Innes Anderson-Morrison https://hachyderm.io/@sminez on mastodon https://sminez.dev I'm a software engineer who spends probably more time than he should writing my own tools. You can see what I'm up to at https://github.com/sminez (he/him)https://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3m7zcxpzeuk2hTook me long enough, but v0.4.0 of ad is now up on crates.io! 📦 🦀 https://github.com/sminez/ad/releases/tag/0.4.0 #rust #rustlang https://crates.io15 Dec 2025 09:28 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7zcxpzeuk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3m7wp24i7vs2aOK, so I've been playing around with cargo-fuzz for the first time this weekend, and I just need to double check something. It's called "fuzzing" because of the sound your fans make when you run this thing, right? /s #rust #rustlang14 Dec 2025 08:26 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7wp24i7vs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3m5nrn2aa7c23I wrote an introduction to the fun little crate I've been working on recently in a blog post. If you've ever looked at regex and thought "gee, I wish this could do more" then take a look and see what you think! (The idea itself is from Rob Pike in 1987) https://www.sminez.dev/match-it-again-sam/15 Nov 2025 08:28 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5nrn2aa7c23https://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3m3uewtcb2c2iYesterday I found myself needing an "iter_at_least_once" method on Rust iterators and I was a little surprised to not find it in the sea of methods from itertools. I've not needed this behaviour before (that I can recall) and its not particularly complicated to implement but it got me thinking...23 Oct 2025 12:39 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3uewtcb2c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3m2gwpymhhc2uQuick update on where I'm at with github.com/sminez/penrosx The ffi layer has been torn apart and rewritten compared to what I had back in April and I've got scratchpads working now after wiring in the ability to query properties from windows. Still got several bugs to sort but it's looking good!05 Oct 2025 10:55 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2gwpymhhc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3m272d5pgkk24Always good when the options available to you are: 1. String parsing from an ffi debug repr 2. Using an API that's been marked as deprecated for over a decade 3. Casting undocumented void pointers How's _your_ morning going?02 Oct 2025 07:38 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3m272d5pgkk24https://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3lyzdzfru5k23If you use a Mac and are interested in helping me out with doing some testing of the OSX port of Penrose, keep an eye on this pinned issue in GitHub where I'll be sharing updates of how things are progressing: https://github.com/sminez/penrose/issues/334 #rust17 Sep 2025 07:50 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyzdzfru5k23https://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3lybekcc6fs2bI managed to get an 18% speedup for syntax highlighting in my text editor over the weekend, mostly thanks to making some improvements to the underlying gap buffer implementation, but also a fair amount of "wait...why on earth am I doing _that_?" thrown in there.07 Sep 2025 18:56 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3lybekcc6fs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3lxyn4bvd7s2oSo close...04 Sep 2025 07:35 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxyn4bvd7s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3lxq2y7pjdk2eManaged to make multiple performance improvements to my text editor this weekend after finally getting round to adding support for LSP based completions and formatting 🎉 I've also had a user report a nasty crash coming from busted utf8 handling in the handwritten gap buffer implementation I have 😬31 Aug 2025 21:49 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxq2y7pjdk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3lwqhvh2zt22iAfter a full day of shouting "first try!" each time I tried to get something working (and failing) yesterday, I've sat down this morning with a fresh cup of coffee and indeed managed to get it working first try 😂19 Aug 2025 08:15 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwqhvh2zt22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3lwmhc62acc2dOh boy...exhibit $n+1 of the ADHD issue of heading out to the shop to get something because you need it to cook dinner, only to return home and find out that you have 3 of the damn thing already in a cupboard you forgot to check 🤦‍♂️17 Aug 2025 17:54 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwmhc62acc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3lwbcc3cnq22xA little bit of a bumpy experience (I assume because they've got a LOT of new users atm) but I've just migrated ad to Codeberg 🎉 codeberg.org/sminez/ad (now for the rest of my repos and then updating meta-data for cargo...) https://codeberg.org/sminez/ad13 Aug 2025 07:25 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwbcc3cnq22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3lw5npb3dok2oI've been wondering about this for a while but the announcement today has been the tipping point. So, what's the right alternative to GitHub if I want to move my projects somewhere else? I'm happy to pay / donate for something that isn't hellbent on being a front end for gathering training data...11 Aug 2025 20:39 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw5npb3dok2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3lvqvfdoffs2gThe initial results of the decode ME study have just been released and they're well worth a read. A link to the pre-print of the paper is included in the announcement post. https://www.decodeme.org.uk/initial-dna-results/06 Aug 2025 18:52 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvqvfdoffs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/sminez.bsky.social/post/3lvgrfn5xas2a@jamesmunns.com I've just been catching up on @sdr-podcast.com and listening to the episode on sans-io and async. I preface this with "here be dragons" but you might find this coroutine crate I put together interesting 🙂 https://github.com/sminez/simple_coro02 Aug 2025 18:14 +0000at://did:plc:tekgkda3yqclufcbfbuobe5y/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvgrfn5xas2a