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David Brungardt 🦀 @brungardtdb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today is my first day in the OMSCS at Georgia Tech! 🐝 I'm enrolled in Software Analysis. Thrilled to dive into static and dynamic analysis, LLVM, etc. I'm also thrilled to be starting at OMSCS after dreaming of it for 8 years. It's been a long journey to get here. Hopefully I get out someday. 🙂

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David Brungardt 🦀 @brungardtdb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

For anyone who is interested in Rust who happens to live in the greater Salt Lake City metro, we are having our July Utah Rust meetup tonight. 🦀 We are going to explore async runtimes and stuff I learned at Tokioconf. #rust #rustlang #programming #coding #tokio #async #backenddevelopment #meetup

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David Brungardt 🦀 @brungardtdb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

As a dotnet developer, I appreciate how easy it is to write unit tests and mocks for your API handlers with the mockall and axum-test crates. Suddenly all the fuss about making traits "dyn compatible" feels like it's paying off. #rust #rustlang #axum #tdd #programming

A Rust code snippet showing a mock of a repository to enable unit testing.

A Rust code snippet showing a unit test for a REST API.

A Rust code snippet showing some assert statements for a unit test.

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David Brungardt 🦀 @brungardtdb.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Mt. Hood is pretty incredible. 🏔 I have mountains where I live, but none that tower over the rest of the landscape quite like that.

A picture of Mt. Hood, taken from an aeroplane window above.

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David Brungardt 🦀 @brungardtdb.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I'm pretty sure I could have grabbed a few more stickers... #tokioconf #tokioconf26 #rust #rustlang #tokio

A table covered in various Tokio and Rust themed stickers.

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David Brungardt 🦀 @brungardtdb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I'm handing out at Tokioconf this week learning many important life lessons. If any of you are here, come say hi! 🦀 #tokioconf #tokioconf26

A slide that says "should you rewrite software that is working? No."

A slide showing Isaac Newton theater says "Inertia is a bitch. "

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David Brungardt 🦀 @brungardtdb.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Last night when I was trying to figure out how to inject a repository into an Axum API handler, I learned the hard way that traits that return 'impl Future' aren't dyn compatible. 🫠 #programming #rust #rustlang #axum #restapi #async #webdevelopment #backenddevelopment

An image of an error message stating that the trait is not dyn compatible.

A Rust code snippet of a struct with a property that attempts to use a dyn Trait with a ref squiggly line under the property.

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David Brungardt 🦀 @brungardtdb.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Hey y'all, it looks like I got accepted into Georgia Tech! 🥳 I'm torn between Machine Learning and Computer Systems. With any luck I can dabble a bit in both. Hopefully I can still find some time to write Rust on the side. 🦀

Some text congratulating the author on being accepted into Georgia Tech's online Computer Science program for fall semester with confetti in the foreground.

A few paragraphs of text from an acceptance letter, notifying the author that they were accepted into Georgia Tech's Computer Science program for fall semester.

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David Brungardt 🦀 @brungardtdb.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I'm so proud of Utah today, and for all the people who have been showing up and putting in the work for the last few months in order to make this happen.

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David Brungardt 🦀 @brungardtdb.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

A friend of mine at our local Rust meetup 3D printed a bunch of Ferris figurines and gave me one. Very cool. 🦀

A 3D printed figurine of Ferris the Crab, the unofficial mascot of the Rust programming language.

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David Brungardt 🦀 @brungardtdb.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I hiked to a few alpine lakes this morning and peeped some fall leaves. Autumn is beautiful, but it's over so quickly. #hiking #nature #mountains #autumn

An alpine lake with a mountain peak behind it.

An alpine lake with a snowy mountain peak behind it, reflecting in the lake like a mirror.

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David Brungardt 🦀 @brungardtdb.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I spent last week hanging out at #rustconf2025. It was my first time in person. What a great community! 🦀 Unconf and trying to assemble a crab statue on the floor in some random hallway were definitely a few of the highlights. #rustconf #rustlang

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David Brungardt 🦀 @brungardtdb.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Instead of hiking, I tried to do some trail running this morning and switch things up a bit. The waterfalls were a nice backdrop.

A small waterfall and a stream carving through some rocks.

A mountain trail with the rising sun and a forest in the background.

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