Patrick Walton

@pcwalton

Research hacker at Mozilla

San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2009

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  1. Darn, Servo got Fox News rendering properly before other news sites.

  2. Second hard lockup today due to a GPU driver crash on a brand new MacBook Pro. Please fix your drivers, Apple.

  3. Here it comes: First PR for SVG support in Servo!

  4. The lack of specification of how to place hypothetical boxes makes the CSS 2.1 spec very hard to actually render the Web with.

  5. Re (1) Mozilla does not “preside over” Rust. (2) Mozilla uses Rust a lot; if you’re using Firefox you’re using Rust.

  6. Reversing minified Adobe SiteCatalyst code to figure out why hangs: Ah, browser dev life

  7. If you’re thinking about writing a compiler plugin for others to use in Rust: (1) Don’t. (2) If you must, please keep it updated!

  8. ripgrep is making me much happier when searching through repositories. Seriously, give it a try.

  9. A thing programmers actually believe: “[In] static analysis, you can be as conservative as you like.”

  10. First time a de facto standard has originated from an HN conversation, maybe?

  11. The fix to CVE-2016-6303 (a.k.a. why C is a terrible language):

  12. ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift}

  13. Flagging Trump supporters’ “MEME MAGIC” trash comments on HN while waiting for code to compile. Nice way to spend an evening.

  14. Mac GL driver bug of the day: Calling glTexImage2D(…, GL_RGBA32F, …, NULL) on a <16x16 texture reliably blocks for 10ms.

  15. Rust is hard, but it's still beginner friendly because it makes the improbable tasks in C possible -

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