When should you use String vs &str? Some #rustlang rules of thumb steveklabnik.com/writing/when...

This week in #rust 662 https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/07/29/this-week-in-rust-662/ #rustlang

🚀 VaireDB v0.1.0 is out — our first release! A cloud-native distributed SQL database: PostgreSQL wire compatibility + DuckDB's vectorized engine for analytics at scale. Hash sharding, quorum writes, column pseudonymization. Contributors 👇 github.com/matteobovetti/vairedb #vairedb #database

GitHub - matteobovetti/vairedb: VaireDB is a cloud native, high performance distributed analytical database.

VaireDB is a cloud native, high performance distributed analytical database. - matteobovetti/vairedb

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🚀 Zed v1.13 is out! The branch picker now offers a cleaner filtering experience for viewing All, Local, or Remote branches. In the All view, local and remote branches are grouped into separate sections. Thanks chirivelli!

After many work done during the last 4 months, VaireDB is finally out on my personal GitHub. github.com/matteobovett... I'm working for close the gap to release v0.1 in the upcoming months. #database #analytical #vairedb

GitHub - matteobovetti/vairedb: VaireDB is a cloud native, high performance distributed analytical database.

VaireDB is a cloud native, high performance distributed analytical database. - matteobovetti/vairedb

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Recording of yesterday's open source maintenance stream is now up! We got through left-right (a concurrency primitive), HdrHistogram (a fun data structure), rust-imap (you guessed it), and inferno (the Rust port of flamegraph) in about 5 hours — OSS is no joke 😅 youtu.be/bAINppA0BSU

Open Source Maintenance, 2026-07-18

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🚀 Zed v1.9 is out! Zed's pickers are resizable, with a live preview option. Very Telescope! 🔭 Thanks ozacod!

After completing the transition to Ghost, I've finally published issue 3 of the Something Big Is Happening series. To celebrate the move, this issue is available to everyone for free! It covers AI and SWE, OSS projects, AI enshittification and fossil fuel investments. rush.mn/x9hVGL

Something Big is Happening #3

More reports on the impact of AI on software engineering, a look at the growing enshittification of digital products through AI, and how the tech industry is dealing with the climate crisis

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securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/03/25/a... is very very good. If you read my vulnerabilities post, this podcast episode is much more worth listening to.

AI Finds Vulns You Can’t With Nicholas Carlini

Returning champion Nicholas Carlini comes back to talk about using Claude for vulnerability research, and the current vulnpocalypse. It’s all very high-brow ...

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🚀 Zed v1.8 is out! The new `agent.terminal_init_command` setting runs a command automatically whenever you open a new terminal thread in the agent panel.