Jon's Miscellany

Also available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_zp82fYrGw. Questions and answers session from January, 2026. Timestamps [@0:00:00] Introduction [@0:01:44] Marriage and kids plans [@0:03:26] Have you tried Helix editor? [@0:06:10] Interview questions for Rust developers [@0:13:19] How did you and your girlfriend meet? [@0:15:31] Claude Code usage at Helsing [@0:22:29] Thoughts on Moj...

Also available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw88-0ofBs0. Questions and answers session from January, 2025. Timestamps [@0:00:00] Introduction [@0:02:42] What’s your stand on “the AI stuff”? [@0:06:51] Have you had to do a “LeetCode” interview? [@0:09:52] How can I actually finish projects I start? [@0:12:53] What is your opinion about nix and NixOS? [@0:16:48] How do you view the...

Also available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diCEj3F3itc. Questions and answers session from May, 2024. Link list Discord: https://discord.jonhoo.eu LogLog Games article: https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/ Rust API Guidelines: https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/ Rust Design Patterns Book: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/ Data Latam podcast: https://w...

Also available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/A3qBmLx9uTU. Questions and answers session from December, 2023. Link list Atomic operator in Raku/Perl 6: https://andrewshitov.com/2019/09/09/atomic-operations-in-perl-6/ Helsing on Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Helsing-Reviews-E6763957.htm Simon Singh’s The Code Book: https://simonsingh.net/books/the-code-book/ Rustc dev guide: https://...

Also available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/r1lc2fmU_Rg. Questions and answers session from July, 2023. Link list The B society: https://www.b-society.org/ Principal engineer’s handbook: https://ilya.grigorik.com/the-principal-engineers-handbook/ Writing about your work: https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/ Stream calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=719b6cf08a9f11da4a732...

Also available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/DYOlShQePjY. Questions and answers session from December, 2022. Link list https://wewerewondering.com/ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/19/AWS-Blockchain https://github.com/rust-lang/lang-team/issues/122 Timestamps [@0:00:00] Why another Q&A so soon? [@0:02:06] DSLR Webcam comparison [@0:08:50] wewerewondering.com [@0:31:05] Rust in...

Also available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/01V-0YkEd0M. Questions and answers session from November, 2022. Timestamps [@0:00:00] Introduction [@0:02:39] Managing/splitting your time [@0:08:10] Picking dependencies [@0:17:40] Justifying working for Amazon [@0:22:30] Moving to full-time open-source/teaching [@0:27:05] Beginner-friendly Rust projects [@0:32:50] WebAssembly [@0:34:58] Why vim? [@0:...

Also available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/aGrlEdAe6YE. Questions and answers session from June, 2022. Link list My dotfiles/configs: https://github.com/jonhoo/configs bspwm: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm Safe transmutes: https://github.com/rust-lang/project-safe-transmute Spain map: https://muir-way.com/collections/all/products/spain-and-portugal-1879-relief-map Rustacean Station egui e...

Also available on YouTube at https://youtube.com/live/7Qkc18qJFvo. Questions and answers session from January, 2022. Timestamps [@0:00:00] Introduction [@0:01:40] Image video quality [@0:02:14] Audio/video sync [@0:04:02] What do you do at AWS? [@0:06:40] Future of the borrow checker [@0:07:54] What’s your microphone? [@0:08:52] Hiring Rust engineers [@0:10:27] Rust in web3 [@0:12:34] What don’t y...

Also available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/hmMbHB0zYrM. Questions and answers session from January, 2021. Timestamps [@0:00:00] Intro [@0:01:23] Approach to learning a new code base? [@0:04:40] What’s your experience at AWS? [@0:07:07] Internet goes away (skip ahead) [@0:08:54] Quality of first open-source contribution [@0:12:34] How many hours do you spend coding each day? [@0:14:37] Go vs Rus...

Also available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/rMS1G9gEbjw. Another questions and answers session from August, 2020. Timestamps [@0:00:00] Intro [@0:02:22] Contributing to Rust projects [@0:05:20] Recent Mozilla layoffs [@0:07:47] Intermediate Rust [@0:11:57] Test-driven development [@0:14:28] Microsoft and OSS [@0:16:31] Things I’d change in Rust [@0:18:40] Interop between C and Rust [@0:20:36] Mo...

Also available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/AUEbaWaEeF4. Questions and answers session from August, 2020. Timestamps [@00:00:00] Introduction [@00:02:38] Your shell prompt? [@00:02:56] Swift vs Rust? [@00:03:31] Understanding difficult concepts [@00:03:56] Is Rust too complex? [@00:05:04] Dvorak and Colemak [@00:05:26] GPT-3 [@00:07:10] Higher-ranked trait bounds [@00:07:54] Protocol parsers [@0...