I did it and yes! I've been reading more books, exploring the indies/smallweb, and spending more time with friends IRL. I highly recommend it! And I agree that the mainstream internet and social media are possibly driving a shortening if it attention span, but books are a perfect example of how to counteract this. After I quit/drastically reduced social media exposure and started reading books again, I initially found it tough. Slowly though I adjusted to the old media.
Loved the article, such a nice read. I am still slowly ramping up my proficiency in Rust and this gave me a lot of things to think through. I particularly enjoyed the temporary mutability pattern, very cool and didn't think about it before!
> I particularly enjoyed the temporary mutability pattern, very cool and didn't think about it before!
It's not too uncommon in other languages (sometimes under the name "immediately invoked function expression"), though depending on the language you may see lambdas involved. For example, here's one of the examples from the article ported to C++:
auto data = []() {
auto data = get_vector();
auto temp = compute_something();
data.insert_range(data.end(), temp);
std::ranges::sort(data);
return data;
}();
Out of curiosity, I see my website not being well indexed and I wondered whether it is because I include
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
```
in my robots.txt. What should one add to allow Marginalia to crawl their website?
Why spend electricity and time to read the text in a screenshot, and then more time making sure there are no mistakes. When the sender could have just copied the original text?
I tried we mentions for a while, but then switched to just POSSE (publish (on your) own site, syndicate elsewhere). So the comments are moved to other platforms atm.
