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Eyes of the Void: Good

In the afternoon I finished Eyes of the Void. I did like the book although a little less compared to the first one in the trilogy.

• book
• science fiction

Stop writing Rust linked list libraries!

Don’t write a Rust linked list library: they are hard to do well, and usually useless.

Use VecDeque, which is great. If you actually need more than VecDeque can do, use one of the handful of libraries that actually offer a significantly more useful API.

If you are writing your own data structure, check if someone has done it already, and consider slotmap or generation_arena, (or maybe Rc/Arc).

Source: Stop writing Rust linked list libraries!.

• rust

Emacs: quickly killing processes

Every so often, I need to kill the odd unresponsive process. While I really like proced (check out Mickey Petersen's article), I somehow find myself using macOS's Activity Monitor to this purpose. Kinda odd, considering I prefer to do these kinds of things from Emacs.

Source: Emacs: quickly killing processes, an article by Álvaro Ramírez.

• emacs

Army of Thieves (2021)

A prequel, set before the events of Army of the Dead, which focuses on German safecracker Ludwig Dieter leading a group of aspiring thieves on a top secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse.

In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched Army of Thieves. I liked the movie and give it a 7.5 out of 10.

• movie
• action