birbsite for the post.

Also, I finally figured out how to make those nifty alt-text thingies for the images. Enjoy!

The second edition of _The (ANSI) C Programming Language_ by Kernighan and Ritchie apparently has a fun easter egg about recursion.

In other news, manually soldering SMT Optoelectronics without breaking them is hard.

@shadowfacts Ah, how could I have forgotten! Thanks for the reminder.

I got a label printer as a gift. So of course this is the first thing I printed!

@shadowfacts I tried JB Mono for a bit and then didn’t like it just about immediately. But then I did a little searching and found one called Fira Code. I started using that one, and I like it a lot actually. The ligatures are weird at first, but I started liking them after a while.

@shadowfacts I use fastmail and it’s super great! Love it!

PSA: SHA-1 was broken before, but now it's VERY broken. Don't use it for security.

"By renting a GPU cluster online, the entire chosen-prefix collision attack on SHA-1 costed us about 75k USD. However, at the time of computation, our implementation was not optimal and we lost some time (because research)."

https://sha-mbles.github.io/

@shadowfacts Maybe this?

I'm getting back into writing some more Rust code after a few months of not really touching that particular codebase. I've been working mostly in Java and Kotlin in the interim, and a little bit of Python too. But rustc is really a different beast! It makes you think really differently about how to express your program to the computer. It's a kind of refreshing change actually.

Here's one of the other projects I'm working on at work: A real-time web interface for a Cryo-Electron Microscope.

This dashboard view shows the results of micrograph analyses as they trickle in from the compute cluster.

Hooray science!