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Eric Torreborre

Eric Torreborre

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I am a software engineer. Put me at the center of a Venn diagram with functional programming, product development, and open-source

The application toolbox

Nov 6, 202313 min read

What are the elements that make a huge difference in your productivity when you are developing an application? Are there features that you lament not...

The application toolbox

Why we need techno-realism

Oct 24, 202311 min read

Marc Andreessen recently wrote a "Techno-optimist manifesto". I promptly reacted that I was a techno-pessimist, that I was not believing in technology...

Why we need techno-realism

Turning actors inside-out

Oct 8, 202317 min read

Or... do we really need actor systems? · The actor model, and its concrete incarnation in platforms like Erlang/OTP or Akka, has been presented as a...

Turning actors inside-out

Why Rust does not need variance annotations

Sep 25, 20235 min read

I have now heard twice (the last time was in that podcast) that Rust does not need variance annotations for generics because it has lifetime...

Why Rust does not need variance annotations

Why you should flox every day

Sep 17, 20236 min read

(I hope I will be forgiven for this very questionable pun 😄) · I want to share a very valuable tool that I have been using for almost a year now:...

Why you should flox every day

The pros and cons of listening to book summaries

Sep 10, 20233 min read

I have started to listen to book summaries via the Headway app. After a month or so here is a list of the pros and cons. The pros The summaries are...

The pros and cons of listening to book summaries