We started the Diplomat Rust FFI project as a way to scale ICU4X (a Rust library) to many target languages. Since then, multiple other clients have discovered Diplomat, and through the magic of open source, we have new targets including Kotlin and Python. You should consider using Diplomat, too!

I considered going to the Thursday night bash at the Legion of Honor museum tonight. Google Maps said, 1hr away from downtown, then 1hr back to go to Oakland. I wasn't going to spend 2hrs in transit. The lack of a Geary Subway causes real economic losses. #SFMUNI #SFBART 🚇

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I was about to write a post praising Deutchebahn for a pleasant journey from Amsterdam to Frankfurt... but the train terminated at Flughafen instead of Hauptbanhof, and now I'm on the platform with thousands of other frustrated passengers waiting for 30 minutes for the S-bahn that keeps not coming

I've taken 16 trains in 5 countries while traveling through Europe this month. My ranking: (1) NS InterCity (Netherlands). Lots of seats, quiet, clean, level boarding, punctual. (My anecdotal experience!) (2) SBB InterCity (Switzerland). Quiet, punctual, clean, more crowded but enough seats. 🧵

The German ICE trains are consistently late, standing room only (even in 1st class), expensive, and not really that fast. The RE trains seem to be more on time, less crowded, inexpensive, and not really that slow. Is the stress of ICE trains worth the few minutes it sometimes saves? 🚄

The Clipper reader is broken on this bus but there's a fare inspector onboard giving people trouble because everyone is riding without paying. 🤷 #SFMUNI #transit

It's a regular occurrence for a car, taxi, or even another bus to be blocking a bus stop and obstructing the view. Is it the responsibility of the passenger to proactively monitor the traffic and flag down the bus 😳, or for the bus driver to honk and alert the passenger? 🪿 #transit

@bridainep.bsky.social Nice talk today at UTC! In one of your slides you talked a bit about Sean being pronounced as either Shane or Shaun depending on diacritics. I would be curious if you could elaborate on the etymology of these two names and how the vowel sound changed!

I guess I'll have to blog about this tomorrow, but "LOL, Trump TACO'ed out" is decidedly not the right reaction as compared to "that kind of brinkmanship is really fucking dangerous". Original post

PSA: Since the retirement of Kubernetes Ingress-Nginx [^1], I've been very happy using F5 NGINX Ingress Controller [^2]. I should have been using it all along. Yes, I was confused about the naming, too. #k8s #nginx [^1]: kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/ [^2]: docs.nginx.com/nginx-ingres...

There need to be consequences for leaders who avoid solving the root causes of problems. A first step: institute a threshold for ATC staffing (if one exists, it clearly isn't enough), and when an airport falls below the threshold, don't clear flights to land until more controllers come on duty.

A big accomplishment! As a champion, it is rewarding to move the needle on dates and times not only in JavaScript but across the industry, especially for non-Gregorian calendars. And as an implementer, ICU4X was born in part out of Temporal and now powers Chrome, Boa, and Kiesel. 🎉

Overheard people who make six figures complaining that BART, which needs the money, is raising their fares, from $4.88 to $5.15 on average. 🤨

I am absolutely a fan of upgraded train cars on regional trains, like the Keihan railway between Osaka and Kyoto. Every city should have these. 🚇

It was great to visit Tokyo for JSConf.jp and TC39 last week! Now I'm down in Kyoto being mesmerized by the fall colors. 🍁

Did I just see an ad with the Oakland Ballers on the World Series? @oaklandballers.bsky.social ⚾

$ rust -v Command rust not found 😔 $ rustc -v error: no input filename given error: aborting due to 1 previous error 😠 (finally worked with rustc --version)

Really exciting to see this finally coming together! It's been a long journey for myself and many others, and I'm very happy with where we've landed.

I've heard people describe the Oakland Ballers as a "low-level minor league team". Wrong: they are a team of high-caliber players disenfranchised from MLB, like their fans. Just look at Bufford, Almanza, Chewy, etc, all very talented, and manager Aaron Miles, a World Series alum. #LetsGoOakland ⚾

💚 💛 Ballers fam, @MayorBarbaraLee just announced that we're going to keep the party going! 🎉 See you there! 🍾

OAKLAND WE DID IT!!!! 🏆

What does it say when Idaho Falls intentionally WALKS Christian Almanza, not once but TWICE in the same game for the Pioneer League championship? He's the silver slugger of Oakland, baby! #LetsGoOakland ⚾ @oaklandballers.bsky.social

It's the final game of the People's World Series! Come on Bay Area, let's turn up for another sell-out!

