I am relieved to resolve my "watch this space" pun 😀, and announce the second set of Rust and Friends presenters this month will be Tiago Santos and Cafer Eren Şimşek talking about "Rust in Space at Spire" 🛰️ 🦀! #rustlang

🦀 It was already great to see the growing number of people attending the #rustlang pub/coffee meet-ups, but it's also nice to end the year on an even larger high, with another couple of great talks.

My daughter was annoyed that i generated a picture for my talk yesterday. Normally avoid AI generated images but it was a talk about vibe coding @aifortherestofus.live. So she drew me an alternative picture. This is a software developer that has replaced their keyboard with a tab button.

EuroRust is barely over and it's time for another pair of back-to-back rustandfriends.org Edinburgh 🍻/ ☕️ Meetups! We have these Meetups every couple of months and they are an opportunity to ask questions / share interesting stuff / meet other #rustlang folks.

It's almost time for another #MLOps session and I am super-looking forward to Joan Figuerola Hurtado and Richard Bownes talks: luma.com/u8344qcq

We just hit 93,000 members. We're polling on average higher than we have ever before. Over 1000 people joining a day! Join our movement. Join.greenparty.org.uk

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It’s really cool to see what’s getting built using the components of the composable data stack like Apache Datafusion, Apache Arrow, and Apache Iceberg. Cloudflare’s R2SQL is just another example of what’s possible. Hey @columnar.tech where is the driver for this?

It's🍁and it's time for another #MLOps Edinburgh Meetup! In October we are joined by Joan Figuerola Hurtado talking about “From Blue Links to Answers: How Agents Enable A New Era of Information Access and Discovery" and Richard Bownes on "Bring-your-own-tooling in the age of AI" . luma.com/u8344qcq

You should come to @londonwebstandards.org #sotb2026 Early bird tickets are £70 And if you can’t afford it apply for a diversity ticket 2026.stateofthebrowser.com

And now there are two sticker sheets. Look, there's even an early bird tumshie! 😆🌰🍁🍂🍄🍎 #illustration #stickers

Many thanks to #BCS Edinburgh for hosting me this week to talk about " #rustlang : Squeezable, Modern, Helpful, Wide". As promised, the slides with various links are now available. If you want to find out more, please do join us at the monthly Rust Edinburgh Meetup (see rustandfriends.org )

This is clearly where this is all going

Hot on the heels of the Rust Meetups in August (see my previous post), I have the privilege of talking about #rustlang in front of Edinburgh British Computer Society chapter on Wed 3rd Sept (open to all):

It's August in Edinburgh. It's busy 🏃. It's sweltering 💦. But still: there is always space for #Rustlang 🦀! As is now usual, we have a couple of events in the same week to cater to different preferences (🍻/ ☕️). Please feel free to come to both 🙂 (details below)

Absolutely bleak article. The product managers being scolded solidifies my stance that you can’t change a company from within. Especially if you work for the devil himself.

sure enough i am not having my liver pecked out every morning but there is some greek tragedy vibes going on every time i open the ai discourse i studied ai and machine translation two decades ago and i feel like i got inoculated from the magical thinking, or at least shed naive beliefs earlier on

Back in the 90's I remember one particular winter in Edinburgh when I was starting University, next to Pollock Halls, and my god it snowed. It was like, proper Winter Wonderland stuff. Since then? Hmmphf. So, is it snowing less? geo.houseofmoran.io/posts/2025-0...

It's a small thing but a lot of small things can make a difference: www.justgiving.com/page/andrew-...

Tue 22nd 📆 July 2025 - MLClub with ML Club, Glasgow

🦀 Coming up this Thursday (24th)! Really looking forward to it 😀 We still have some spaces left, so please do grab one whilst you can.

not now little-known-but-important circulation system of the Southern Ocean, don't be collapsing now

Next Thursday the 10th July is our 3-year Anniversary of running the #MLOps Meetup in Edinburgh! Stefano Bosisio and myself are really looking forward to hearing our two guests, Pat Wang and Mark Mc Naught talk on practical applications of GenAI and Agents: lu.ma/w5545zei

Like #Rustlang? #Chess? What about #AI? Then how about "Exploring a State-of-the-art Chess AI built with Rust"? Please come along to hear from our second speaker, @affinelytyped.bsky.social , at the July Edition of Rust Edinburgh: www.meetup.com/rust-and-fri...

