Working on a Zig library to generate SVG railroad diagrams! https://twitch.tv/kristoff_it https://youtube.com/live/2uKx5_APAUQ?feature=share

Zine v0.12.0 is out, bringing a big upgrade to Ziggy, the config and frontmatter language. https://zine-ssg.io/log/#v0.12.0

gingerbill calling andrew a communist is one of the weirdest things I've seen from the neo handmade community katamari64.se/posts/2026/o...

Review of Zig after 100k lines of game code by Madrigal Games. (spoilers: not everything is perfect) www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXpUShkr2VQ

It seems that Godot knows how to play Contributor Poker as well... https://godotengine.org/article/contribution-policy-2026/

Getting my LSP to work with my static site generator. #ziglang twitch.tv/kristoff_it youtube.com/live/LmXQXyM... (no music)

Zine v0.11.3 is out! https://zine-ssg.io/log/#v0.11.3

I'm live to work on Ziggy (https://ziggy-lang.io),my JSON replacemenvt language. I'm about to upgrade Zine (https://zine-ssg.io), my static site generator to the latest version of Ziggy. https://twitch.tv/kristoff_it https://youtube.com/live/hRdkA7nNQh4 (no music)

Returning to Zig https://gracefulliberty.com/articles/return-to-zig/

@kristoff.it on Allocator names www.twitch.tv/kristoff_it/... Clipped this a year ago for future reference #ziglang

This is an interesting and absolutely valid use case. My plan is to introduce the concept of HTML snippets and make them 'callable' from SuperMD content files.

Sometimes I run out of steam, sometimes I go down the wrong path, and some other times I deliberately take detours, but nobody can trick me into mistaking lesser stars for my true destination. kristoff.it/blog/north-s...

You Must Fix Your Asserts https://kristoff.it/blog/fix-your-asserts/

New Zig Devlog about ELF linker improvements, featuring 30ms rebuilds of a Tetris game. Incremental is coming and y'all not ready. https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-30

For some people AI is an autoadaptive dunning-kruger system.

The next Zig Day Seattle (WA) is going to be on Jun 13! Make sure to RSVP if you plan to attend! https://zig.day/usa/seattle/2/

About LLMs at Zig Days kristoff.it/blog/llms-at...

Andrew's interview with JetBrains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqddnwKF8HQ

Systems Distributed '26 is getting closer and so is the Zig Day Boston scheduled for the day before (completely free, NO conference ticket required). Come practice your systems thinking and make software you can love with us! RSVP: luma.com/eloljzc0

Scripty https://kristoff.it/blog/scripty/

Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban https://kristoff.it/blog/contributor-poker-and-ai/

The next Systems Distributed has been announced. Next to it we'll also run a special one-off Zig Day Boston open to anybody! https://systemsdistributed.com/ https://zig.day/special/0/

So it seems that now everybody else is realizing that GitHub is broken as fuck in a storm of managers that have no idea what to do with the product and mindless vibecoding. Told ya.

Last reminder that this saturday Zig Day Naples will take place! Join Andrew, me and other people interested in making software you can love! https://zig.day/europe/naples/0/

pip install ziglang https://cemrehancavdar.com/2026/03/05/zig-cc-cython/

Upcoming Zig Days! Seattle: March 21 Naples: March 28 (Andrew will be there!) Stockholm: April 11 Nuremberg: April 11 More info on zig.day!

The vibecoding will continue until uptime improves. -- Manager @ Microslop GitHub

The first ever Zig Day Napoli is scheduled for March 28! Both Andrew and I will be there, join us for some good Zig... ...and some good food as well! https://zig.day/europe/naples/0/

Straight up good ideas. https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2026-02-16-index-count-offset-size/

Feb 7th I'll be at Zig Day Nuremberg! Come meet other Zig enthusiasts and make software you can love! zig.day/europe/nurem...

Live to work on Awebo, a self-hostable discord replacement written in Zig https://twitch.tv/kristoff_it https://youtube.com/live/9gwZ_NUeg-E?feature=share

> new Zig project with fancy homepage, cool! > whole project is one single AI generated commit, uhmm... > no build.zig, only BUILD.bazel, 💀

Simplistic Comptime Column Safety in SQLite Queries https://kristoff.it/blog/simplistic-comptime-sqlite/

Here's another fun one: Atlassian wants you to pay 15 usd/mo PER SLOT if you want parallel builds on YOUR self-hosted runners https://www.atlassian.com/blog/bitbucket/announcing-v5-self-hosted-runners

We got out of GitHub right on time! From Jan 1st you have to pay by the minute to run YOUR OWN self-hosted runners. Somebody told a C-level about safe_sleep.sh and where we saw a bug, they saw a feature. resources.github.com/actions/2026...

Reminder that asynchrony is not concurrency. https://lobste.rs/s/uzfrya/zig_s_new_plan_for_asynchronous_programs

If you're planning on doing Advent Of Code in Zig this year, my blog post on how to get started still fully applies. https://kristoff.it/blog/advent-of-code-zig/

Builtin matrix type proposal was just accepted :^) https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4960

On Nov 29th I'll be at the Zig Day hosted in Nuremberg, if you're coming, see you there! zig.day/europe/nurem...

The first ever Zig Day San Francisco has been scheduled! https://zig.day/usa/san-francisco/0/

Open Source leadership has succeeded beyond anybody's wildest dreams, it's just that the machine is not designed to do what's written on the tin.

https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-builds-getting-faster

Boston Zig is now up to 8 members! guild.host/boston-zig #ZigLang

Last saturday I went to ZigDay, an entire day dedicated to learning/experimenting with Zig!! I wrote a short journal here -> marcobacis.dev/blog/2025-se... Thanks to Coding Bunker (www.codingbunker.it) and in particular to @inge.4pr.es , @omissis.dev and @kristoff.it, for the day!

Zig Day San Francisco is up and running! https://zig.day/usa/san-francisco/

I started a Boston @ziglang.bsky.social meetup! www.meetup.com/boston-zig #ZigLang

First!

The first ziglang.org outage https://ziglang.org/news/first-outage/

Zig's 2025 Financial Report & Fundraiser! https://ziglang.org/news/2025-financials/

I got fed up with animating code for videos so I wrote Mimic. It plays back code based on simple instructions. crate: crates.io/crates/mimic github: github.com/togglebyte/m...