I Tide-ed! The Tide! It Rise-ed! I Tried Tide! (ooo Thats A Tongue Twister!)

I tide-ed! The tide! It rise-ed! I tried tide! (ooo that’s a tongue twister!)

So, first impressions were very bad because the docs on cargo.io told me to install a version TWO WHOLE VERSIONS behind the actual correct one which just gives bad juju about the whole entire project. Y’know, if you can’t update something as simple as that, who’s to say any of the other docs are up to date?

And, very basic things like wiring up a database using shared state (across requests) seemed very poorly explained or totally undocumented when I dug around in the tide docs/repo (which in retrospect isn’t actually on the tide people but sssh I didn’t know that when I was getting this bad impression).

See, the tide docs did cover state, but because Diesel has connection pooling (which requires shared ownership), rust really didn’t like to put Diesel’s connection pool into tide’s state. This is the sort of compatibility problems that you hit when you use an unopinionated project like tide, but usually the devs try and smooth it over with good docs and maybe some special compatibility packages to fill the gaps.

It took me a while of digging through random github repos to figure out that actually this was Diesel’s fault, not tides! Diesel just didn’t really document their connection pooling features at all (the creates.io page for that module is nearly empty) and in my confusion I ended up using the wrong struct by accident.

That was the problem that I thought was being caused by tides state! Man, for a community as fast moving as rust and as assertive about how clean code and good docs are important, some major projects are really lacking :/

SO anyways, all that’s sorted now and on the whole tide looks pretty nice! It really reminds me of my early days with Sinatra in ruby, and I think it’ll do, at least until something more mature like Rocket gets websocket support.

Anyways, tl;dr the project is back on the rails 😎 (but not ruby on rails)

I want so badly for my voice to sound Good but in order to do this I have to risk sounding Bad for a while while I “work on it” and “practice”??? Very confused. I thought this was supposed to be a positive experience

I am such a slut for fun text formatting please somebody tell me how I get all the fun fonts for my tumblr posts. please. im desperate.

"Axon ... was working on a drone that first responders could operate remotely to fire a Taser"

This is quite possibly the most insane response to a school shooting I could even imagine. Not to mention, the details are just unbelievable. Apparently these drones would be able to "move into rooms through special vents" and there's even a """promotional""" comic

Reuters

Taser maker halts drone project; most of its ethics panel resigns

Taser-maker Axon Enterprise Inc said it was halting a project to equip drones with stun guns to combat mass shootings, a reversal that did n

Also, for fun, the links to AXON's own releases, including their "3 laws of responder robotics": the announcment, and more

You also might be wondering where I’ve been! It’s been a hot sec since I’ve posted here. Well. Covid. A lot of it. But not for me! Just basically everyone else I live with. So that’s been exciting and also very stressful.

tbh there's a good chance that many who were raised in american schools don't know this, but one of the sanctions on lgbt+ bodies which existed pre-stonewall (and after tbh) was what was called the "three article rule". it was legally required that people would have to be wearing 3 or more items of "correct" clothing for their gender.

a person found in clothing that did not "fit" their assigned gender could and would be arrested. this law wasn't repealed in new york until recently. the actual prosecution of this law has disproportionately affected trans women and women of color.

texas is beginning to create "anti-drag" legislations. pre-existing conditions have shown us the degree to which "clothing must fit your assigned gender" can and will be used to create unsafe conditions for lgbt+ and minority populations. labelling drag "inappropriate" for children isn't just a first step towards systematic abuse - it is the assurance that the systematic abuse will occur. there is no population that will be made safe by this law; it exists only to create moral panic and further division. i've spoken about this a lot, but "think of the children" & "protect innocence" is a vile, white-nationalist stakehold which positions queer expression as being inherently "perverted", "sexual", or "deviant".

legislation that corroborates the sentiment that "drag is not appropriate for children" is incredibly harmful not just in the immediate - but also because it sets the legal precedent that any act of gnc expression is inherently inappropriate and wrong.

read up on your history, if you can. and remember: we said we would never let this happen to us again.