👋 hello, I build research software at PwC & am a @colorado.edu CS grad student. Code tinkerer for 10+ years; into distsys, PL/types, aviation, & practical AI.https://bsky.app/profile/damienstanton.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienstanton.com/post/3mibmgckvgk22Hi atproto experts - if I want to turn my little static website into something that runs on a PDS instead of github pages, what's the best way to do that? It's currently an mdbook. I'm looking to write articles with tex and code listings. Ability to live-run Rust or other code examples is a bonus.30 Mar 2026 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:bypc2xqppgppue4jadyzd3ys/app.bsky.feed.post/3mibmgckvgk22https://bsky.app/profile/damienstanton.com/post/3mi7h4fyzzc2qThis has been my take for a little while, too. Not just for C++, either. The idea of "tech stack momentum" doesn't hold enough weight against other tradeoffs when one has powerful coding agents and good harness specs. Everything can (and many things should be) bespoke rewrites using ideal toolsets. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Mar 2026 15:20 +0000at://did:plc:bypc2xqppgppue4jadyzd3ys/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi7h4fyzzc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienstanton.com/post/3mi2ocshjhk23One of the neat things about languages like Go, Elixir, and Gleam is that they amortize the cost of concurrency for you, in a sense. Well-designed, the overhead of the runtime's management of that concurrency saves you (or your coding agent) the "mental cost" of mutexes or async function colors.27 Mar 2026 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:bypc2xqppgppue4jadyzd3ys/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2ocshjhk23https://bsky.app/profile/damienstanton.com/post/3mhtygtrnpk24Swift on Android is something to watch closely. Fun times! [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Mar 2026 01:58 +0000at://did:plc:bypc2xqppgppue4jadyzd3ys/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhtygtrnpk24https://bsky.app/profile/damienstanton.com/post/3mgx7oqrrs22qSad to hear that one of my computing heroes, Tony Hoare, has passed away. RIP. Here are some nice words by Lance Fortnow: https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html?m=113 Mar 2026 15:20 +0000at://did:plc:bypc2xqppgppue4jadyzd3ys/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgx7oqrrs22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienstanton.com/post/3mfz57qkngs2uFor anyone who wants/needs to use Claude Code but don't have access to an Anthropic subscription, I've used this to good effect with both personal and enterprise GitHub Copilot accounts: https://github.com/ericc-ch/copilot-api01 Mar 2026 16:16 +0000at://did:plc:bypc2xqppgppue4jadyzd3ys/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfz57qkngs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienstanton.com/post/3mebvnwusxc2hI like this thread. In particular, the notion of a dynamic, RL-driven "world monad" sort of thing is a good one, and it works no matter what your (likely domain-specific) tools/context/specification language are like. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Feb 2026 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:bypc2xqppgppue4jadyzd3ys/app.bsky.feed.post/3mebvnwusxc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienstanton.com/post/3mdusr665pk23I think this really spot on and highlights an interesting facet of generated code; it takes Rob Pike's old saying "a little copying is better than a little dependency" up an order of magnitude. Especially when you get these giant, unintelligible vibecoded messes presented as "production quality". [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Feb 2026 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:bypc2xqppgppue4jadyzd3ys/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdusr665pk23