Sean McArthur

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  1. Tending my little plot of the Internet

    As many parts of the Internet continue to get worse, I figured it was time to improve my own little plot. I mean, I’m always tinkering, making small tweaks regularly. Did you know I keep /now up-to-date? But anyways, a couple changes here felt big enough to write about. My microblog is mine I’ve been outputting random microposts since… checks archive 2009, apparently. They were “status updates” back then. With Twitter dying, I started doing that sort of thing on Mastodon, and then on BlueSky.…

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  2. hyper User Survey 2025 Results

    hyper is the widely-used HTTP library for Rust. We ran the first user survey for hyper in November 2025. Here’s the results and some analysis.1 Why did we do a survey? We ran a survey to make sure we focus on the right things. It’s part of being user-driven, working backwards. The amount of work required to get some data has an outsized return on your investment. When you know nothing, just a little bit of work means you now know something. And knowing what users need is a requirement to making…

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