Sam Schlinkert @schlink@octodon.social

Random reminder to use a password manager if you aren't already! It'll help you stay safe online by using long, unique passwords for each service you use.

While LastPass or 1Password are great choices, I prefer KeePassXC

Official site: https://keepassxc.org/

Official quick-start guide: https://keepassxc.org/quickstart/

My getting-started guide: https://sts10.github.io/2017/06/27/keepassxc-setup-guide.html

I just started 'Next Gen' on Netflix and this movie is def gonna hit me hard, but in the meantime, some programming advice and syntax!

Do/did any of y'all read the comic that it's based on, 7723?

OK today's Rust question:

Is there an equivalent to Ruby's `send` method? I want to pass a String (or str) to a function and then run that string as a method call on a struct within the function.

My _guess_ is that this is something I'd use a trait for(??), but I'm not quite there...

"I Believe Her: When I was in high school, I faced my own Brett Kavanaugh." (via The Atlantic)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/me-too/570520/

In #Rust, can I assign a field _after_ I define an instance?

I think I'd like to create a method on &self to calculate the value of this field... but I don't want to re-calculate the result every time I need to access the value.

rolling in to the weekend like a *squints* millimeter-size water droplet on a precisely flat, very hot, nonabsorbent surface

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/science/leidenfrost-effect.html

"'A sacred act?' one roommate said, laughing. 'Girl, you sure don’t treat it like one.'"

"But I do. We perform sacred acts for, with and among strangers all the time. We give charitably to people we don’t know. We pray in churches with people we don’t know."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/style/modern-love-he-asked-permission-to-touch-but-not-to-ghost.html

To Restore Civil Society, Start With the Library

"Poor and homeless library patrons don’t even consider entering [Starbucks and other coffee shops]. They know from experience that simply standing outside a high-end eatery can prompt managers to call the police. But you rarely see a police officer in a library...

"It’s worth noting that “liber,” the Latin root of the word “library,” means both “book” and “free.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/opinion/sunday/civil-society-library.html

omg Rust 1.29 (stable) features a new cargo command called `cargo fix` THAT ACTUALLY FIXES YOUR CODE FOR YOU

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/09/13/Rust-1.29.html

I just want an iPhone that's the size of the iPhone 4, waterproof/drop proof, and lasts 40 hours on a charge. Is that what an updated SE would have been?

Watching the Apple event (mostly for work purposes)... kind of fun to imagine if Canonical/KDE/System76 had flashy-ish, polished events like this for big releases