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Alejandra 🔜 bed

@blyxyas@tech.lgbt

Clippy team member at #Rust, "Optimizing Clippy & Linting" Project Goal owner twice. Google OSPB Award winner in 2023, featured in maintaine.rs and Rust Bytes newsletter.

Gave talks at RustChinaConf2025, Kangrejos 2025, Rust In Paris 2026 & RustWeek 2026

Not a gymrat anymore, now into contact sports (currently doing Muay Thai)

Usually worried about software performance and human rights.

Profile picture drawn by Ryuuseee, https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/270369

295 Followers

75 Following

25 Posts

Joined February 04, 2024

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https://blog.goose.love

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https://github.com/blyxyas

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Posts

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Jun 03, 2026

Replying to @datarama@hachyderm.io

@datarama@hachyderm.io @daviddoes@mastodon.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I do not only want my toaster to be part of a botnet, I want my toaster to not have electronics AT ALL. There is no reason for my fridge, toaster or oven to have a microcontroller. Really, we've been doing these things a century and today we seem to default to adding microcontrollers to everything.

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · May 17, 2026

Because of my Spanish blood, today I landed at RUST WEEK 2026 COME GET YOUR TICKET, and found myself surprised (again, this happens often) with the idea that the rest of the world eats before 10 PM.

The “dinner” time here starts at 6 PM, absolutely ridiculous!

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · May 11, 2026

Finally got around to self-hosting a #Forgejo instance. Also finally got around to creating systemd services for all my services.

No one will complain every again that I forgot to boot something after the lights go out!

#selfhosted

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · May 11, 2026

The pull request establishing a t-funding Rust team has entered Final Comment Period!

https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/issues/294

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · May 11, 2026

Currently commissioning some Samurai stickers for my #Rust Week 2026 talk on "Redesigning the Incremental System". Make sure to be there, only 7 days left. :dragncool: :dragncool: :dragncool:

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · May 05, 2026

@fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io This happened to me when trying to create a pretty-print for floats following IEEE 754 :/

hachyderm.io

amos (@fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io) - Hachyderm.io

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Apr 28, 2026

Replying to @blyxyas@tech.lgbt

@fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io aaaand of course, when I try to click on the writer's username it goes to an error page...

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Apr 28, 2026

Replying to @fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io

@fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io

The main driver is a rapid change in how software is being built. Since the second half of December 2025, agentic development workflows have accelerated sharply

Since December 2025 I haven't noticed an uprise in code quality or tool diversity. But I've noticed that I've received more spam pings than usual.

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Apr 16, 2026

I'm currently on interviews with maintainers of:

- Lua
- Sqlite
- OpenSSH
- Clojure
- And more!

Because a future post/video(?)/talk will be released about these interviews. Hoping that you enjoy the insight these people have to bring.

#foss #programming

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Apr 15, 2026

Do you want your art commissions to help a kitty? Do you like human art (tm)? Would you like a 50% DISCOUNT on all human art (including #furry, chibi and #nsfw)?

My girlfriend is offering a 50% DISCOUNT on ALL art commissions, go check her out.

More information here: http://blog.goose.love/posts/commission-art-to-help-alastor/

Boosts greatly appreciated, all proceedings go to the kitty's surgery. If you don't like Instagram but would still like to make a commission, get in contact with me and I'll figure things out.

#art #commission

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Apr 08, 2026

RE: @javienrcardoto@mastodon.social

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Apr 06, 2026

Reckless, a Rust-written chess engine is currently battling Stockfish in the TCEC superfinal. This means that Reckless, the only Rust-based chess engine to reach this level, has beaten every other opponent thus far.

