At #rustconf: "Project Goals :: Funding :: Chocolate :: Peanut Butter": @nikomatsakis.com explores how the Rust Foundation & Project are turning Rust demand into maintainer 💰️. 🎟️ : rustconf.com/register?utm_source=rustconf_bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=week_july20 Schedule: sched.co/2KI4F
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Weird Al meets Grace Hopper. Rustacean. He/him. I work for @AWSCloud. Opinions on twitter and elsewhere are my own.
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...
Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby · baby steps
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I loved this game! This and Pool of Radiance. Such epic games.
1990's Buck Rogers: Countdown To Doomsday saw SSI adapt the classic comic & TTRPG into a complex tactical video game RPG.
Is there a way to watch World Cup games for free from within the US? Possibly with a VPN? Asking for a friend.
Who maintains blessed.rs and libs.rs and how do I get in touch with them? Inquiring minds want to know…
Crate List - Blessed.rs
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'Growing with our users: How the Rust Project is reshaping our communication' by Jack Huey and Niko Matsakis at RustWeek 2026! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu17... @nikomatsakis.com #rustlang #RustWeek
Growing with our users: How the Rust Project is reshaping our communication (Niko&Jack at RustWeek)
Growing with our users: How the Rust Project is reshaping our communication by Jack Huey and Niko Matsakis. Over the past fifteen years, Rust has grown from a small project used by Mozilla and few…
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Do folks know of a lint to detect things that are "more public than they need to be"? I'd like to go so far as to document with `expect` or something the stuff my crate *intends* to expose to the outside world and get warnings about anything else.
Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.
> **only bounds** are going to be the most impactful change to Rust that you’ve never heard of. This post explores the feature and aims to answer a particular question about the design (the scope of bounds, I’ll explain). smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/bl...
Only Bounds · baby steps
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Any Rust crates that make sandboxing processes portable and easy? (e.g., bubblewrap on linux, etc)
Coming to RustConf in Montréal? Don't book full price. 🦀 We've reserved discounted room blocks at 8 hotels near the venue — rates from $239 CAD, some a 2-min walk away. Blocks start closing July 8, so book early! 🏨 rustconf.com/venue-travel/
Venue + Travel - RustConf 2026
RustConf 2026 is hosted at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal, September 8-11. Find travel tips, hotel info, and directions here.
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Just gave my 3rd talk in as many weeks. So glad to be done preparing talks for a while.
The 'panic' around Lia Thomas was about creating a target people could point at while demanding exclusion. So much of what people “know” about Lia comes from manufactured outrage and years of misinformation repeated without context. We commissioned this comic to break down the actual story. 1/2
I've added an AI policy to ripgrep that was shamelessly copied from uv's policy. I plan to add this to the rest of my projects, but if anyone wants to offer feedback on wording, now would be a good time! github.com/BurntSushi/r...
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I’m a sucker for a good musician movie. Song Sung Blue had me laughing and crying on the plane ride home. Loved it.
It's so hard to do, but I realize that I'm at my most convincing when my goal is to be convinced.
Sad that RustWeek is over, and glad I got to spend the week with so many wonderful people. Next time you are delighted by how a Rust feature works, say thanks to all these folks who spent the week hashing out every possible edge case! Can't wait for next year's RustWeek! #rustweek #rustweek2026
It is of course amazing that Dutch trains have free internet. Also dang is it slow.
Rage Against the Machine’s “Wake Up” remains a timeless classic. I mean the whole album really. Hot damn.
This’ll be fun
** Speaker announcement ** This Tuesday, Jack and @nikomatsakis.com present several initiatives that the Rust Project is undertaking, and participating in, to reshape how they listen to and collaborate with Rust users. Info & tickets: buff.ly/Gjj6D8T See you in Utrecht! #rustweek2026 #rustlang
This undercurrent within the #rustlang community (and others) has to stop. The attacks on people simply because they are using developer tools that make them productive is 100% out of line. I can respect the anti-LLM arguments, but let's agree to disagree, respect each other as humans, and move on.
prepping for rustweek, bracing to cross paths with all the people who decided to call me a booster/traitor/fascist for using LLMs, the people who blocked me without saying anything, the people who maintain lists of who to shun. a lot has happened in a year that I'm not done grieving about.
What struck me most about this article is the phrase lollipop people. How delightful. :)
‘We’re not out to get anyone – we just want to slow you down’: why do lollipop people face so much road rage?
No offense to France but I do enjoy being back in the US where I can actually get a mug of coffee filled all the way instead of 1/3.
Does anybody know of an iOS app like Good Notes that is open source?
Ooh this is gonna be interesting
🔦 #rustconf 2026 Speaker Spotlight: "BorrowSanitizer: Securing Rust Across Foreign Function Boundaries" presented by Ian McCormack (PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University) ➡️ Find this session on our schedule: sched.co/2KHtb 🎟️ Book your spot today! bit.ly/4tLbAkd
I continue to be deeply angry that there are not public toilets at EVERY train and transit center.