I am actively getting dumber and I’m trying my best to change that

is crates.io and docs.rs bugging out for anyone else?

I wonder what percentage of global carbon emissions are the result of software engineers choosing shitty wire formats because they’re “self-describing” and you can “read it on the wire”

2026 JH2 just flew right overhead here in Johannesburg (still up there) but there are clouds 😭

you lucky rustweek fish

Organisation weekend!

This is the 3rd time I’ve been asked (almost begged) to sell my car to some stranger. What is it that makes everyone want my 330d E90 from 2009?? Internet please help.

US inflation is now higher than ZA inflation ground.news/article/us-i...

@firefox.com has been on a roll with development recently and it _seems_ this is resolved 🎉 I never did find an open issue with it that matched my experience and didn’t know how to repro it properly 😅

Every ad now

Is there a name for that style of UI generative AI loves using? You know, like this:

My fellow South Africans, Let us remind ourselves of this glorious satellite. POES, "The King". www.satdump.org/posts/beyond...

PSA: Run this on your repos and blog posts now ⚠️ s/WASM/Wasm/g I’ll only accept WASM in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE for some or other reason when you need to. Thank you for your attention to this matter of international diplomacy. webassembly.org

New to FreeCAD? This in-depth tutorial models a real bike stem from scratch and covers the errors you'll actually run into. Experienced users will pick up a few tricks too. youtube.com/watch?v=KmtqNaGPiiQ #FreeCAD #CAD #OpenSource #Maker #3DPrinting #PartDesign #CAM #CNC #Bike #FOSS

Happy Europe day to my friends in the north 🇿🇦 🤝 🇪🇺

This kind of echoes the fatigue I feel online. Read past the title. rmoff.net/2026/05/06/a...

Kitten Space Agency just got a little more cosmic. We’ve added the Milky Way into the skybox, bringing more depth, scale, and atmosphere to spaceflight, orbital views, and planetary surfaces. Whether you’re coasting above the atmosphere or looking up from a planet, space should feel vast.

New eye candy coming soon from the impeccable @oxide.computer design team

Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by @biohub.org and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with support from @kavlifoundation.org and @researchsoftware.bsky.social 🧵 os4science.org/news/open-so...

what even is hobby?

Can potential subsolar-mass gravitational wave events reveal their origin? New preprint by SXS researchers @caltech.edu and Cornell: Eccentricity as a signature of hierarchical subsolar-mass mergers in collapsar disks Jiaxi Wu, Elias Most, et al. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26912 What's it about? 1/2 ⚛️🧪🔭

Some screenshots of the new rocket plumes in Kitten Space Agency. I think we are the first/only to do volumetric plumes in this way. download free ksa.ahwoo.com

Kitten Space Agency’s raytraced interiors bring grounded lighting and reflections to confined spaces, balancing performance with stability for consistent, believable results. Read the full article on Ahwoo. 🔗 buff.ly/4irw30P

Just released iddqd 0.4.0: maps where keys borrow from values. Now with a rewritten backend 2-3x as fast sa the old one, and extensive example-based and property-based tests for pathological user implementations!

I’m slowly collecting hobbies again. Maybe I will get back into guitar. Also doing want my Korean skills to deteriorate.

Getting images to work properly in RSS readers is annoying

hello everyone! we're hard at work on an imminent launch. we have scalable monorepo support, jj-first concepts (but deep git compatibility!) and stacked diffs. we're very flattered by the attention yesterday and today!

@ersc.io is moving with intent y'all. We hear you and are excited to show you what we've been working on soon!

CSS's light-dark() now accepts images, making it simpler to define alternate values for a dark color scheme. Here's how it works:

omg the what awaits aleksey demo is so good whatawaitsaleksey.com

Kagi Lenses are your custom filter for the web, and one of our most-loved features for good reason: blog.kagi.com/tips/kagi-le...

On Monday's episode, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by @oxide.computer's mechanical engineering team to talk about their work on the manufacturability, reliability, serviceability, and (yes!) safety of the Oxide rack. Join us, at a special time of 3p Pacific Monday discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

The long wait for a K-40 spectrum on my Radiacode 103. I only have a pretty small sample of low salt (50% KCl). Waiting for my 200g back of pure KCl. So this might take a while… I hear muriated potash is even better but just dusty and messy:

This is awesome! science.nasa.gov/specials/you...

🎉🎉 I've been working with the folk at Tailscale on their new #rust-lang library. Last week it was officially announced (tailscale.com/blog/tailsca...) along with open-sourcing the code (github.com/tailscale/ta...).

We heard you: the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnOp...

New motherboard and we’re back in business!

I don’t know why I find this demo hilarious xcancel.com/tokufxug/sta...

let’s all use emdashes unironically—for human2human conversation

seeing every half-wit user on here with a profile full of anime fan art reposts bitch and moan about AI is depressing. we used to #hugops folks who were having outages, now we just pathetically dogpile with grievances.

i wrote an internet standard https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.html (it's published on ietf so you know it's real and official and endorsed by the ietf)

new radiacode just dropped www.radiacode.com/zero

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

Release 19 is now LIVE & you're going to want to check out Trust Quorum. How do we truly attest to the security of a system distributed across many physical hosts that will be swapped out over the system's lifetime? Read the full release notes here: buff.ly/cobURMz

Rust 1.95.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀✨ This release includes cfg_select!{}, if-let guards in match, Vec::push_mut, VecDeque::push_{front,back}_mut, std::hint::cold_path, and more! Check out the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/04/16/R...