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Sure, it's unsafe, but it's not like, UNSAFE unsafe.
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6 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT
How far can you take OpenFX?
Amos continues on the arc of nerd-sniping themselves to make their videos in the silliest possible way.
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30 Jul 2025TRANSCRIPT
Blackmagic Fusion is weird
Amos goes further into automating their video production workflow. Get ready to play a game!
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Intrusive lists for fun and profit
Published 13 Aug 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so you want to like protect all of your users as long as one maintainer understands it and can rely on the compiler enforcing that rule. That's one of my favorite things to explain about Rust, especially when people are frustrated about it. It's that the number of programs that the Rust compiler will accept is very small compared to the number of programs that are never safe. But that's the compromise we make because all the programs that are accepted are safe. So you don't have to worry about it exactly. And the other place that I'm using this is in Ergit, which is my networking or message communication library for embedded systems, where all of my sockets work basically the same way. […]
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