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...

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...

Is it artist - title or is it title - artist

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

Ever wonder where to meet us? We’ve listed the events we’ll be attending this year, and we are speaking at many of them. See the full list on our blog: ferrous-systems.com/blog/where-t... If you’re attending, too, we’d love to connect!

Fixed a bug in aarch32-rt today so now it runs on a real ARM7TDMI based chip. Took me a few hours to figure it out though - turns out this processor just straight up doesn’t have a CP15 and any attempt to access it is an instant Undefined Instruction exception.

Ted Chiang is brilliant. He takes the question of AI consciousness to its logical conclusion—really a must-read, right down to the last word: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

LNER have sold me a ticket including a trip on an Avanti West Coast train, and it's apparently impossible to change the seat reservation. The whole system needs to go in the bin. I can't wait for a unified GBR app that fixes this nonsense.

We're proud to announce the first release of our latest data compression project, Zstandard in Rust! Read why we did this, the current state of the project, and where we're hoping to take it: buff.ly/JoruN7e Thanks to Chainguard, Astral, NLnet Foundation, and @sovereign.tech. #rustlang #opensource

Jet Lag: The Game is pure joy and I love it. I’ve binge watched 13 seasons. A few left to go.

I GOT THE DOMAIN! I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!1 🥳🎉 Paint​.NET is now at paint.net! Well, it will be just as soon as I push all the buttons to migrate content and set up redirects from getpaint​.net etc. For now it's just a "hey go here" redirect page.

There is a new YouTube show hosted by Aaron Samuels from Mean Girls called How Hard Can It Be? where average men who think they can do hard stuff like beat female tennis champions actually try it. Ep 1 is landing a plane in an emergency 10/10 recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eivs...

Ok I have six vintage RISC UNIX machines, plus two Pis, four keyboards, four screens (one is a spare), two CD changers, a spare hard drive, a spare power supply, a box of mains leads and a box of scsi cables. I think we’re good to … Ah, crap. underwear. I should pack some.

eurorust.eu/talks/tales-... Lots of great talks at EuroRust. And this aging idiot banging on about ancient processors or something.

Delighted to share that Rust Foundation Silver Members Ferrous Systems & @kdab-com.bsky.social have stepped up to sponsor our livestream + recording. This helps us offset the costs of making #rustconf a truly global event! More on Ferrous Systems: ferrous-systems.com More on KDAB: www.kdab.com

Tickets for RetroFest in Swindon (UK) are now sold out for the Saturday, with some Sunday tickets left. So you should get one soon if you want to come.

Excuse me, what now? malus.sh > Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch. The result? Legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live Amy Winehouse Therapy Hanson The Darkness Feeder Green Day Queen + Paul Rogers Muse Foo Fighters Public Service Broadcasting

OK, maybe today's the day I move from Google Drive to pCloud.

You'll be pleased to note that I've typed long rants about people being jerks on The Internet into this box and I've deleted each and every one of them. Highly recommended.

I wanted to write about asynchrous time, but first I have to give you a history lesson: thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-20...

I worked out how to do embassy on Cortex-R52 :) github.com/embassy-rs/e...

I bought a Sound Blaster Audigy LS and the OSS drivers for Solaris aren't working - the audio is all garbled. I bought a BlueSCSI DB25 case from JLCPCB and it arrived bent and twisted. I bought 2x 64MB ECC EDO DIMMs and they don't work in my SPARCengine. Not a great day TBH.

This paper finds that Rust on an microcontroller costs you about 10% extra flash space, actually saves you a bunch of RAM, and takes no extra time to deliver (as compared to C). Seems about right - especially as the C version needed a heap and the Rust version did not. arxiv.org/pdf/2604.25679

I have Windows NT 4 set up now - but what should I install on it? Give me stuff that no self-respecting late 90s workstation should go without. I only have 120 MB of RAM and no 3D graphics so I’m not looking for game recommendations.

I see a lot of posts about OSS recently. Please help - how do I make it support my Sound Blaster Live! on Solaris 8. I'm pretty sure it should work.

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. This is amazing.

In fact there's *so much* cool stuff at RetroFest that I'm probably leaving my Silicon Graphics O2 at home because it's not interesting or weird enough.

I just drilled out twelve rivets from my stupid mid-2000s gamer case and removed the hard drive cage - all so I could fit a Pentium III in it alongside the UltraSPARC IIi it already contains. You must come to Swindon to witness this monstrosity.

This is normal.

I installed Diablo II for the first time today. Took me ages to find the cave, and I died before I got out. But I think I want to have another go? It’s quite good.

SAE JA1020 contains a lot of good advice for writing Rust, and am going to try and follow its recommendations from now on. www.sae.org/news/blog/sa...

The earliest DOS source code was found on printer paper in Tim Paterson's garage so we've open sourced it on 86-DOS 1.00’s 45th anniversary! This is next-level software archaeology for preservation, and plain ol’ curiosity. #DOS #RetroComputing opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04...

Oxidize Conference line-up is now out: oxidizeconf.com Four really interesting Embedded Rust workshops there on day one. And I'm not deliverying any of them for once!

I found a stick of 128MB PC100 SDRAM on the shelf, and I am very happy about this.