Great game! Nice work Gabe Tanner for staying focused and allowing only 2 runs on almost 100 pitches, and Cam Bufford for the textbook 3-run homer to finish off the 8th! Here's a clip of Sully's last pitch of the game! #LetsGoOakland 🟩🟨⚾

I'll be there! We'll remind everyone that Oakland has the best fans in baseball.

"I previously used VSCode, but they added Copilot and it scared me so not I use neovim" -- anonymous presenter at Rust conf

@transit.app Please add more features to customize your route. Example: to go from Oakland to Palo Alto, I want to build a custom itinerary that uses the N, T, 15, 30, 55, Waymo, Baywheels, or other connection to transfer between BART and Caltrain in downtown SF instead of transferring at Millbrae.

I was riding the #SFBART 🟧 from Berryessa toward Richmond. When the train arrived at 19th St, the 🟨 hadn't arrived yet, and we continued to MacArthur. Then, we waited there for the Antioch train. Anyone who got off the 🟨 at 19th, as they're told to do, missed their connection tonight!

Not happy with #SFMUNI tonight: 2nd time *in a row* for me that route 55 has not come. It's not late; it just *never came* to bring me from Dogpatch to BART. It's also impossible to track because this is the second stop on the line, so I can't verify whether it's on its way or not. 🚍😞

Perfect ending to a fun game! #LetsGoOakland ⚾

In business school, @southwest.com is literally a case study in how differentiation from competitors leads to success. That's the main problem with these changes (flying to bigger airports, assigned seating, checked bags becoming a credit card perk): it makes Southwest a commodity airline. ✈️

In this talk, I tell the story of how we're leveraging the Rust programming language to accelerate the Temporal implementation in V8. 🦀🦖

Aboard the Caltrain: nice Stadler EMUs, but the announcements sound like they're from outer space, and the screens are dead. 🚄🔩

A great experience speaking at RustWeek and sharing how Unicode is leveraging Rust to make internationalization more lightweight, portable, and secure! What an incredible audience and venue! See the recording of my talk below, a whirlwind tour of ICU4X and Beyond in 20 minutes!

Worth the trek to A Coruña for the #WebEnginesHackfest! Lots of fruitful discussions with brilliant people in scenic surroundings. What more could you want? 🌊

Jonas Haukenes, Mikhail Barash and @sffc.bsky.social giving case studies of contributing to JS engines…and sharing a third-party library (in Rust!) to simplify implementation of Temporal

Looking forward to discussing how we've been accelerating the Temporal proposal by sharing Rust code between Boa and V8. 🐍🦀🦖

At the Rust 10th birthday party and live release party in Utrecht! 🥳🦀

@fractalfir.bsky.social Nice talk today at RustWeek. Do you think something like rustc_codegen_clr could be used in Diplomat to generate .NET bindings into Rust libraries without FFI? github.com/rust-diploma...

Most board games are printed in China, and most publishers are small businesses. The president needs to give a small-business exemption to the tariffs so show that he supports American entrepreneurs. 🎲✂️👨‍💼📊

I've stopped using X/Twitter not because of political persuasion but because the app has really gone downhill. 1. I see way more ads and other distracting content. 2. I can't share links to my feed because it's behind a paywall. 3. I've been locked out of my amount multiple times for no reason.

We need "green cars" on #SFBART, like JR East has on local trains in Tokyo: one car per train with tables and comfy seats, closer to a Caltrain or Amtrak experience. I bet affluent commuters would pay an extra $5 or more per ride, helping close the budget deficit. donnykimball.com/green-car-db...

I look down over the #SFBART MacArthur transfer station. Seems like more days than not, the 🟨 to SFO is late for the 🟧 timed transfer. Meanwhile, the 🟥 arrives just a few minutes later. Little inefficiencies like this cost commuters hours each month. Suggestions below 🧵

Looking forward to it!

Can someone please explain to me the obsession many people have with In-N-Out and Chick-fil-A? Although I stopped eating meat a long time ago, I don't recall these places ever being all that different from other burger and chicken joints. 🤷‍♂️

Wow, all transit service halted in San Jose, California due to a labor strike. While I support collective bargaining, labor is VTA's single biggest cost. I hope they can work out a deal good for people who live and work in the county, keeping frequent service to many destinations. 👨‍💼🚍🚋

Suggestion for @sfmta.com: There's no route between Golden Gate Park and the Marina. The 44 should continue from Inner Richmond north into the Presidio and east to Fort Mason along the 43's alignment. Meanwhile, merge the 2 and the rest of the 43 to make a Sutter/Masonic line. 🚌📍🌉

Any other game designers heading to Spielwarenmesse in Germany later this month? 🎲✂️

Fare inspectors on #SFBART today, a first for me! 🚇