For awhile now, I’ve wanted to write a blog post about Rust, from the perspective of a seasoned Swift dev. I kept drafting it, but I could never quite present it in a way I’m happy with.

Then I came across this blog post, which is about Swift, from the perspective of a seasoned Rust dev.

I wanted to share this post on my blog because I think it says a lot of things I’ve been thinking about for awhile, and says them very well, along with perspectives I don’t have and presentations I wouldn’t think of.

I might still write that post about Rust from my perspective as a Swift dev, but until then I think this post is a very valuable addition to this blog.

I’ve decided to start going by Ky!

Okay, I promise I have plenty of stuff I’m wanting to blog about that’s not related to my gender adventures, but this is just something that’s been nagging me recently.

Pronouns! For when you want to talk about someone without using their name over and over. Being trans, I’ve thought about and experienced a lot of very interesting things about pronouns over the years. Turns out, they’re both simpler and more complex than they seem.

I have a question, but I don’t have an answer. I pose this to the mathematics community.

From the Wright brothers’ first flight in Kitty Hawk, until Neil Armstrong’s first footstep on the moon, it had been just over 65 and a half years. At the time of writing, we have just over 16 and a half years until 2035-02-28. At that point, it will have been even longer than that since Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon. I hope that since then we will have been back to the moon in earnest.

YouTube loves the idea of keeping me watching an endless stream of videos… and yet I cannot say which ones. Unless I’m casting, then I can queue up the next one. And I like that! I like having an ad-hoc list of videos I wanna watch play automatically. Why not just let me do that on my phone and desktop? 😕

I’ve been thinking a lot about the dynamic between iPad^® and Mac^®. There’s a gap there which has been filling, getting smaller and smaller every year.

People often ask me why I am using a Samsung Galaxy S7, a phone from 2 and a half years ago, despite me being such a tech enthusiast and macOS Software Engineer.

Last night I made a blog at https://BenLeggiero.blog and mirrored it on https://micro.blog/BenLeggiero!

Thanks to Manton Reece, Jekyll (and Trello’s Barry Clark for Jekyll Now), Shopify’s Liquid, Hover, Cloudflare, and GitHub for making this so easy!

I’ve decided to create a blog. Like, a bloggy blog. No idea how long this will last or if I’ll stick to it, but I figure it’s best to at least have it in case I want to use it.

I like the idea of being able to mark down and style up my own social posts however I want, without a character limit or fear of being lost in a feed.

So… here I am! Hello, world!