2025 and progress bars continue to be a hard problem.

Building MCP servers is the perfect excuse to level up your input validation and user documentation. 😄

🏆 Winners of the first-ever #ai meets #tlaplus challenge: 🥇 From code to TLA+ specs, automatically. 🥈 Grammar-constrained AI that speaks TLA+. 🥉 Generating correct Rust from TLA+ specs. Full details 👉 foundation.tlapl.us/challenge

Amazing how companies you've been giving money to for months suddenly no longer get your name right. Is this the result of too much vibe coding at Hertz?

Controversial take: The rejection of this Quint-related proposal (github.com/strimzi/prop...) suggests that people's real challenge with TLA+ isn't its syntax—it's the semantics.

It's wonderful to be writing again at Decentralized Thoughts! This time focusing on how we can tie together the messy reality of real-world distributed system to the elegant formal models we often use instead for reasoning about correctness. decentralizedthoughts.github.io/2025-05-23-s...

It's smart casual verification (like the dress code) instead of causal verification but still it's fab to see our recent NSDI paper featured in the @msftresearch.bsky.social Research Focus.

As someone building a VSCode extension for #TLAplus, I have some questions about #VSCode, #Cursor, and #MCP. Would appreciate any insights! 🔗 forum.cursor.com/t/support-la... 🔗 github.com/microsoft/vs...

My notes from the 2025 TLA+ Community Event emptysqua.re/blog/2025-tl...

What actually works when selling formal methods in industry? What doesn't? The way Galois Principal Scientist @m-dodds.bsky.social sees it, many FM projects don’t pencil out not because clients are irrational, but because the cost/benefit tradeoffs don’t make sense. www.galois.com/articles/wha...

🔧 GenAI-Accelerated #TLAplus Challenge is live! Use GenAI to enhance TLA⁺ specs, tools, or workflows. Submit your project for a chance to win a prize. Details: foundation.tlapl.us/challenge/in...

[new blog post] Smart Casual Verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework (NSDI'25) muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/02/smar...

A big thank you to @muratdemirbas.bsky.social for covering our upcoming NSDI paper on his blog. The paper documents our adventures with “smart casual verification”, combining formal specification and model checking with validation of real execution traces from the Confidential Consortium Framework

Save the date! The TLA+ Community Event 2025 will take place on May 4, 2025, in Hamilton, Canada. This marks a first for our academic conference, as it will be held outside Europe for the very first time. conf.tlapl.us/2025-etaps/ #tlaplus