Ryan Westlund

I'm a programmer, writer, and philosopher. My Github account is yujiri8; all my content besides code is at yujiri.xyz.

Joined on Jan 15, 2020

Education

Homeschooled and self-taught

Work

Software Engineering Intern at Awning Tracker LLC

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Ryan Westlund

Jul 11

Comparing an autocomplete algorithm in Python, Go, Haskell

#python #go #haskell #performance

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Oct 13

Apologies for slandering the Jennifer ORM

#crystal

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Frustrations with Crystal ORMs

#orm #crystal

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Oct 1

Do I count as a "junior developer"?

#discuss #question

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Oct 1

Crystal Review

#healthydebate #crystal

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Sep 25

Can we agree that font ligatures are the worst thing ever?

#watercooler #font #rant

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Sep 25

Filesystem versus SQLite performance

#performance #sqlite

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Sep 25

System76 review request

#hardware #laptop #system76 #question

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Sep 24

OS size

#watercooler #linux #freebsd

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Sep 23

Coming around to SQLite

#sqlite #postgres #database #architecture

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Sep 16

A win for dynamic typing?

#discuss #typesystem #templates

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Sep 12

Dreams of an ideal world: Rethinking package managers

#watercooler #architecture #design

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Ryan Westlund

Sep 10

Removing bloatware features from Sway

#sway #wayland #bloat

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Sep 8

Discovering pacman.conf

#todayilearned #linux #artix #archlinux

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Sep 6

Scraping DEV to measure your post quality

#crystal

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Ryan Westlund

Sep 3

Any code counters that count AST size?

#discuss #codequality

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Sep 2

Evidence of Crystal's power

#crystal

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Aug 31

The Unix world needs to get its shit together.

#unix #linux

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Aug 23

EFI victory

#linux

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Aug 21

Why OOP HTTP frameworks?

#discuss #oop #webdev #philosophy

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Ryan Westlund

Aug 20

Story of daily Linux borkage and reinstall

#linux

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Aug 19

What does OOP mean to you?

#discuss #oop

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Aug 18

Why I don't believe in pure functional programming anymore

#functional #philosophy #haskell #rust

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Ryan Westlund

Aug 17

Specifications are contravariant

#rant #philosophy

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Aug 14

Rust Review

#healthydebate #rust

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Ryan Westlund

Aug 12

Am I the only one who pronounces git as 'jit'?

#watercooler #discuss

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Ryan Westlund

Aug 11

Are you always on the other side?

#watercooler #linux #unix

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Ryan Westlund

Aug 8

What to do about monospace font sizes?

#design #question #ux

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Aug 7

Code counter comparison

#tooling #question

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Aug 6

How I just left FreeBSD

#freebsd #linux #fedora #voidlinux

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Aug 4

Self-containing lists...?!?

#todayilearned #python

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Jul 31

I'm gonna be learning Linux!

#linux

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Jul 31

Including library code in stack traces

#debugging #design

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Ryan Westlund

Jul 29

Why do ppl often add extremely short posts to their reading list?

#meta

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Ryan Westlund

Jul 29

Javascript the compiled language

#javascript

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Jul 28

Hierarchy of else if compression

#python #ruby #julia #rust

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Jul 28

Dynamic typing is a sin

#healthydebate #typesystem #philosophy

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Jul 26

Double-counting notifs

#meta

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Jul 25

JS date parsing aaaaargghhh

#javascript #rant

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Jul 23

CLI autocompletion algorithm in Rust

#rust #performance

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Jul 23

How I found a bug in the Rust compiler on day 1 of learning Rust

#rust

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Jul 22

Interfaces don't need fields

#go #typesystem

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Ryan Westlund

Jul 22

Can function overloading and no function declaration syntax be reconciled?

#question #design #syntax

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Jul 21

I JUST discovered that less has builtin help

#todayilearned #unix #linux

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Jul 20

The solution to Javascript import

#javascript

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Jul 19

I just realized how to get the best ratio of likes to effort

#watercooler

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Ryan Westlund

Jul 18

I just realized where "dunder" comes from

#todayilearned #python

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Jul 18

Implementing Maybe in Go

#go #typesystem

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Jul 17

Why do all the dynamic languages catch name errors by default?

#python #ruby #julia #javascript

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Jul 15

Build systems are a scourge

#rant

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Jul 14

Node filesystem imports

#discuss #node #javascript

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Jul 11

Haskell IO concurrency

#haskell #funny

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Jul 10

Python performance benefits of generator expressions

#python #performance

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Ryan Westlund

Jul 8

Apparently Go actually can filter?

#todayilearned #go

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Jul 8

Breadth-first versus depth-first autocompletion

#shell #design

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Jul 8

Why does your favorite language suck?

#discuss

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Ryan Westlund

Jul 6

Does anything feel better than automation?

#watercooler #discuss

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Ryan Westlund

Jul 6

How often do you use git cherry-pick?

#discuss #git

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Jul 6

Story of Yggdrasil and the daemon(8) problem

#unix #freebsd #debugging #yggdrasil

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Jul 4

Usefulness of currying

#discuss #functional

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Jul 3

When my Windows computer decides I'm not in charge

#windows #rant

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