zack (in SF)

Revamped the gratuitous explosions and particle effects to the code editor I'm building And added sound effects! (Sound on!)

Whenever I meet someone I try to be as high energy and excited as possible because there's nothing more boring than meeting someone unexcited and low energy

Thanks @FarzaTV for spending your Sunday night at Nautilus!

Zig made a really good design decision to make the pointer dereferencing operator postfix so it could be easily chained But for some reason it made `try` prefix (unlike Rusts `?`) which makes not chainable and ugly

hey @github, why did you delete zackradisic’s (@zack_overflow’s) account and can you un-delete it?

Reading the React source is harder than reading the webkit codebase or the linux kernel

I wonder why JS bundlers decided to invent a new name and call it "tree-shaking" I feel like the traditional term, dead-code elimination, is way more descriptive

Zig will very annoyingly emit compile errors for unused variables, parameters But it won't for unused imports, which IMO is far worse than unused variables

I spent the whole day trying to fix a bug in Bun that @jarredsumner helped me fix in 5 minutes of explaining the problem to him

Sometimes I miss Rust's iterators so much I feel like a caveman when I have to write a for-loop by hand

TIL C++ lets you put return types in both directions (why?)

This is 100% a skill and tooling issue The real speed and productivity boost comes from running and orchestrating multiple coding agents at once Claude Code enables this (Cursor doesn't) and I don't think most developers really know yet how to micro >1 concurrent agents