Patrick Walton

@pcwalton

Research hacker at Mozilla

San Francisco, CA
pcwalton.github.io
Joined November 2009
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  1. Oct 14

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

    7 retweets 50 likes
  2. Oct 11

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

    1 retweet 16 likes
  3. Oct 7

    A new blog post on parsing bindings for JS:

    7 retweets 16 likes
  4. Oct 4

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

    3 retweets 41 likes
  5. Oct 4

    New Video! A Modern Editor Built in Rust by

    7 retweets 9 likes
  6. Oct 4

    New Video! Opening Keynote by &

    18 retweets 14 likes
  7. Oct 3

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

    3 likes
  8. Oct 3

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

    10 retweets 24 likes
  9. Sep 30

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

    3 retweets 7 likes
  10. Sep 29

    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!

    3 retweets 14 likes
  11. Sep 29

    as a language for high performance GC implementation:

    12 retweets 16 likes
  12. Sep 28

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

    10 retweets 33 likes
  13. Sep 27

    The web is the platform.

    With XULRunner, Web Runtime and B2G gone Gecko is no longer a platform. It is the back end of Firefox.
    2 retweets 21 likes
  14. Sep 27

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

    3 likes
  15. Sep 23

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

    12 retweets 39 likes
  16. Sep 22

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

    83 retweets 86 likes
  17. Sep 23

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

    145 retweets 176 likes
  18. Sep 19

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

    7 likes
  19. Sep 15

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

    3 retweets 12 likes
  20. Sep 10

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

    21 retweets 46 likes

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