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Senior web dev by day and Rust lover all the time, Jacob will gladly shill Rust and Vim to anyone who'll listen! Beyond programming, I eat cheese, make good use of my slushy machine, and uhhh... I have other hobbies right?
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View allHow I read technical books and documentation
January 18, 2026•1,227 words
Don't skip out on a book just because it's long!
Committing to learning Go in 2026
January 16, 2026•514 words
Time to learn Golanguage
Rust's `'static` doesn't imply memory leaks
January 11, 2026•646 words
Leaking memory is one way to get a value living for `'static`, but it's not the only way
It takes 26 yottabytes of RAM to typecheck a union of Safe Integers
August 25, 2025•1,054 words
Sometimes `number` is good enough