Bryan Cantrill
Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.
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Selma Loved
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 2020-06-02
13th Recommends
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 2020-06-02
The Soul of a New Machine Recommends
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 2019-02-10
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Rust Loved
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 2018-09-18
Rust koans Recommends
I did work through the Rust koans, which I enjoyed and would recommend for the first few hours with Rust.
bcantrill.dtrace.org 2018-09-18
rustlings Recommends
Check out rustlings. I learned about this a little too late for me; I wish I had known about it earlier!
bcantrill.dtrace.org 2018-09-18
New Rustacean Recommends
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 2018-09-18
Programming Rust Recommends
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 2018-09-18
The Rust Programming Language Recommends
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 2018-09-18
Dreaming in Code Disliked
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 2007-11-11