Great episode of Factually! Over the last 30 years, companies have shifted us to a computer-based society – "every work is email" [...] and now they're saying: "you don't use computer anymore, computer uses itself – it doesn't need you". open.spotify.com/episode/1zQn...

A look at the upcoming changes in MkDocs 2.0 squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-mater...

Least known data structure that is extremely useful: Slab – I use it in many of my crates

Latest VS Code Update, and Rust Analyzer is constantly running on 200%. No matter which project I open or how often I restart VS Code. What. The. Fuck. I need to properly set up Zed.

I will be on @talkpython.fm next week, talking about @zensical.org ☺️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Bv...

You grind and grind on a design/architecture that just doesn't yet feel right, and then suddenly it *clicks* – and everything falls in its right place. I just love those moments when programming.

We just delivered Zensical Monthly, January 2026 edition straight to your inbox with the latest and greatest updates to keep you informed on what's happening behind the scenes ☺️ We send 1 newsletter at the beginning of every month: zensical.org/about/newsle...

Today, we entered deprecation phase 2 of Material for MkDocs Insiders – it will now print a warning, recommending to switch to the community edition. On May 1, 2026, the repository will be deleted. Please switch all CI workflows to the community edition. squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-mater...

Had our first open video call today! We demoed an early design draft of @zensical.org's module system – the optimize plugin from Material for MkDocs (400 LOC) reduced to ~20 lines with ZRX modules. The runtime handles parallelization, caching & orchestration automatically.

Adoption of @zensical.org is growing fast, as we're already close to 100k monthly downloads! We're working hard on reaching feature parity within the coming months, so all Material for MkDocs users can switch to a maintained, modern docs stack 🚀 pypistats.org/packages/zen...

Zensical 0.0.19 ships generation of objects.inv for mkdocstrings-powered documentation sites! github.com/zensical/zen...

Making great progress on ZRX, the foundation for the module system that we're cooking up for @zensical.org – it'll offer several degrees of freedom, and allow for type-safe composition (= plugin interop) – something that MkDocs (now dead) never delivered. github.com/zensical/zrx...

Zensical 0.0.17 brings support for automatic and manual API cross-references! Symbol names in your auto-generated API documentation will now link to the relevant section in your documentation. github.com/zensical/zen...

I still can’t believe a language like Rust exists. It lets you be incredibly productive, compiles to native code, and provides strong safety guarantees. It really feels like a new era of programming. Roughly 3,000 hours in, it keeps getting better.

MkDocs hasn't had a plugin system for the first three years. We're working very hard to deliver a battle-tested module system for @zensical.org this summer, at latest.

Using a u64 as a stack to evaluate a tree of ANY/ALL/NOT conditions. Zero allocations and probably pretty optimal already.

ZRX 0.0.7 makes selector matching 1,000 faster. We're currently working on a module system prototype, and selectors are the way how modules interconnect. This release lays the foundation for extremely large module graphs. github.com/zensical/zrx...

📮 The next edition of Zensical Monthly goes out tomorrow! We’ll be sharing the most important recent updates, behind-the-scenes work, and the occasional exclusive goodie! You can subscribe to Zensical Monthly here: zensical.org/about/newsle...

Rubyists, I just updated the Nokogiri docs site nokogiri.org to use Zensical. Let me know if anything looks wonky! Shout out to @squidfunk.com and the @zensical.org crew! Good stuff.

The documentation system dilemma: powerful but complex (Sphinx) or simple but limited (MkDocs). Why compromise? With Zensical, we're finally solving this. Full power, zero friction. Here's our roadmap: zensical.org/about/roadmap/

🎄 Merry Christmas 🎅 Zensical 0.0.15 brings fuzzy search support, and improves tooltip behavior on touch devices. The Zensical team wishes you a joyful holiday season and a fantastic new year! 🎄✨ github.com/zensical/zen...

Started prototyping a module system for @zensical.org, and it's so much fun to do this in Rust, just wow! Our aim is to release the first previews early next year in Zensical Spark, so members can try them out for early feedback 🚀 Here are our design goals: zensical.org/about/roadma...

We'll soon ship support for fat fingers – aka fuzzy search. Fuzzy search is particularly tricky to get right, since enabling it generally deteriorates exact or prefix matches quite significantly. Disco only uses it as a fallback, combining it with other matched terms. No special syntax necessary.

Has somebody figured out how to properly cache downloaded and compiled artifacts when using PyO3/maturin-action? github.com/PyO3/maturin...

⚠️ Warning We’ve been made aware of a crypto coin falsely using the name “Zensical.” To be clear: this is a scam, unauthorized, and not affiliated with us in any way. Please avoid and report.

