It reflects well on a society when folks can unironically write songs like “Rasputin”

Had a chuckle, but honestly for folk who haven’t already learnt how to Build Stuff Goodly, this is a bit terrifying - the obligation to use the tools to _go fast_, without ever building a the muscles to properly supervise them

Clawdbot too powerful/terrifying for you? Introducing Geoff - a boring alternative - built _just for me_. Maybe all this AI vibe coding furor can usher back in the dream of PERSONAL computing - tools built by regular folk to scratch their own, particular itches.

It’s time for another blog on #systems engineering - this time about calling conventions - how do compilers emit machine code that let functions call each other, when the underlying CPU architecture has no concept of functions? Not sooo useful for building REST APIs, but nonetheless interesting :)

I switched a bunch of stuff I was running in the #homelab from k3s to plain old docker-compose, and dropped from 20% idle CPU usage to < 4%. CPU now spending about 80% of of its time in C7! I don't _need_ k8s for this stuff, and power is expensive, so ....

Thrilled to announce chapter 09 of the Rust Lambda book. In this one, we cover all things observability. If you're struggling to really understand your serverless applications, this one's the one for you. @loige.co 👀 #serverless #rust #rustlang rust-lambda.com

James Eastham and my latest video on software dev is up! We try to distill down when it makes sense and when not to microservice, hopefully without alienating too many folks. Have a listen and let us know what you think!

Yup

Incy Wincy Spider is Sisyphus for kids

Anna’s Archive backing up all of Spotify is like a feel good version of the GenAI folks stealing everyone’s copyrighted content to train their models

@jameseastham.co.uk and I are back again talking about software engineering! This time, we dive into API-first design - what it's good for, and how you can get started with it. Let us know what you think! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-R...

Not sure anyone I know on here cares, but it brings me great sadness that Scott aren't producing tele boots anymore

US State Department abolishing use of "Calibri" in documents because it is quote too diverse end quote is the most absurdly The Onion news I have read this year, and that is saying something

#cloudflare down again? Hopefully wont blame rust this time 🥹

The season of having my heart continuously broken by the snow forecast is upon us

Congrats to our APM team on the preview release of dd-trace-rs! Now we have a nice opinionated datadog tracer for Rust folks 🥰 github.com/DataDog/dd-t...

xkcd.com/3172/ ❤️

Zig’s moving to codeberg from github because of entshitification ! Proverbial canary ? ziglang.org/news/migrati...

@jameseastham.co.uk and I have released the inaugural _second episode_ (coughs loudly) of our video series on modern software development - this time on James' favourite thing, **Event Storming** - a great tool to dive into a domain you're about to build something in!

So ... the top is in?

Come listen to @jameseastham.co.uk and I ramble about software architecture!

Had a great time at @vdthess.bsky.social over the last few days talking about software quality. Enormous thanks to Pat and the rest of the organisers for putting on a great event!

Kalimera! #vdthess25

This is clever realization - you can use XDP also for fast **egress** by cleverly using veth pairs - #ebpf community continues to do wildly novel things ! loopholelabs.io/blog/xdp-for...

Gotta say it’s nice to wake up and see some hopeful news from across the pond

Google Slides diff view is surprisingly good? You can click through changes, and you get a big coloured box around what shifted. ... I kinda assume decent diffing was never gonna be a thing for presentations that _aren't_ written in some md/js framework

Great summary of the vim->helix move. As a very long term vi user and relatively recent helix enthusiast this nicely summarises my xp jumping over

So this is fucking gross - the US is trying to pressure the EU, again with the threat of tariffs, to water down their environmental regulations. :surprised_pikachu: archive.is/Gh5JC#select...

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

"look up and stay present" .. by "collaborating with visual Meta AI prompts" projected between your eyes and the folks _in the real world you are notionally trying to stay present with_. I don't understand if they are trying to redefine what 'present' means or they are just too deep in this rubbish

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

I'm using lightmode in my IDE and ... my eyes haven't melted and i'm not disgusted with myself. Is it time to find a new career?

A public holiday in the US affecting when the rest of us get the next Alien Earth episode is imho profoundly unreasonable

Hey #jj folks, I am trying to write a idiomatic revset that finds the earliest change that diverged from main, so I can rebase a stack of changes onto the latest main when they diverge. The best I can do is: (::@ ~ ::main) & roots(::@ ~ ::main) Which strikes me as rather gnarly. Easier way?!

Considering quitting the whole "writing about tech" thing, and turning this into a Gaz Liddiard fan account 🤘 Probably the world could use more of the latter and less of the former

11pm on a Friday. “What are you doing Scott?” “Oh just reading this quickly then going to sleep” <opens article on implications of io_uring on rust’s borrow checker>

Last week I needed to check that the PoE network port for my night-vision doorbell was working, so I plugged a usb-c network adapter into my iphone and ran a speed test over it. What a world we live in!

> In response to a Daily Beast request for comment, Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung called Wolff “a lying sack of shit.” 👷 Professional spokesman at work 👷

Spent _literally hours_ crimping and crimping again network cables trying to make my fancy doorbell work, only to realise I’d bought single mode fiber for the switch backhaul and that sorta kinda works with multimode transceivers but not like … good. Think I’ll stick to software

This is so cool

Great post about companies built on user-created data selling out for profit at the expense of the community that built around them. Shades of @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social 's techo-feudalism

Check out this new blog post outlining how profiling is becoming the fourth pillar of observability 🚀. www.datadoghq.com/blog/continu...

A fun part of working on cargo-pup, an architectural linting tool for #rust, is that I have to periodically fix things up to match changes in rustc's codebase. Little peaks behind the curtain into the compiler's internals.

I’ve been working on cargo-pup, a Rust tool for defining and enforcing architectural rules in your codebase - like ArchUnit for Java, or Clippy, but for project-specific architecture constraints rather than linting. Would love feedback from other rust folks! #rust #clippy #architecture

Did you know that you can use the OpenTelemetry Java APIs without setting up an export pipeline in your code? (I didn't) Add the opentelemetry-api dep, sprinkle @WithSpan on your important business-things, and let your auto-instrumentation wrapper - e.g. dd-trace-java - discover the OTel API usage!

Voxxed Days Luxembourg is proud to welcome Scott Gerring for the marvellous talk: "The Horrors That Lurk: Understanding the Linux Compiler Landscape for Developers"! Be sure to check the details on the schedule app: mobile.devoxx.com/events/voxxe... and favourite if you‘d like to see it! ⭐

I've been playing around with CodeQL as a tool to write project-specific lint rules. It's an amazing tool in general, but feels kinda tedious for this sort of project-specific thing, BUT it works! --> blog.scottgerring.com/posts/custom...

Unexpected new talking heads / psycho killer video is pretty pretty pretty good m.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ54...

On Thursday the 19th of June, I'll be at @lu.voxxeddays.com talking about the terrible things you can find if you look below the happy easy friendly world of Java - into the linuxy bits underneath. _I_ think this stuff is interesting, and now I hope to make it interesting - perhaps even useful!

Imagine a world where the entshitifcation of all content on the internet by GenAI slop and SEO fuckery leads to folks logging off and going to talk to their neighbours