If AI made building new software so much more quick, easy and approachable, where are all the new killer applications? I haven't seen anything.

networking is so cursed, i never wanted to know this much about local ethernet networks

New post: a defense of lock poisoning in Rust. Followup to recent discussion: decided to write about lock poisoning, looking at the arguments on each side, and informed by our experience at @oxide.computer dealing with the parallel problem of unexpected async cancellations Please give it a read!

Incredibly disappointed (shocked even) that the plan is to make the default Rust mutex not poisonable in the 2027 edition. Poisoning is one of the best examples of Rust focusing on rigor, and removing it from the default mutex would be a massive step backwards.

Lots of people in the comments saying this was a C mistake. But C++ is not compatible with C, so it chose to inherit this problem.

it's great that android moved to make rust capable of replacing c/++ in android (net new systems code is more rust now) but eventually someone there's got to realize: rust could also be preferable to kotlin for the role it currently occupies

man, can you imagine a world where we poured 1, 10, or 252 BILLION dollars[1] into maintaining/developing open source, programming languages, dev tools, teaching material, documentation, etc? like, god damn. 1/10 of that, and AI would probably work better too. [1]: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...

Rust programmers, do you worry about supply chain security? I.e., that a dependency might contain a bug or malicious code?

Happens every time....

please, use mergiraf mergiraf.org I have been using it for the last few days and it's making my life so much easier.

Sometimes my hardware will simply stop working-- I think I'll need to buy proper debugging hardware tools.

Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:

I've no unsafe operation and memory is being corrupted 😭

Is there a successor to FireDBG? github.com/SeaQL/FireDB... The project looks absolutely awesome but development seems halted.

Did rust-analyzer started filling in variable names when filling matching arms? That's so great!

New Benn Jordan video! (๑>ᴗ<๑)

I've been thinking lately, that the distinction between local and distributed system is not that useful. Every computing system is distributed at some scale, the distinctions are the characteristics of the I/O interfaces.

Under the current definition of AI, a PID is AI.

🙃 Are datasheets written confusingly on purpose? "Hardware won't allow ERXWRPT to be updated to ERXRDPT" and "[Hardware] will always write up to, but not includ- ing, the memory pointed to by [ERXRDPT]" are quite different.

If I knew how to short companies I'd make so much money.

It's an start! (it does work although the API is really unergonomic)

My kingdom for a bytes crate that doesn't require alloc

New heapless version is out! blog.rust-embedded.org/heapless-091 (And it's looking juicy)

I hate password requirements so much.

Is there a enumflags #rustlang crate-like but for operation between 2 different enums?

Does someone have an example of sans-IO without alloc? It can be in #rustlang #C++ or whatever, I want some inspiration for my own crate.

New article on #rustlang mutable memory access in concurrent applications! #rust taping-memory.dev/concurrency-...

I'm writing a #rustlang crate, I want opinions on what to use to represent non-byte aligned addresses. Right now I'm dealing with 5 bit addresses.

The struggle is real 😢

Question for #rust #embedded is there some convenient tool that doesn't require me to download cubeMX to calculate clock speeds? Preferably something in the terminal.

New article on #rustlang mutable memory access in concurrent applications! #rust taping-memory.dev/concurrency-...

Question for any #embedded person that has cats and do projects at home. How do you store your active projects (wiring on a breadboard) through the night? I want some ideas.

I wish there were feature flags only for test in Rust I want to test on different levels, such as no IO, with IO, with qemu, with hardware and not pollute the crate's exposed features. I don't think there's a way?

The guys who want to sell you garbage say you look great covered in garbage.

Should I add jujutsu to things I don't know how to use I add to my everyday workflow? I'm unconvinced by jujutsu but it seems to be universally loved.

I've been using organist for a few days now. As someone who's basically new to Nix, NixOs, and Nickel the lack of docs make it quite difficult. (but that's probably on me trying to learn it all at the same time) But the results are pretty nice!

Immediatley adding "embedded developer" to my CV

Does someone know if organist is a viable project I can use for my projects? I don't see any new PR/commits for a few months, I'm not sure if it's abandoned.

omg, mermaid.js has packet diagrams.

Mood board for my blog redesign 👀

Honest question, why someone would trust a compiler but not the distribution method? The former seems much riskier to me

Might as well just eat protein powder straight from the jar.

I hate live coding interviews so much. 😭 It's so hard to think right in that environment, and it feels so different from solving the same task in a real setting where I can spend some time actually thinking through my approach. Just venting :(

How long until "Doom running on birds"?

Software craftsmanship is essential. It leads to faster and more scalable software with fewer bugs and a much better UX. The "founder mentality" has, for years, devalued it, culminating in vibe-coding. Leading to a decrease in software quality, comparable to what happened to the clothing industry.

Can we talk about how AI completely ruined the whole "music for programming playlist" video genre?

Safety critical, safety critical, safety critical, safety critical. Rust. With @fasterthanli.me, for @sdr-podcast.com. Watch now for more info: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RntT...

Somebody knows why FireDBG didn't catch on? It looks beyond amazing. I know it's kinda unmantained at the moment and latest rust version support is 1.81 but I'm tempted to start investing time to fix that

I struggled trying to do exercise all my life and this last year I really got into lifting and it's true it feels great. But what really helped to keep me going every day, is thinking of it like an RPG. You level up almost every week adding a few kilograms! Number go up monkey brain go brrrrrr

My hot take is that in Rust the function channel should return an struct instead of a tuple.