Zensical 0.0.13 is out – our second release today. This release fixes all known issues in the user interface, which means we'll now focus again on the runtime, so we can start working on the module system very soon. github.com/zensical/zen...

Zensical 0.0.12 is out! github.com/zensical/zen...

👋 In case you missed it: 1️⃣ MkDocs unmaintained since 1,5 years 2️⃣ Material for MkDocs in maintenance mode 3️⃣ mkdocstrings in maintenance mode 💀 MkDocs is dead. 🚀 2026 will be the year of @zensical.org

The last two weeks of work just saw the light of day ☺️

Rust is the Drum & Bass of programming languages. Lightning fast, surgically precise, and engineered to flow. Incidentally, I love Drum & Bass.

📣 mkdocstrings is now supported in Zensical! We just shipped Zensical 0.0.11 with initial mkdocstrings support. Features like cross-refs and backlinks are still in progress, but API docs already look great with Zensical. Give it a spin: zensical.org/docs/setup/e...

New pricing page for @zensical.org is live. Using instant previews to surface additional context without disrupting the reading flow – they can be quite effective for progressive disclosure. Documentation for instant previews: zensical.org/docs/setup/n...

Disco is now 3x faster in Zensical 0.0.10! Comparing it to Lunr.js, used in Material for MkDocs, current results are: Indexing: 4x faster Querying: 20x (!) faster This means that Disco can handle much bigger indexes, e.g., 25 MB which roughly equals ~12.000 printed pages.

✨ The first invites for Zensical Spark are going out this week! We're excited to onboard our professional users and begin co-creating the future of Zensical together. Join the waiting list zensical.org/spark/join/

129 people already hanging out in the @zensical.org Discord – a good place to ask questions if you get stuck 👋 discord.gg/hqXRNq9CjT

📣 Material for MkDocs discussion board now read-only. In this fourth and final part of our blog post series, we share our experiences with GitHub Discussions, and what motivated us to rethink the way we work with the community as part of @zensical.org. squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-mater...

Gosh, it feels so good to finally have released Zensical on November 5! Together with the search, we've basically worked in the dark for 2 years – generally a very bad idea, as you can't know whether you nail the problem you're aiming to solve or not. A thread ⬇ 1/4

After a while of Rust, you return to Python or TypeScript with genuine confusion – you can just... pass things around? Without a borrow checker complaining? That's legal?? I mean, who owns that thingy??

Python Markdown Extensions already moved over from MkDocs to @zensical.org 🚀 This demonstrates that existing customizations work nicely in the new design, with only some minor adjustments necessary. facelessuser.github.io/pymdown-exte...

900 stars 7 days after release – I think it's safe to say we had a very successful launch with @zensical.org. We're super happy and the feedback is overwhelmingly positive. Thank you all for supporting our work ❤️

📣 Material for MkDocs Insiders now free for everyone! With 9.7.0, we release all Insiders features previously exclusive to sponsors! This marks the last version of Material that includes new features, as we now enter maintenance mode. A thread ⬇ 1/4 squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-mater...

We're on the HackerNews front page right now! news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4586...

... and the next Zensical release! We'll probably have one every day for the next 10 days, playing whack-a-mole with bugs as they appear, when thousands of Material users test-drive Zensical on their existing projects 😃 Compatibility madness! github.com/zensical/zen...

I just closed my GitHub Sponsors account, saying goodbye to over $16k in monthly sponsorships. These sponsorships allowed me to build a team around Material for MkDocs, and now, Zensical. With Zensical Spark, we're on a new track to OSS sustainability: zensical.org/spark/

Zensical – a modern static site generator. We're excited to release @zensical.org, our new SSG that is compatible with Material for MkDocs: – 5x faster rebuilds – Modern design – Blazing-fast search Read the full announcement on our blog: squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-mater... A thread ⬇ 1/7

If you install a fresh copy of MkDocs, livereload won't work, so MkDocs won't rebuild your project as you make changes. I've updated this reported issue with details on what is happening and how to work around it until the problem is fixed upstream. github.com/squidfunk/mk...

A full-stack day - it started with Floyd-Warshall and ended in navigation icon resolution.

1/2 Phishing by using GitHub issues as a transport – the email looks quite legit, includes a link to a typo-squatted domain (y-comblnator.com) they want you to click on, followed by a lot of whitespace to hide the common GitHub issue footer ⬇️

AI-generated slop as PRs incoming. github.com/squidfunk/mk...

Open Source is not a democracy. It's a meritocracy. Absolute must-watch interview with David Heinemeier Hansson aka DHH, creator of Ruby on Rails. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTa2...