PolyWolf

New blog post: "Running Man (2025 film)"

https://wolfgirl.dev/blog/2026-04-05-running-man-2026-film-/

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guy next to me on the airplane is trying to extoll the virtues of ChatGPT as a trip planner to his girlfriend and she is not having it

almost fell for a tourist trap: i thought there was a photographer doing candids with a large-format camera w/ bellows, but upon closer inspection it was just a digital camera with elaborate cosplay. disappointing!

happily puttering along on my silly project when i unexpectedly bump my head into the NP-complete part of it. whoops

tried to draft a blog post but i used 1000 words to even introduce the problem...

RE: @PolyWolf@social.treehouse.systems

booted into Arch Installer USB, drives showed up + mounted just fine, no issues found besides some missing EFI variables, rebooted into firmware interface and yep sure enough it's back working now. phew!

in some ways this is more scary tho, means it really is my BIOS crapping out, will look to purchase a new computer once I land a new job yep

btw happy tdov everyone hope ur hanging in there

aw frick aw darn aw shoot aw crapbasket

turn computer on -> decrypt LVM volume successfully -> enter password -> "a i missed a character, guess I'll wait for it to load the prompt again" -> full minute passes -> "huh guess something's wrong, i'll try ctrl+alt+fn trick" -> still nothing -> "power button?" -> regular press doesn't work so i hold it down to try booting again -> UEFI screen -> no boot entries detected -> "UH OH"

boot volume isn't encrypted so very unclear what's failed here. reallllly hope it isn't the drive itself though fortunately I have a very recent backup + git commit so I lost an hour of work at most. still sucks to have to deal with...

As of this morning, I have been let go from my current position. 3 years of experience with #Typescript / #ReactJS & #Golang , effectively a lot more with #Rust due to all the hobby projects. Looking for something with any of those, pretty good at learning on-the-job too, either Remote, in NYC, or on United States' east coast. Resume available upon request. #GetFediHired

designing some (hopefully) high-performance concurrent datastructures. i feel so powerful rn

Apple Music has gone from "bad looking" to "bad at playing music, just in general" for me.

idk what exactly is causing it but, after a couple hours of listening, it starts to stutter real bad, like every 0.5-0.1s bad, which is just unlistenable. It's either that app or MacOS because quit + restart the app fixes the issue.

Too bad their library is so huge...

"300ms clean builds 100ms dirty builds" my ass did NOT comprehend how long fetching things from the internet takes (like 20ms per file), and also how long it takes to save/load 60MB from disk (like 100ms each way on my drive), and also how bad "tokio::sync::Mutex with a bunch of waiters" could be (extremely).

Going fast is not normally a thing I have to think about too hard with #rust but when I want to go this fast, with this much data, from a cold start, I guess I have to ya!

Plenty of architectural improvements left in the tank:

• lazy-load large objects instead of eagerly (this should save big on disk IO in dirty case)
• threadpool for javascript work instead of N threads (pretty tricky but almost definitely worth it)
• file-watching daemon (saves big on disk IO for database & file hashing, but fairly complex)

I was naive to think "in n out quick 15 minute build system", but this is fun regardless :3

chainsaw man good ending 👍

LinkedIn connection request message: "[...] Tried you over email, but guess now is not the right time (or my scraper has bad data). [...]"

straight-up admitting they're using scrapers is a bold strategy, Cotton

RE: @PolyWolf@social.treehouse.systems

Fruits of my labor: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/16751

Thisn's a tricky bugger, no idea how more people haven't run into this (surely my reproduction must be flawed in some way??), at least I have a workaround for now (set branch to master, fetch & build, reset back to main).