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Thomas Zahner

thomas_zahner@mastodon.social

<p>Software Engineer, Rust programmer 🦀<br />Interested in modern technologies, FOSS and Linux. When I&#39;m not sitting in front of the computer, you can find me on the climbing wall, doing other sporting activities or making music.</p>

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    #SilentSunday

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    Back home from #fosdem. Great talks, lovely people and cool stickers. We now have lychee stickers! Thank you @nlnet and @NGIZero for printing the stickers and for supporting lychee in the first place.

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    Thanks to multiple train delays and cancellations on my way to #fosdem I found the time to write a new #blog #post about reinventing the wheel and a chess engine I wrote a few years back. https://thomaszahner.ch/posts/reinventing-the-wheel/

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    I do get that maybe Rust has some advantages over Zig. But I&amp;#39;m not sure if a single vibe coded commit/PR containing 1 million additions is a good solution.. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412 Meanwhile GitHub has issues even loading the PR page and its comments.. #ai #slop

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    What an interesting week this was, with so many lovely people and interesting discussions in Utrecht :) #RustWeek

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    Google is not just becoming evil but also enshittified to the point of uselessness. Not only is the generated response bad and useless, they also don&amp;#39;t care about my English language headers and thus disregard the open and standardised web. Noticed as I had to test if this post really does reflect the current state of Google: https://mastodon.social/@jaffathecake/116651245828941765 At least I learned how to properly pronounce &amp;quot;intelligence&amp;quot;.

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    Just woke up to 5 vulnerability alerts (4 high severity) of the openSSL Rust crate. Now I&amp;#39;m even more thankful we&amp;#39;ve made the switch to rustls in lychee. I&amp;#39;ve only seen advantages so far. The transition was totally smooth, and now we have faster, more stable and apparently more secure TLS. Thank you @djc, @ctz et al. for this amazing piece of software! #rust #openssl #rustls

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@mre/115961331115686641 Thank you @mre for motivating me to start blogging in the first place :) I feel that writing a blog post also helps you to understand yourself (and the thing you are writing about) better. For example, since writing the mentioned post, I understand much better what had bothered me and why. Writing forces one to think.