JL:TG was sold out for today, but I’ve got a ticket for tomorrow, in London, with the Live Q&A. Will also be my first chance to take my new bike on a train and ride it in London.

✨ Ferrocene 26.05.0 is out! 🦀 Highlights:  - a #[warn(ferrocene::unvalidated)] lint - a qualified RHIVOS2 target - limited -C target-cpu support - certified core::fmt. Read more: 🔗 ferrous-systems.com/blog/ferroce... #RustLang #Ferrocene #SafetyCritical #FerrousSystems

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

#Embedded means tradeoffs: tight memory, no OS, no room for mistakes. Rust's pitch isn't "start over" - it's entering existing systems one module at a time, no rewrite needed. #Oxidize2026: workshops on Rust in C codebases and a #RustLang embedded OS, talks on bare-metal UI & shipping a Rust RTOS.

Bad news for your wallet, but joy is priceless in our opinion! 📍 The Centre for Computing History, Cambridge 🕑 Open 10am - 5pm, 7 days a week during Cambridgeshire’s summer holidays What would you get your hands on? #museumshop #cambridgemuseum #thingstodoincambridge

The whole He-Man movie was amazing but The Darkness … damn those guys understood the brief when doing the soundtrack.

🦀 Jonathan Pallant of Ferrous Systems shares the story behind building a GUI application in Rust on QNX, and how Rust's lifetime annotations helped prevent use-after-free bugs. 🔗 qnx.software/en/blog/2026... #RustLang #QNX #FerrousSystems #Ferrocene

Quake is 30 today. I know the press was done a month ago but today’s the day the full retail version shipped. A better game than Doom in every respect. I’m going to play it on my 1996 Silicon Graphics O2 later to celebrate.

Do you live in Czechia? And do you want to do Rust at NXP? They're hiring! nxp.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

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Me, on the first 30 °C + day of the year: It’s so hot all I can do is lay naked on this concrete floor Me, into our fourth heatwave of the year: I think I’ll wear these jeans and cycle to work at noon

Rick Beato interviewed Billy Joel. It’s a masterclass in every respect. youtu.be/Q1Bebf3Y2rk

The Billy Joel Interview

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Apropos absolutely nothing at all, my favourite ever meal was a simple Steak and Frites at the brasserie opposite Brussels Midi station. I try and eat there whenever I'm changing to/from the Eurostar to London. brasseriebelge.com/en

Kinda went all out for my first Patreon post with a new device type for @bluescsi.com - something I don't think anyone thought a BlueSCSI could do, but does now! www.patreon.com/nulleric/pos...

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Today I am mostly doing a git bisect on the QEMU codebase. So, yeah.

Hiring or being hired in Rust? A panel with Till Adam (KDAB), Julius Gustavsson (Volvo Cars), Thomas Fleischmann (Accenture), Julia Sommer (Ferrous Systems) and Liran Aloni (JetBrains) on navigating the maturing Rust job market. 🔗 oxidizeconf.com/sessions/pan... #Oxidize2026 #RustLang #RustJobs

It's a new day, which means I've found a new way for Github to be unutterably awful and ruin that day.

What do you want to hear today?

Synthesized Day 1 is fully underway! So many sounds and cables but amazing to chat with the exhibitors about their synths. From home brews, Cheetah keyboards, LinnDrum, Rolands, and MIDIs plus lots more!! We’re here all weekend so pop down and have a play 🎹🎶

It’s Synthesised!! Come and see how many unique synthesisers I can get into, or connected to, one normal MS-DOS PC and hear the History of PC Sound for yourself. www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/76919/Sy...

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It’s Toffee Pudding weather

Introducing the Rust Foundation Trusted Training program: the 1st accreditation for Rust training providers, backed by the foundation that stewards #rustlang. Seeking Rust training? Building a base of pro talent? Offering Rust training? RFTT is for you! rustfoundation.org/media/rust-f...

Thinking about buying a Cube Fold Hybrid 545 (www.cube.eu/uk-en/e-bike...) Good idea? Bad idea?

NEW at the Empty City Getting rid of 6 Prime Ministers in 10 years is a sign of a working political system It is that we keep appointing poor Prime Ministers that is the problem, not that we are deft at getting rid of them: an input issue not an output issue emptycity.substack.com/p/getting-ri...

I really like slides. Wheeeee!

I went to the Octopus Energy Tech Summit yesterday. It was great! What other energy co puts on a show in a park in London for 4000 people and gives them free food and drink all day, and puts Boris Johnson, Hannah Fry, Jimmy Wales, John Kerry, and the head of the IEA on the bill (to name but a few).

Apparently my iCloud account cannot send e-mail to a hotmail account, because my iCloud mail server is on some kind of Hotmail naughty list. What a time to be alive.

My Switch 2 joycon broke just past its 1 year birthday. Nintendo charged me £35 to fix it :/

IT‘S BACK!! The Red Admiral bit just broke me. youtu.be/HprnN7iyiZI

Pontefract and Polytechnics: One Of These People Is Lying 1x01

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