Mandar Vaze

Did you know that if you sneeze and fart at the same time... Your body takes a screenshot.

My wife thinks it's weird that I stare at the window during a heavy rainstorm. It would be a lot less weird if she'd just let me in.

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After learning (and I’m still learning) basics of #rust , I decided that I need to work on real world project to get better understanding of the language and face real problems Introducing snb- Superfast notes from the terminal Originally published here: microblog.desipenguin.com/post/announc...

joby was wondering, but, why did i even try

Interviewer: why should we hire you as a waiter? Me: For starters, I bring a lot to the table.

Have just released dynosaur v0.2.0, dynosaur is a Rust crate that lets you use dynamic dispatch on traits with async fn and methods returning impl Trait. Try it out, report errors and give us feedback. github.com/spastorino/d...

> Scientist's Definition of Success Common definition of success: reaching a desired outcome. Scientist's definition: *Learning something new*. If you learn something, you haven't failed. Great quote by @neuranne.bsky.social on How I Think with @nickmilo.bsky.social.

Waiter: I'm glad you enjoyed your dinner. How did you find the steak? Me: Super easy. It was right next to the potatoes.

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A hacker got into my bank account and left me a note: "Please save more money, this was a complete waste of my time".

Vim is based on shortcuts. When I discovered that and played around, I felt numb and a little stupid, having not learned the shortcuts much earlier. I realized there was a keystroke to get to any specific position I wanted. It felt liberating, moving my cursor with the precision of a surgeon.

Installed #linux #mint on my laptop I’ve been using Linux on my old MBP since November of last year. I started with OpenSUSE After using it for a month or so, I switched to Tuxedo OS 4 Originally published here : microblog.desipenguin.com/post/linux-m...

52 seconds of cinema

📻 We bought this radio for our kitchen, for the perfect color coordination, and because it has one of the greatest user interfaces of all time!? I mean just look at this

@zicon.no blog.zicon.no/marmite.html here you mentioned that your Art blog (still) runs on Hugo What theme do you use for your Art blog ? (With Hugo) I also want to publish my art (Nowhere near as cool as yours, still..) but not able to find good option (Hugo theme, or otherwise)

This morning, I accidentally changed the GPS Voice to “Male." Now it just says, “It's around here somewhere. Keep driving."

The highest compliment from someone who disagrees with you is not “You were right.” It’s “You made me think.” Good arguments help us recognize complexity where we once saw simplicity. The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.

There was a post on #linkedin about how asking #deepseek to list states of India is not answered. But it is not entirely accurate Read the details here: microblog.desipenguin.com/post/deepsee...

picking up the pace on my job search for 2025; I have 12+ years of Android dev experience (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, NDK, etc, specialty in architecture), looking for staff-level roles, remote / hybrid in the Bay past work @ Twitter, Notion, Airtable, Slack hmu if you know anyone who's hiring!

My new car has a button for everything. There is even one that says, "rear wiper". I'm still afraid to try that one.

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

Recently, I re-listened to a podcast episode where they discussed about constraints. Everyone thinks that constraints are bad. But having some constraints may be good. Originally published here : microblog.desipenguin.com/post/constra...

Punchcard love note from my dad to my mom circa 1968.

#rust script may be better than rustc because one can define the dependencies in the “script” itself Originally microblog.desipenguin.com/post/rust-sc...

My wife told me, "Don't get upset if people call you fat..." You're much bigger than that.

My toxic trait is telling people I'm up for anything when in reality I mean not after 8 pm, food should be involved, and it also depends on the weather, the parking

💡 #firstworldproblem

#rust: When `rustc` Beats Cargo for quick trial code Recently, I needed to try some functionality (of getting user’s home directory) Setting up a throw away project via `cargo new` is certainly possible but seemed overkill. Originally published here : microblog.desipenguin.com/post/rustc-o...

The fool who at least knows when to keep his mouth shut may not be so much of a fool.

I bought an impressionist painting of some flowers, but when I got back home the cat scratched it. Now I'm trying to sell it as a Clawed Monet.

Why Pigeons Make Bad Nests: A defense of pigeon aesthetics

After you die, the last part of your body to stop working are your pupils because... ...they dilate!

I asked a guy at the station when the next train was coming. He said, "Have a look online!" I said, "That's a bit dangerous isn't it?"

Consider this #Python code: x = 100 for i in range(10): x = i ** 2 print(x) What is printed? Answer: 81. Wait, isn't x local, inside of the loop? Shouldn't it be 100? Nope — indentation ≠ scope. Inside of a loop, without a function, you're still in the global scope. Questions?

If you have gone thru @lernerpython.com 's `Local Vs Global` module (Just like I did recently) then you would know this already 😀 store.lerner.co.il/view/courses...

If you have gone thru @lernerpython.com 's `Local Vs Global` module (Just like I did recently) then you would know this already 😀 store.lerner.co.il/view/courses...

Need help putting together a format string in #Python #Pandas? Check out the site strfti.me, an interactive tool that makes it easy. (It works with a variety of other programming languages, too.)

"Computers don't do what you want them to do. They do what you tell them to do." Someone said that to me many years ago, and it has stuck in my mind — both as a programmer, and as someone who teaches programming for a living. Indeed, I often use it with my students! Feel free to pass it forward...

When a cougar gets so old she needs a hearing aid, she becomes a Def Leppard.

I tried to use my grocery store loyalty card to scrape my windshield. But I only got 20% off.

I have been using Helix as an editor, not as an IDE. Recently, I’ve been programming in #rust Helix is also written in rust. So it is natural that it supports rust LSP rust-analyzer But I wasn’t getting auto completions. What was the issue ? read -> microblog.desipenguin.com/post/auto-co...

This will never get old 🤣

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

When I was a kid bedtime was 9 pm. l couldn't wait to be a grownup so I could go to bed anytime I wanted. Turns out that is 9 pm.