I wrote a thing. This is not a love letter to Emacs, which is one of my more toxic and codependent relationships. sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05...

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pvh@pvh.ca · 5d ago

The Local-First Conf 2026 talks are up! I always get hallway tracked real hard at this event so I'm really excited to catch all the talks I missed... www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

It has been a WILD couple of weeks in AI -- it's clear the open weight revolution is truly upon us -- and I am thrilled to announce that @simonwillison.net will be joining @ahl.bsky.social and me to help us make sense of it all! Join us today, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

New blog post describing an idea I’ve been kicking around called battery packs. Battery packs are a curated set of crates arranged around a common theme. Battery packs are meant to address one of the most common things I hear from new Rust adopters. smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/bl...

I just sponsored ogulcancelik. Herdr has quickly become an indispensable part of my workflow and is easily one of the best-designed dev tools I’ve ever used. Do yourselves a favour and give it a try! 🐑 herdr.dev github.com/sponsors/ogu...

Herdr: one terminal for the whole herd

To coding agents what tmux is to terminals. Runs where your agents run: close the laptop, ssh from anywhere, nothing dies.

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PSA! Here's an unmissable one to get you started: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmLA...

Completion-based IO (Alice Ryhl at RustWeek)

YouTube video by RustNL

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RustNL@rustnl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

All RustWeek 2026 talks are now published! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #rustweek2026 #rustlang

Video and transcript from my talk at QCon London are now online. Thanks @qconferences.com! www.infoq.com/presentation...

Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto

Martin Kleppmann discusses the urgent need for technological sovereignty in modern infrastructure. Exploring the shifting landscape of global tech dependencies, he shares how engineering leaders can l...

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ICYMI, @sunshowers.io had a terrific blog entry last week -- and today, she joins @ahl.bsky.social and me on Oxide and Friends to discuss the blog entry, the work behind it, and the reaction to it. Join us, 5p Pacific today! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

rain 🌦️@sunshowers.io · 2mo ago

iddqd, or the hardest kind of unsafe Rust. My first post for the @oxide.computer blog! Goes deep into the pitfalls of unsafe Rust and how to reason about it. A lot of labor went into the post -- please have a read! oxide.computer/blog/iddqd-u...

I had been itching to build something that improves discovery for the "authentic"/"old-school" web. Having spent a few minutes with Kagi's small web, it seems to match the ~shape of what I had in mind! Give it a go: blog.kagi.com/small-web-up...

Kagi HQ@kagi.com · 3mo ago

Love to hear it! In case you haven't already, here's how and where you can dive in: blog.kagi.com/small-web-up...

I think I'm beginning to get @exe.dev Your ideas can go into shelley instead of into the bottomless "some day" idea pit. And tailor-made software for a userbase of you and/or your friends is a reality now. Supported by what feels like the best UX for VMs in the world. Beautiful! 🤌🏼🤌🏼

A report from this retreat is now available. It's a good, thoughtful summary of how AI is changing software engineering. It avoids breathless hype, but it doesn't bury the head in the sand either. www.thoughtworks.com/content/dam/...

Martin Kleppmann@martin.kleppmann.com · 6mo ago

Spent the last few days at a retreat on the future of software development, convened by @thoughtworks.com and @martinfowler.com. Excellent conversations and plenty of food for thought www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/about-...

Been thinking about this more and more lately, very well formulated by Marc

Marc Brooker@marcbrooker.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The cost of turning written business logic into code has dropped to zero. At best, near-zero. The cost of integrating services and libraries, the plumbing of the code world, has dropped to zero. At best, near-zero. What does that mean for the future? New blog post: brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02...

ya, if you're using LLMs and not using their force multiplier to raise the bar in terms of specifying/testing/verifying software you're doing it turbowrong

Ed@ed3d.net · 6mo ago

“LLMs will make codebases into unmaintainable slop!” Ed: “I just had built a ts-morph custom linter for free that enforces business rules the type system cannot. It required zero of my attention and is patterned to add more whenever needed”

The OSTEP book club reading is starting in a week! A few updates. 1) Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau is in the book club! May not be super active because he's got a lot going on but he'll be there.

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

First of many blog posts about the Rust vision doc process: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/03/l...

Lessons learned from the Rust Vision Doc process | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...

git/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc at master · git/git

Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documen...

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Video of the One Billion Row Challenge stream is now up at youtu.be/tCY7p6dVAGE! We got down to 1.2s without any external dependencies, and it was a fun journey down lots of performance rabbit holes (only some of which panned out 😅). It is over 10h, but hopefully the chapters in the video help!

Sometimes an interface is so ubiquitous that performance limitations inherent to its design are just accepted. This has been our experience with Parquet. We switched to Vortex which aligned much better with our needs and saw a 70% performance improvement across the board. Read more below 👇

Do more with less. | Polar Signals

Polar Signals Cloud is an always-on, zero-instrumentation continuous profiling for CPU, GPU, and Memory that helps improve performance, understand incidents, and lower infrastructure costs.

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it's such a joy to build software exclusively for yourself definitely a form of self-care

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Cynthia Dunlop@cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#P99CONF is going live in just minutes! Here's a peek at the behind-the-scenes prep. If you haven't registered yet, hurry over to p99conf.io. It's free and virtual, so no excuses. 😅

At long last, @chris.blue and I have submitted the final manuscript of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, second edition, to the publisher. There is always more that could be improved but at some point we just have to call it done. Now it goes into production; probably shipping in ~4 months.

@eurorust.eu 2025 is beginning! So excited about getting to attend live online! 🦀🦀 The two tracks are pretty tough to choose among, let's see if we can manage to sneak in the replays during the breaks...

EuroRust@eurorust.eu · 10mo ago

Hello 👋 #eurorust25

PSA!! 🦀🦀

RustConf@rustconf.com · 10mo ago

It's been a month since #rustconf 2025, but the buzz is still strong! 🦀 Revisit the magic via these videos on the @rustfoundation.org YouTube channel, incl. sessions, keynotes, & this highlight reel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw_I... +Don’t miss these event pics 📸 www.flickr.com/photos/rustf...

My use of the em-dash with respect to LLMs

Looks like today is the day for JDK25! openjdk.org/projects/jdk... #java

The next book we're reading in the Software Internals Email Book Club is the 2nd edition of The Art of Multiprocessor Programming. Sign up and volunteer to kick off discussion for one chapter! eatonphil.com/2025-art-of-...

Help pick the next book we read in the Software Internals Book Club. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Antithesis has put up recordings from last few DC Systems, including this gem of a talk on Controlled Concurrency Testing for JVM Programs by Rohan Padhye! 🙌🏼🙌🏼 Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX6P... Fray, the concurrency testing toolkit for the JVM: github.com/cmu-pasta/fray

Greetings from #sd25! It's a two-day single-track conference hosted by @tigerbeetle.com. I'll be aiming to liveskeet as many of the talks as I can. Super excited to be here! systemsdistributed.com

Systems Distributed '25

A conference to teach systems programming and thinking, and how to apply these ideas. All the way across the stack. From systems languages and compilers, to databases and distributed systems.

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