I'm Christian Visintin. I live in Udine, Italy. I'm a freelance software engineer. I'm also an open-source developer. On this blog I write about my dev misadventures and give unneeded opinions on many topics involving technology and development
Latest Posts
Can you move a Copy in Rust?
A dumb question, but a good one to ask
Introduction This article came from a question I saw on Reddit, and it is a good one to ask, even if it seems dumb at first. So…
Published on July 28, 2025 — 5 min read
Leaktracer: A Rust allocator to trace memory allocations
A simple allocator to help you find leaks and memory issues in your Rust applications
A few days ago, I had a memory issue in one of my Rust applications. The application was huge, and for some reason the memory…
Published on June 26, 2025 — 11 min read
Don't you dare to sort your struct fields when using ?Sized
Or Ferris will come for you!
So on the other day I was making a custom implementation of the io module for maybe-fut and I had to implement the BufReader str…
Published on June 18, 2025 — 7 min read
Rust on a Diet
How cloning a Vec had caused memory bloat on the Solana Validator
So if you don't know, I also develop on the Solana Validator (but please don't leave, it's about Rust and not blockchain things…
Published on June 07, 2025 — 8 min read