
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
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
Web3: The new Scarlet Letter on your resume
So apparently in 2025 you can get automatically rejected for a job if you have Web3 on your resume
A premise about my work experience I have been working as a Software Engineer for over 8 years. In my career I have worked in…
Published on May 21, 2025 — 7 min read