Hi frendz, and music, with Fantômes.

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• McSweeney’s: I’m being censored, and you can read, hear, and see me talk about it in the news, on the radio, and on TV.
• [fr] Le Usul de la semaine est bon.
• SMBC: Math function jokes, Kids.
• Tech:
  • Vice: Amazon sends ‘Vote NO’ instructions to unionizing employees. Slowclap. HN.
  • jwz: "Stop adding Bitcoin as a checkout option like it's not a planet-killer".

Hi folks, and music, with Nubya Garcia.

On the news,

• Tech:
  • Reminder: ‘Smart’ TVs track everything you watch, Roku streaming devices default to scary privacy. Disconnect them!

Nerds!

This blag used to be spat out by a static site generator written in Python!

This blag is now spat out by a static site generator written in Rust, "a language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software" !

Both are dope!

These days I like Rust a lot!

You should totally give it a try and see for yourself if you like it too!

"Why the rewrite?" Because as I learnt Rust, I looked for a project to get my hands dirty, and my head tilted sideways when I thought about this blog's generator: under-engineered, untested, exploding into a million shiny sputtering sparkles everytime I touched a screw. No better way to practice a new language than to rewrite a {small, known, broken} evil!

Nope, I won't publish the source, as 1. it would need a good amount of generalization & configurability work to be broadly useful outside of my narrow use case, and 2. I have zarroo desire to maintain yet another open-source static site generator and answer your bug reports 😁. There are already nineteen bajillion excellent ones under the sun, including a great one in Rust and using the same templating engine: Zola!

Aaaand apart from THANK YOU RUST COMMUNITY, I have nothing to write about Rust, it's totally all the things you read about it on Hipster News, and more! But, happy to chat about it IRL!

::<❤️👋>! On that note, here are ten scraps of rust for your ears:

Bonjour bonsoir. This week's music is GoGo Penguin (thx Marianne), and an awesome Radiohead cover from Kelly Lee Owens:

News news news:

• [fr/qc] François Desrochers: Ne versons pas un sou dans ce qu’il reste de Bombardier.
• [fr/qc] Graffici : Cette lutte que nous perdons contre l’analphabétisme.
• SMBC: Lion autocracy.
• Tech:
  • DF: Google’s iOS apps, which still haven’t been updated since early December (when Apple started requiring clear "App Privacy Facts"), are now warning users they’re out of date. Slowclap.

Hola. Music, with wonderful new Notwist, and James Ferraro (thx Chris).

On the news,

• Scott Alexander: WebMD and the tragedy of legible expertise, 👏👏👏.
• Tech:
  • jblow: The problem with the web.