I’ll never forgive AI for stigmatizing my beloved em-dash

It's been a month since #rustconf 2025, but the buzz is still strong! 🦀 Revisit the magic via these videos on the @rustfoundation.org YouTube channel, incl. sessions, keynotes, & this highlight reel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw_I... +Don’t miss these event pics 📸 www.flickr.com/photos/rustf...

I’m looking for an intern to work on Rust/RustRover content creation. If you are a university student in any EU country, the UK, Serbia, or Armenia, and you are passionate about Rust and sharing your knowledge, I’d love to hear from you. Please repost to help spread the word. Links below.

Casey Muratori pretty much sums up how I feel about LLMs for coding: "The AI will always be useless for me. I physically can't get what I want from programming when AI is involved, because what it is doing is robbing me of the experience that I wanted to have and the knowledge that I wanted to get"

If you want something to do during the weekend, I highly recommend checking out my new book! things-i-wish-i-knew.com

Junie beta is now available in CLion! Supercharge your development workflows with the power of Junie inside your favorite C and C++ IDE. Automate your routine tasks, generate tests or write complete bug fixes throught just a conversation in CLion! Try it now 👉 jb.gg/CL_junie

This is one of the standout talks of EuroRust 2024. “I/O in Rust: the whole story” by @bravit.bsky.social takes you into devices, syscalls, and what really happens when your code says read(). Watch it again👇🏼

Rust debugging feels... mysterious? @bravit.bsky.social breaks it down — from DWARF to RustRover — and shows how to make the most of modern Rust debuggers. 🔍 Demystifying Rust Debugging #rustlang #rustlab2025

Here's my review of “Refactoring to Rust” by @lily.lily.lilydotlily.gay‬ and Joel Holmes, published recently by Manning Publications. The book is amazing! I really love it! vitaly-reads.beehiiv.com/p/vitaly-rea... ‪

New RustRover 2025.2 just dropped! I heard it is a solid IDE for Rust. 🦀 ⚔️ I'll be trying it out LIVE this Friday at 4PM UTC 🐭 Going to do maintenance for @ratatui.rs ▶️ Tune in: www.youtube.com/live/UXnxzWb... ❤️ Huge thanks to JetBrains for sponsoring the stream & supporting Ratatui #rustlang

Returning to work after parental leave can be challenging. Watch @jmargaritan.bsky.social’s Devoxx UK 2025 talk where she shared her personal journey, practical tips, and strategies for a successful transition. View @ www.devoxx.co.uk//talk?id=17292

As a final preparation for the #PyO3 workshop tomorrow at #EuroPython, I have updated some exercises to ensure thread-safety. We are ready for #FreeThreaded #Python! Make sure you have the setup ready: github.com/Cheukting/py...

The only way to get an approximation of a correct bit of code from an AI is to ask the right questions (i.e., create the correct prompt). It seems to me that, as a profession, we have been struggling to ask the right questions for 80 years now. It's a hard problem.

I've just updated my old blog post about #rustlang and #bevy with a link to a nice re-implementation of the Chrome Dino game: github.com/ludi317/dino.... Also, don't miss the origin story in the README file. Don't be afraid of teaching your kids coding! blog.jetbrains.com/rust/2025/02...

New video about Bazel! I'm trying to make a scary thing less scary and easily approachable with @intellijidea.com and our new Bazel plugin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLvn...

Discover the essentials of AI governance with Michelle Frost’s session from Devoxx UK 2025! Learn how new laws impact your work and how to design AI systems that align with both regulations and values. Gain practical tools to balance innovation and accountability in AI. devoxx.co.uk//talk?id=18795

Curious about Rust but worried about starting from scratch? Watch @bravit.bsky.social‬’s Devoxx UK talk to discover how Java developers can strategically integrate Rust without rewriting everything. Learn about interop techniques and migration strategies. View @ www.devoxx.co.uk//talk?id=6971

A huge thank you to our inaugural 2025 #RustConf sponsors: GOLD: @jetbrains.com, @microsoft.com SILVER: Arm More to announce soon! Without support from our sponsors, #rustconf25 wouldn't be possible. Learn more about sponsorship here: rustconf.com/become-a-spo...

We are happy to announce @jetbrains.com as first sponsor for RustLab 2025. Thanks to their efforts we're going to have their Developer Advocate @bravit.bsky.social at our conference! Wanna join them? rustlab.it/sponsors

The new version of my book "Functional Programming Ideas for Curious Kotliners" has been released! The final version has been updated to use context parameters, and contains updated sections on persistent collections and composables. leanpub.com/fp-ideas-kot...

