Hi, I’m Jimmy Hartzell! By profession, I am a systems programmer (with a focus in Rust). By hobby, I am a fiction writer. And by my brain, I have ADHD (which really needs a one-word noun in favour of “person with ADHD”). And this is my personal blog! It has technical and non-technical articles!

Read more about me, or also feel free to buy me a coffee or admonish me privately with admonymous. Subscribe via newsletter or via RSS (or RSS for just technical posts). The code on this website is available under the MIT license.

Featured Articles, Series, and Tags#

Programming and Computers:

• C++ Move Semantics Considered Harmful (Rust is better), on how C++’s move semantics are not only clumsy, but cause serious negative consequences for the design of smart pointers and handles
• My Reaction to Dr. Stroustrup’s Recent Memory Safety Comments, in which I wade into the debate about government endorsement of memory safe programming languages
• Rust is Beyond OOP (blog series), on how Rust does not support traditional pillars of object-oriented programming, which I argue is a good thing
• What is an operating system? (blog series), in which I talk about what an operating system is and how they work
• Rust vs C++ (blog series), on how Rust is generally better than C++, including detailed reasons why I have this opinion, beyond just memory safety

Fiction:

• Are you sure?, a flash fiction piece
• The Letter from the Trees, a short “found document”-style first contact Sci Fi story
• The Curse of Coffee, a short urban fantasy story

Other:

• Write Everything Down (blog series), on my personal organization philosophy and system
• Complexities of Defining ADHD, on philosophical difficulties with defining ADHD and other forms of neurodivergence

Other Pages#

These are pages that are maintained over time but are not a blog post per se.

• Rust vs. C++ Comparison: an MDBook
• Recommended Programming Reading
• Rust Opinions
• C++ Network Programming: Study Questions and Practice/Learning Projects