My preferred language is F# and its discriminated unions work fine for my purposes. Based on what little I know of Rust, F# DU's look to be mostly equivalent to Rust enums.

I build line of business applications. For me, it’s the defaults that matter: Immutable data Structural equality Composition And the core building blocks: Functions Sum types Pattern matching Records That’s what I need to model business processes.

Backdoors in telecommunications systems are a bad idea. They will be used for nefarious purposes. Every. Damn. Time.

Not quite true for iPhones. I had Amber Alerts turned off, but Public Safety Alerts were still on, so my phone went off this morning.

Are doing a greatest hits album?

if they unseat Ted Cruz I will play a free solo show in Austin and the set list will include Golden Boy, Riches & Wonders, Comandante and whatever other oldschool bangers ppl want

I made a feed for the posts of @bigcases.bot.law because I think it will be a better experience for me than having the posts in my main feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Abolish the death penalty

Bluesky is actually an Umberto Eco chamber, as it tends to warn about the signs of impending fascism and its associated dangers, rather than, you know, to debate and encourage them.

I’m in this skeet and I don’t like it.