A post by @mara.bsky.social have been stuck in my head for about two months now so I just had to write out my thoughts on what the most central railway station in the Netherlands is: erk.dev/2026/06/21/t...

Backrooms has a pretty good advertisements

new little blog post! also its a bit prettier now selvmaya.com/blog/old-int...

I made a bot which posts random frames from The Simpsons every couple hours. if you like The Simpsons then maybe give it a follow :) subtitles and alt text supported!

Resolution test (Big Buck Bunny available here: peach.blender.org)

I was recently diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder called anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. It's a "disease of chaos" that completely upturned my life for a couple months. I wrote a blog about it that goes into more detail and discusses prognosis. :-) burntsushi.net/encephalitis/

"XHGSY JKSK HSG SVSGUL?" clearly must be a coded message.

Thanks to @erk.dev, the clippy lint for this just merged 🎉 github.com/rust-lang/ru...

I am writing up some questions for a Rust quiz tomorrow, anyone have any good questions that are both surprising and can be used to learn a thing or two?

WHEEEEEEEEEE github.com/rust-lang/ru...

After having a subpar setup for a long time, just running my website in a Zellij session I finally set up a service, and at the same time I set up continuous deployment. I wrote about it here: erk.dev/2026/04/20/f...

Pew pew, jeg opfordre alle til at være med i #edbspillet

🚨New YouTube video!!🚨 I’ve been using my investigate journalism powers to look into Razer’s disturbing holographic AI girlfriend jars ……Stay with me here

The Treachery of Images

Some fun compiler-adjacent #RustLang reading: How can you make sure [panic!] is unreachable in part of your program? This write-up goes into how we approached callgraph analysis in #Ferrocene – and how you can try it out for yourself! 👉 ferrous-systems.com/blog/callgra...

Cursed connector that we use at work, any guesses what it is for?

Zed Just released a updated terms of service agreement, you now must be at least 18 years old to use it. Also they now have a forced arbitration clause unless you opt out via snail- or e-mail within 30 days. zed.dev/blog/terms-u...

Going to a chemistry cabaret at my old uni tonight. It is the newest of the science cabarets so it is fun to see how the running gags evolve. My favourite gag from the past few years have been about how all chemicals should just go into the handwash.

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

Garfield February 16, 2026 https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2026/02/16

Garfield January 29, 2026 https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2026/01/29

Anyone want to drop by Byhaven/Pumpehuset with me tomorrow for some nice music and late night karaoke billetto.dk/e/vinterbyha...

And with that, we have reached our goal on Kickstarter!!! That went incredibly quickly and I don't know how to thank all of you. However!! We are not done yet!! But one of the scariest hurdles has been surmounted and we are bouncing off the walls here!! 🎉🎉🎉

Got a cute wooden fwrog LEGO brick seperator for scale

Shout out to @erk.dev for writing a new clippy lint to catch the surprising "`for i in `0..` {}` loops forever" behavior I bumped into this week!

To avoid a protracted legal battle in what would surely have been the trial of the century, Rail Clock is now Rail Cock. Please adjust your bookmarks accordingly. railcock.matteason.co.uk

🚀 Ferrocene 25.11.0 is out – and yes, it’s open source! Ships our first IEC 61508 (SIL 2)-certified subset of core, enabling certifiable Rust for safety-critical systems across multiple architectures. ⚙️ + updates from Rust 1.89 & 1.90. 🔗 Release Notes: public-docs.ferrocene.dev/main/release...

i think all highways should be replaced with trains

Put together a new version of the 10 crates that are a part of the Twilight a set of Rust libraries for Discord: github.com/twilight-rs/... #discordapi #rustlang

We’re so excited to share our exclusive Christmas jumper with you! 🦖🎄

The Call for Proposals for RustWeek 2026 is now open! If you’d like to give a talk, please submit your proposal via sessionize.com/rustweek-2026/ The CFP closes Dec 31. #rustweek2026 #rustlang

Visiting Hwarangdae Railway Park (화랑대 철도공원) and saw a tram from Hiroshima which is a bit away, apparently it was on use until 2017.

From one of the authors most known for stories with a rather positive outlook on technology Jules Verne's "Paris in the 20th century" is a interesting book, though rather bleak which was probably the reason it was not published before 1994.

Seems like GoComics digital printer ran out of black ink again.

Goodbye Netherlands

New Garfield format just dropped! At least to my knowledge this is the first 2x3 Garfield comic

Hello Netherlands

New blog post: erk.dev/2025/08/21/c...

I very much dislike facers, I really don't think it should be a thing

damn, he's pretty fly for a white guy

Got a Glove80, so now it's time to forget and relearn how to type

Garfield July 27, 1978 https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1978/07/27

Go follow my new bot that will post the daily Garfield comic strip every single day.

Garfield's worst nightmare (or how a API difference caused a bad bug) by Valdemar Erk at RustWeek 2025! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQd... #rustlang #RustWeek

The talk I did at #RustWeek about how a small difference in API's lead to a rather bad bug in my #Garfield bot is now live on YouTube, so you should all go and watch it. #rustlang www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQd...

The Garfield comic for today seems to be missing the colour black somehow. At time of writing this is how it looks on www.gocomics.com/garfield/202.... which is the official web syndicate of the comic.

Live from the 10 Years of Rust celebration in Utrecht, Netherlands, we are very happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.87.0! See the blog post and release notes for all the details! blog.rust-lang.org/2025/05/15/R...