Sometimes you don’t need to make silly faces to get views…

Thanks engagement from @inesmontani.bsky.social at #PyDataLondon and help from @nearestnabors.com, we are launching #FeministAi #Meetup in #London, please join our next event on 9th July and follow our event calendar on Luma. Links in the comments. @feministai-ldn.bsky.social @feministai.party

By the way, I've reviewed this book back in February: vitaly-reads.beehiiv.com/p/vitaly-rea... Still not ready with my 3rd issue, unfortunately.

This is so true. And even with the adjusted expectations, one still needs to be fully committed to completing it. Getting there isn't always guaranteed.

🎉 Speaker lineup announced! RustConf 2025 is bringing together some of the most exciting voices in Rust — from global adopters to project maintainers to AI researchers and beyond. Explore the full speaker list → rustconf.com/speakers Full program and registration to come! @rustfoundation.org

My talk from @rustnl.bsky.social #rustweek is up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuBk...

🚨 EPISODE 1 IS LIVE 🚨 Weekly Devs Brew podcast ft. @marktechson.com talking education, tech interviews, and why the browser is basically magic now listen here: youtu.be/4suWS0fs1C4

On Monday, June 2nd, 19:00 CET, together with Ken Kousen, @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy, we will put Claude Code and JetBrains Junie side by side. We will experiment with the tools and see how they perform in different scenarios. Chime in to learn and have fun! www.youtube.com/live/VDvCrGf...

Dive into ‘‘Creative Live Coding with OpenRNDR’’ by @antonarhipov.bsky.social on demand. Discover how to use Kotlin to craft expressive, eye-catching visuals and generative art. From geometric shapes to live performances, unleash your inner artist with code! Watch here - buff.ly/FHzAJ2P

[Access granted: @jetbrains social credentials] `kodee.kt: takeover()` Hey KotlinConf. It’s Kodee now. Let’s cause just the right amount of trouble.

ReSharper in #VSCode: Public Preview Begins! 🚀 The legendary C# productivity toolkit has just become available for Visual Studio Code. Your editor may change, but your ReSharper benefits remain. Dive into the details here: jb.gg/rs-in-vscode... #dotnet #visualstudio #csharp #.net #jetbrains

One great perk of speaking at @devoxxuk is getting professional photos! Credit: @ddoutsiopoulos.bsky.social

It was an awesome experience presenting at @devoxx.uk. Finally, I had a chance to talk about my hobby at the conference :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qekK... #kotlin

🦀 We are proud to announce the Schedule for RustLab 2025! It’s not completed yet: there will be some minor changes or additions, especially in the workshops and social events areas, but this is it! Take a look at it and join us now! 🤗 👉 rustlab.it/schedule

Happy to see the role of @jetbrains.com in supporting Rust infrastructure mentioned in this blogpost. We support Rust in our IDEs since 2016. A year ago we've released RustRover, a dedicated IDE for Rust. Long live Rust!

Come and join us for the UK’s favourite Java centred developer conference and gain invaluable insights directly from industry experts. Form long-lasting professional connections that will get you ahead in your career. Don’t miss out, tickets are running low! 7-9 May | bit.ly/3QCMu5e

We've overhauled the AI plans, offering a free tier, and our AI coding agent Junie is now available for general access! blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/04...

Curious about integrating Rust into your Java projects? Join @bravit.bsky.social for "Luckily, You Don’t Have to Rewrite Everything in Rust". Learn about memory management, concurrency, and interop techniques to make Rust adoption smooth and strategic. Full details @ buff.ly/uFNOnBb

The 5th edition of my book, Django for APIs, is now available. It covers the latest version of Django (5.1), Django REST Framework (3.15), and much more. It's available as either an online course at learndjango.com/courses/djan... or a paperback on Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/173546728....

My second piece in Technical Book Reviews: vitaly-reads.beehiiv.com/p/vitaly-rea.... I wrote about my experience reading about AI and how books can be genuinely useful for certain aspects of my job, for example, for fixing bugs in the RustRover debugger! BTW, please subscribe. I need numbers!

I'm happy to be a part of @devoxx.uk this year! Let's talk about Rust!

I’m definitely not going to read 'The Rise of AI Agents: Integrating AI, Blockchain Technologies, and Quantum Computing', but I have to tip my hat to the title – managing to squeeze in every buzzword from the past decade is truly an art form.

I just got the final PDF of my book on how debuggers work! Looking forward to finding a typo on page 3 and renaming it _FINAL_2.pdf. Pre-orders are still 25% off:

Cyprus is an amazing destination for hiking. And we have snow here!

Hey! Wanna develop video games? blog.jetbrains.com/rust/2025/02...

I am very excited to tell you that we have started a collaboration with JetBrains @jetbrains.com , makers of IntelliJ IDEA @intellijidea.com and creators of the Kotlin language @kotlinlang.org, to integrate Kotlin into BlueJ @bluej.org. This will bring Kotlin to millions of learners of programming!

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