Bryan Cantrill

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  • Loved Selma 2 Jun 2020

    I had taken my kids to see DuVernay's superlative Selma years prior, and I had heard about 13th (and I had recalled my wife saying she wanted to watch it), but it was – like many things – "in the queue."

    bcantrill.dtrace.org 2 Jun 2020

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  • Recommends 13th 2 Jun 2020

    I'm not going to spoil any more of it for you; if you haven't already seen it, you need to watch 13th – and you need to watch it now.

    bcantrill.dtrace.org 2 Jun 2020

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  • Recommends The Soul of a New Machine 10 Feb 2019

    Since reading it over two decades ago, I have recommended The Soul of a Machine at essentially every opportunity, believing that it is a part of computing's literary foundation – that it should be considered our Odyssey.

    bcantrill.dtrace.org 10 Feb 2019

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  • Loved Rust 18 Sept 2018

    Let me close by offering a sincere thanks to those in the Rust community who have been working so long to develop such a terrific piece of software – and especially those who have worked so patiently to explain their work to us newcomers.

    bcantrill.dtrace.org 18 Sept 2018

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  • Recommends Rust koans 18 Sept 2018

    I did work through the Rust koans, which I enjoyed and would recommend for the first few hours with Rust.

    bcantrill.dtrace.org 18 Sept 2018

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  • Recommends rustlings 18 Sept 2018

    Check out rustlings. I learned about this a little too late for me; I wish I had known about it earlier!

    bcantrill.dtrace.org 18 Sept 2018

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  • Recommends New Rustacean 18 Sept 2018

    Check out the New Rustacean podcast by Chris Krycho. I have really enjoyed Chris's podcasts, and have been working my way through them when commuting or doing household chores.

    bcantrill.dtrace.org 18 Sept 2018

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  • Recommends Programming Rust 18 Sept 2018

    not only did I buy the canonical reference (The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols and community contributors), I also bought an O'Reilly book with a bit more narrative (Programming Rust by Jim Blandy and Jason Orendorff).

    bcantrill.dtrace.org 18 Sept 2018

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  • Recommends The Rust Programming Language 18 Sept 2018

    If you were as I was and are contemplating diving into Rust, a couple of pieces of advice, for whatever they're worth: I would recommend getting both The Rust Programming Language and Programming Rust. They are each excellent in their own right, and different enough to merit owning both.

    bcantrill.dtrace.org 18 Sept 2018

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  • Disliked Dreaming in Code 11 Nov 2007

    And amazingly enough, if you insist on looking at the world through a bucket of shit, the world starts to look an awful lot like a bucket of shit: by the end of the book, Rosenberg has left the lay reader with the sense that we are careering towards some sort of software heat-death, after which meetings-about-meetings and stickies-on-whiteboards will prevent all future progress.

    bcantrill.dtrace.org 11 Nov 2007

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