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memory safety / Rust, #jj-vcs, urbanism, and more. 🧔🏼‍♂️ general words: alilleybrinker.com 🦀 rust words: possiblerust.com Principal Engineer at MITRE (opinions are mine) · he/him

Andrew Lilley Brinker
Andrew Lilley BrinkerFeb 5, 2026
Claude Has First-Party Agent Orchestration
Anthropic has announced an experimental system for first-party
AI
Andrew Lilley Brinker
Andrew Lilley BrinkerJan 16, 2026
Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision
Explaining how Rust's culture of semantic precision pays dividends
Rust
Andrew Lilley Brinker
Andrew Lilley BrinkerJan 15, 2026
Gas Town is not Urbit
Explaining how Gas Town and Urbit use insular language for
AI
Andrew Lilley Brinker
Andrew Lilley BrinkerJan 14, 2026
Passkey PRFs and the Passkey Loss Blast Radius
Exploring the way passkey PRFs increase the blast radius of
Authentication
Andrew Lilley Brinker
Andrew Lilley BrinkerJan 14, 2026
Gas Town Decoded
Explaining Gas Town's insular language to help demystify Steve
AI
Andrew Lilley Brinker
Andrew Lilley BrinkerDec 1, 2025
‘Memory Safety for Skeptics’ in the ACM Queue
Making the case for pursuing memory safety amid time and budget
Memory Safety
Andrew Lilley Brinker
Andrew Lilley BrinkerApr 10, 2025
Tracking Software ID Schemes
Introducing a small tracker for known software ID schemes such
Software ID
Andrew Lilley Brinker
Andrew Lilley BrinkerFeb 19, 2025
The Best Monad Tutorial Ever Written
Rain Paharia has done it, they've explained monads with real,
RustProgramming
Andrew Lilley Brinker
Andrew Lilley BrinkerFeb 14, 2025
Jujutsu is the Future
Staking my position that Jujutsu will displace Git in 5 years.
Jujutsu
Andrew Lilley Brinker
Andrew Lilley BrinkerFeb 12, 2025
Postscript on “Open Source Software and Corporate Influence”
Some additional notes based on responses to 'Open Source Software
Open Source
Andrew Lilley Brinker
Andrew Lilley BrinkerFeb 11, 2025
Open Source Software and Corporate Influence
Exploring how corporations gain power in open source projects,
Open Source
Andrew Lilley Brinker
Andrew Lilley BrinkerFeb 10, 2025
Safety Hygiene
Explaining how to properly contain and document unsafe code to
Rust