A friend shared a lovely Dijkstra essay. It's short enough to read in a few minutes, and is damning of the current attempt to replace our brains with AI generated writing and vibe coding. www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcr...

hate it when programs present you with a text input and it's NOT READY FOR YOU TO TYPE IN — like wdym?? I'm a meatbag full of water! You're a monster running at 4.5 GHz!!! How am I waiting on you!

i think rust teaches us to fear dynamic dispatch because it looks ugly to box dyn, but my hottest bevy take is that we haven’t yet begun to fully explore the potential of function pointers in components

I've been running stable since I left @zed.dev but this one got me downloading preview to get early 🤩 nice @cirw.in github.com/zed-industri...

Anyone with a complicated set of GitHub Actions YAML files have ideas on a good structure to avoid insanity? Seems like "put all the scripts into .sh" files is a good start; but the whole lot is quite tangled Asking for a friend... github.com/zed-industri...

I collaborated with @cirw.in at EuroRust to make a Zed extension for Roto! It's based on the tree-sitter grammar and supports syntax highlighting and generating an outline. It can be installed via Zed's regular extension manager. Thanks @cirw.in! cc @nlnetlabs.bsky.social #rust #rustlang

And the first day of #eurorust25 wraps up with some amazing story time with Conrad Irwin (@cirw.in) talking about software, speed and how it all affects human experience! 🔃🤌🏼👏🏼

My voice-to-text model just transcribed "stack of abstractions" to "stack of obstructions". I guess it's the same. 😭

ooh my talk on cancelling async #rustlang got featured on LWN! Thanks @pietroalbini.org for linking me to it

What if typescript was right about union types...? cirw.in/blog/typescr...

A better for loop? cirw.in/blog/for-yield

🦀 Talk by @conradirwin.bsky.social, Software Engineer at @zed.dev Modern computers are fast, but modern software rarely pushes them to their limit. Conrad will share how Zed’s GPUI can render a new frame to the entire screen every 8ms. Book your ticket ➡️ eurorust.eu/talks/render...

Makes sense! Also reminds me of this classic: pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur....

Finally figured it out well enough to write it down. zed.dev/blog/why-llm...

Who says AI can't build amazing things... www.windowswen.com

I first wrote up the idea for this 6 years ago, but it took a huge amount of work to actually turn it into reality. Thank you to Orion for the heavy lifting, and all the other Automerge contributors for making it happen!

Are there any statically compiled languages with a typescript-like type system (that can use values in types)? I love rust's exhaustive enum's, but I don't love that they're not just structs, and so you *have* to use a match statement to extract values instead of if…

In the modern world, we should refer to it as "unplugging a flower", not "picking" one.

Finally added `U` to Zed's vim mode; Closing in on being able to complete vimtutor. Only a few things left: * `%` matching in plain-text files * :set ic * :<range>w * :r <filename> !!!

I've (finally) written up the spec for CONL Schema conl.dev/schema.html (next steps publish the language server so it's useful; but feels nice to have found a *significantly* simpler model than JSON schema)

Exciting times! blog.superhuman.com/superhuman-i...

Really love building little details like this. Notice how in the search bar the newlines show up (instead of hiding your multiline content off-screen...)

If `git config --global user.email` reads my email from ~/.gitconfig; what does `git config user.email --global` do?

If you missed my talk at Rust week, or just need to hear the jokes for a second time, it's now online! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z9D...

To garbage collect or not? cirw.in/blog/garbage...

Trying to reimplement a fun vim easter egg with an LLM...

Petition for all rust crates to copy `schemars` naming convention so we can sound like pirates when reading Carrrrgo.toml

cirw.in/blog/conl hot off the press, my new config file format

"commits messages should be meaningful" me, a professional:

Naïvely pasting “curl | bash” is insecure. I am not naïve. Therefore, I shrewdly type “git clone && make” instead to get the artisanal security nightmares.

I'm giving a talk on Vim at Rustweek. I want to share some "omg" vim tips – anyone have favorite "aha" moments, or obscure-but-useful key mappings?

Come to the Netherlands! Learn some weird vim stuff from yours truly! It'll be fun! rustweek.org/talks/conrad/

Working on improving our diagnostics rendering in Zed. Let me know if you have good examples (or particular pain points) to consider

So excited for this! (but in full transparency, I'm not a co-founder at Zed :D)

We are welcoming @conradirwin.bsky.social to #eurorust25! 🦀

Sometimes I wonder if the vim contributors were just trying to make it hard to copy

Been working on this for the past few months: feels great to finally ship it! zed.dev/blog/git

Dear Github, could you pretty please show the PR number in the actions title, not the run number. I want to click on the PR all the time, and I've never needed the job number (I just copy paste the URL around to communicate about action runs).

Rust proposal, the pub modifier should get longer the more public things get, right now it's backwards. fn a // private p fn a // pub(super) pu fn a // pub(crate) pub fn a // pub

We engineered Zed to be instantly responsive, but what's faster than instant? Anticipating your next move. Introducing edit prediction, powered by Zeta, our new open-source language model. 🚀

Is AI the end of satire?

Ahhhh zed.dev now lets you search ("/" in vim mode, cmd+f otherwise) within search results, a HUGE quality-of-life upgrade for me!!! I've been wanting this from the beginning ✨

www.jvt.me/posts/2025/0... Super happy to see this headline :D

As a follow-up to this post, I wrote down my extended thoughts on switching from Neovim to @zed.dev. sgoel.dev/posts/trying...

New blog post explaining `tool` directives in Go 1.24: cirw.in/blog/go-tools!