#rust #chess

https://tcec-chess.com/

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Apr 04, 2026

Today I made my longest bash command.

```bash
for dir in ./*/; do cd $dir && for f in ./callgrind.185master.*; do if [ "$(callgrind_annotate $f | rg "clippy-driver" --stats | rg "(\d+) matches" | rg "\d+" --only-matching)" -gt "200" ]; then echo "$f - $(callgrind_annotate $f | rg 'PROGRAM TOTALS' &)"; fi; done | tail -n 1 >> difference.md && for f in ./callgrind.out.*; do if [ "$(callgrind_annotate $f | rg "clippy-driver" --stats | rg "(\d+) matches" | rg "\d+" --only-matching)" -gt "200" ]; then echo "$f - $(callgrind_annotate $f | rg 'PROGRAM TOTALS' &)"; fi; done | tail -n 1 >> difference.md; done
```

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Apr 03, 2026

Replying to @blyxyas@tech.lgbt

I want to note that NONE of my optimizations, blog posts, PR description, commit messaged, slides, documents or any other content I produce or post in any way is assisted or generated with the use of Artificial Intelligence (LLMs or otherwise) All my optimizations are thanks to my Natural Intelligence and nothing else. If you need AI to program you’re overworked, undercompetent or both

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Apr 02, 2026

Dearest diary, Clippy-exclusively currently takes 4.3 billion instructions on wasmi, so I removed 1.1 billion of those instructions.

Thanks for hearing me dearest diary, you're great. *whisper* performance... wins.

So, the `clippy::nonstandard_macro_braces` is now optimized by 99.9922% I have 4 more nines than Github does.

#rust #opensource #programming #foss

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Apr 01, 2026

Talking with @bal4e@tech.lgbt in Rust In Paris 2026 I'm now thinking again about something she said: "People don't realize how fast today's CPUs are, and they don't realize how fast CPUs made 20 years ago also are".

So, today I'm noticing how slow Github is, and I have a 3.8-4.7 GHz CPU. And it's still insanely slow.

How can some software be this slow?

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Apr 01, 2026

Rust Clippy announces that it will require age verification software for users residing in California

https://blog.goose.love/posts/rust-clippy-will-require-age-verification/

#rust #opensource #foss #programming

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Mar 25, 2026

Just 9,5 hours before taking the train for the bus in order to get to the plain straight to RUST IN PARIS 2026, another 20% performance optimization is delievered straight to your door.

I know that I make a big mess out of "performance without removing features" but this one does hide a feature. `clippy::nonminimal_bool` will be allow-by-default at least until we figure out a way to simplify it and stop it from using scary math.

320 million instructions STRAIGHT to the fire. Once again, performance wins.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/pull/16761

#opensource #rust #programming

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Mar 23, 2026

Another 765 million instructions optimized in Clippy. If you want to see me talking about performance, I'll be at Rust In Paris IN JUST 3 DAYS.

Antoher 3.3% shaved off of Clippy :partyparrot:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/pull/16756

#rust #opensource

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Mar 23, 2026

I've optimized `clippy::manual_is_ascii_check` by 97.125% in the `wasmi` crate. This makes a `cargo clippy` run in `wasmi` take 820 million instructions less, approximately 3.3% of the total analysis runtime.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/pull/16755

#rust #programming #opensource

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Mar 18, 2026

I'm mapping ALL crates.io and their dependencies.

These are just 14341 crates (palindrome number and about 5.9% of crates.io) and it already seems something of cosmical proportions. Like some sort of megastructure. And we have some data!

Out of 14341 crates, 46% depend directly on tokio, 4.8% depend directly on syn, only 44 depend on a rustc_* internal crate, almost all of them being rustc_version and even being the most downloaded crate of all crates.io, only 166 depend on `hashbrown`.

#rust #opensource #foss

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Mar 03, 2026

THE CLIPPY CHANGELOG CAT CONTEST 1.94 IS OPEN SUBMIT YOURS NOW 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/pull/16653

#rust #opensource #programming

Alejandra 🔜 bed @blyxyas@tech.lgbt · Feb 26, 2026

My talk at Rust In Paris will have a live demo section, and preparing for this live demo section I decided to test some popular crates and their performance improvements over time ^•ﻌ•^ฅ♡

These were the results! Make sure to check out the full talk once I've given it! See you in Paris

@rustinparis@mastodon.social

#rust #programming #opensource