evntdrvn

1,576 karma · joined February 1, 2013

Backend/Platform engineer in Minnesota with special interests in Identity/AuthX, Observability, and Messaging. Expertise in C# and F#, competent in Rust (and continually improving), interested in functional programming. M.Sc. and ten years experience in Control Systems Engineering, before transitioning to Software Engineering over a decade ago.

Available for consulting and contracting. Expertise in refactoring/replatforming large or complex legacy systems, migrating from in-house identity/auth systems to SaaS/self-hosted identity platforms, etc. I have extensive experience successfully managing/implementing complex 6-12 month projects on large business-critical production systems transparently without introducing downtime or customer impact.

Twitter: @evntdrvn Email: eric+hn AT evntdrvn.com Mastodon: @evntdrvn@hachyderm.io

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evntdrvn··on Disappearing Polymorphs

so like the caterpillar metamorphosis process… :)

evntdrvn··on Why Async Rust?

absolutely

evntdrvn··on The Unix Game

nushell.org

evntdrvn··on Why Async Rust?

No love for F# ? The tooling is pretty dang good, all things considered.

evntdrvn··on REI is Laying Off 275 Employees

Same, dang

evntdrvn··on Krita fund has no corporate support

Isn’t this kinda what Tidelift is trying to do?

evntdrvn··on Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers

thank you!

evntdrvn··on GitHub Actions could be so much better

if you look at the source of the GHA runner, you can see where they regex-replace all references to Azure Pipelines with GitHub Actions lol

evntdrvn··on GitHub Actions could be so much better

the original GHA implementation was shitcanned

evntdrvn··on Ways to capture changes in Postgres

What advantages does this have compared to Debezium?

evntdrvn··on Ways to capture changes in Postgres

yeah, for SQL Server the connection string has an ApplicationName property for this purpose, it's pretty useful :)

evntdrvn··on Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers

what I always want to know when people talk about this is "what reputable companies can I actually pay to do a real pentest (without costing hundreds of thousands of dollars)."

evntdrvn··on Removing garbage collection from the Rust language (2013)

evntdrvn··on Happy 25th Birthday to Bugzilla

https://www.bizapedia.com/mi/zarro-boogs-corporation.html

evntdrvn··on I built a garbage collector for a language that doesn’t need one

Thanks, I didn’t hear that update!

evntdrvn··on Railway Oriented Programming

Y’all might enjoy this book by the same author! https://pragprog.com/titles/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-func...

evntdrvn··on Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart

evntdrvn··on I built a garbage collector for a language that doesn’t need one

they’re experimenting with green threads now though… we’ll see where that ends up :)

evntdrvn··on The combined power of F# and C#

I’ve tried to use “ASP.NET Core with F# underneath” for several projects, thinking it would make for an easier bridge for the rest of the team members who were very comfortable with asp.net already.

And each time, it turned out to be a mistake.

Things went way more smoothly by just using an F#-native web framework like Falco or Suave or Giraffe or …

evntdrvn··on How Turborepo is porting from Go to Rust

JSON compresses very well, fortunately

evntdrvn··on Istio moved to CNCF Graduation stage

It’s really hard to have any influence on it unless you’re inside the Google fence. Even for the primary maintainers of those two external parties that you mentioned.

evntdrvn··on Roots of trust are difficult

Oxide has described some stuff around their Root of Trust implementation: https://oxide.computer/blog/exploiting-undocumented-hardware...

evntdrvn··on Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

Nifty!! Good luck :)

evntdrvn··on Visual Studio’s IntelliSense list can now steer GitHub Copilot code completions

Yeah, it’s a big bummer that VSCode is getting the attention first it seems. For instance there’s nothing for Vs equivalent to the VSCode Copilot Labs plugin, which brings a whole bunch of new useful functionality.

evntdrvn··on Unexpected downsides of UUID keys in PostgreSQL

their format is pretty funky though lol

evntdrvn··on Building a Slack/Discord alternative with Tauri/Rust

https://blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2022/01/fleet-below-deck-pa...

evntdrvn··on Ownership in Swift: Manifesto and meta-proposal (2017)

that's fair, I was thinking of it more as an "easier alternative to Rust" than "is it any harder to learn than Go", which puts things in a very different frame :)

evntdrvn··on Ownership in Swift: Manifesto and meta-proposal (2017)

yeah agreed. It just feels like it’s going to be hard for it to escape people’s hesitation due to the level of Apple influence/control. I wonder why golang didn’t seem to experience the same issue

evntdrvn··on Fq: Jq for Binary Formats

Thanks for the link, that’s really cool!

evntdrvn··on Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers

I really hope that I can find someone on the MS SQL Server team to champion implementing native UUIDV7 support, from what I've heard they are really hesitant to add more data types but a person's gotta try :)

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