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froober··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
I've got a blog and some other stuff. Continually tinkering with CSS, and continually procrastinating writing up a backlog of ideas.

https://alexanderbass.com/

froober··on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Given how well-established cloudflare is, I would've figured they'd be profitable by now. That raises the question: why does so much of the web rely on a company which does not have the means to sustain itself?
froober··on Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It
Not to be confused with `vscodium` which is an open source build of vscode
froober··on Rouille – Rust Programming, in French
The small cyrillic letters in the rust example are oddly appealing to my eye. Kinda like smallcaps in a latin script
froober··on ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
That works well until the following doesn't compile

int x = 1 — 2;

froober··on Level Up your Rust pattern matching
I really like rust's pattern matching and it's the feature I miss the most in other languages. However, I feel like its easy to encode too much control flow in one match statement and make a garbled mess. The first example in the article uses all the features (destructuring, @ sigil, inline if, etc.) which I think makes it unreadable.

Overall good article, but those large match statements are difficult to read.

froober··on Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?
I really like the pen plotting art made by Adam Fuhrer. It was posted here a while back. https://adamfuhrer.com/pen-plotting