Quite nice to finally scratch an itch and (re-add) water support to my Biscuits #geo side project, this time in the Linzer incarnation: geo.houseofmoran.io/posts/2025-0...

Really pleased to announce another #rustlang Edinburgh Meetup, coming up in July, this time with a very intriguing title 😀 Many thanks to @travelperk.bsky.social for hosting us once again. Hope to see you there!

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🚨 We have less than 24 hours left 🚨 Join over 8,000 people and ask your MP to decriminalise abortion 👇 goodlaw.social/f2eef3

Reproductive rights are under attack! Take 2 mins to write to your MP TODAY to demand that abortion is decriminalised action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...

People on LinkedIn are taking "Stealth Startup" a bit too far ...

I’ve written to the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament about their transphobic toilet guidance with @goodlawroject.bsky.social. Join me and add your voice: action.goodlawproject.org/stop-scottis...

Coming up in June we have another couple of rustandfriends.org events. We're planning a presentations event for July, but these in June are our smaller events hosted in cafe and bar to get together and chat. Please choose whichever suits you but welcome at both! 😀 #rustlang

Our USING KEY variant of recursive CTEs has landed in DuckDB 1.3 Formerly an off-the-beaten-path researchy idea, now available in a real off-the-shelf DBMS. Hooray! 🎉 duckdb.org/2025/05/23/u...

We're counting down days! Here’s Everything You Need to Know for Local-First Conf 2025

New blog post: Using flow field pathfinding on a voronoi procedurally generated map to simulate 20,000 traders moving around www.redblobgames.com/blog/2025-05...

Just gonna leave this here...

The future of web development is swinging back to basics. CSS and HTML are the most exciting things in web development right now. And don't worry about getting left behind because these features are here to stay. We're just getting started 🥳 #usetheplatform

Hey, did you know it's May? Time for #mermay, I guess.

A series of info visualizations that show how true “based on a true story” Hollywood movies actually are. Selma & The Big Short top the list with Hacksaw Ridge & The Imitation Game bringing up the rear. [informationisbeautiful.net]

Want to learn how to use a knitting machine or find out a bit about hacked knitting machines? I've got spaces available in May and June. www.madeleineshepherd.co.uk/section88805...

Some people asked me how best to stay in touch for the next #MLOps Edinburgh Meetup, and really it should be as easy as hitting "subscribe" on lu.ma/scotland-mlops . However, please let me know if this doesn't work for you or if you have any problems.

i’m sorry i don’t usually repost this kind of stuff but this is just so funny. there’s an intangibility to it..

What if... now hear me out here.. what if AI is not a fundamental shift in the world order? And is merely a tool? An tool that's imperfect at times but useful some of time? And completely useless at other times? 🤯 Has anyone in our industry considered that?

Just a little more to go to 180k. People agree that trans people, like all people, deserve to live with freedom, safety, and dignity.

Time is of the essence and we need to fight the EHRC interim guidance before it becomes statutory and Parliament make it law. Don’t just shout about it, write to them. Also tell the media, if you can get them to care. I’ve posted this on Instagram. Speak to your unions and staff networks at work

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

The final talk from #SotB2025 @pimpmytype.bsky.social - Typographer vs. Accessibility Is now available for your viewing pleasure. 2025.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/oliv... #Fonts #Typography #a11y #Accessibility

It's *less than a week* until the next #MLOps Edinburgh session (lu.ma/2spfbnk8) and we have not one but two talks! It'll be great hearing from Danny on “Scaling an LLM-Based Product Feature at Zoe" and Csoban of @skyscanner.net talking about "Designing MLOps for configurability and observability".