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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 27/07/2026

I spent some time yesterday sharpening my knives, which I find really therapeutic. I realised this is similar to working on my Neovim config, which is therapeutic for the same reason.

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 22/05/2026

"If I had more time, I would've written a shorter letter" is more true than ever in the AI age. In fact having AI write for you at all is just lazy and disrespectful to the reader. noslopgrenade.com

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no slop grenade

Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations. If they wanted an AI essay, they would have asked ChatGPT themselves.

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 20/05/2026

This HN subthread news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4820... perfectly encapsulate the "C is simple, but not easy" dichotomy. Sure you can learn all the surface syntax of C quickly, and compared to the likes of Rust or Swift there is very little. However, writing correct software in C is not easy.

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 23/04/2026

I wrote a comment on /r/rust that was vaguely positive about LLMs for coding, shouldn't have done that. Sitting at (-5) atm. They really don't like AI over there.

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PostgresEDI @postgresedi.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Join us for the #PostgreSQL #Edinburgh #meetup on Thurs, April 23rd! We will hear from @hugotunius.se on lessons learned building a Postgres extension, and by @vyruss.org who will live fix some bad SQL! Where: Paterson's Land, Room 1.21 Time: 6pm pizza and chat, talks from 7pm 👇 luma.com/v2rrpszi

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PostgreSQL Edinburgh Meetup April 2026 · Luma

Be part of our Edinburgh PostgreSQL Meetup! Join the PostgreSQL Edinburgh organisers and fellow PostgreSQL enthusiasts at Paterson's Land, Room 1.21,…

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 10/02/2026

I have a new problem. These days not only does neovim start rust-analyzer, so does claude. Because of this I frequently end up with rust-analyzer eating 16-20GB of my ram and my whole system falling over as I hit the 32GB limit

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

10/10 no noots

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 13/01/2026

It's going to be really fun tomorrow when the Supreme Court rules against Trump's tariffs (hopefully).

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 12/01/2026

It's unbelievable how stupid Trump is. The Supreme court might rule against his tariffs and he's truthing up a storm about how bad this would be. If he had passed the tariff via congress, instead of illegal EOs, none of this would be on the table.

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R @liburghal.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

There is always an XKCD

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 06/01/2026

I've got the strangest #rustlang bug. A few our own crates at work refuse to build when I pull them from the registry, but if I patch them by pointing directly to the same commit on disk it's all fine. Been like this for weeks now, no clue what's wrong.

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 02/01/2026

Veratasium released a video about ASML and EUV lithography 1 day ago. ASML stock is up 5% today, seemingly as a result of the video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUH...

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The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World's Most Important Machine

YouTube video by Veritasium

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 23/12/2025

I was randomly perusing my CS2 inventory the other day and found a skin worth £150. For the life of me I don't get why anyone would pay that, but hey I get a free copy of Battlefield 6 🤷‍♂️

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 22/12/2025

I saw a 2004 vs 2024 metalcore Youtube Short a few days ago. I've only listened to early 2000s metalcore since

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 20/12/2025

Finished an initial version of my #postgres ID type github.com/k0nserv/plid. There's one unfortunate allocation in Rust that I haven't manage to eliminate... bsky.app/profile/hugo...

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GitHub - k0nserv/plid: ULID inspired ID with prefix support

ULID inspired ID with prefix support. Contribute to k0nserv/plid development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 18/12/2025

There's this one person, I think anyway, who keeps creating sock puppet accounts for every HN thread about Rust. I'm pretty sure them and I had the exact same exchange in two separate threads...

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 14/12/2025

I'm playing around with the idea of a ulid inspired id type that adds prefix support. Using the excellent #pgrx Rust crate it has been trivial to build a #rustlang #postgres extension for this. plid=# SELECT gen_plid('u'); gen_plid --------------------------- u_06DHRQH6SJT7N2WEQK4910R

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PostgresEDI @postgresedi.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

THIS WEEK: The first #PostgreSQL #Edinburgh #meetup! A prime opportunity to hear about the #database that's—slowly but surely—taking over the world, and network with fellow #developers and #OpenSource enthusiasts. Thurs 11 Dec, 6pm, University of Edinburgh Old College! RSVP here ▶️ luma.com/b9kv5fds

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PostgreSQL Edinburgh meetup · Luma

Be part of the very first Edinburgh PostgreSQL Meetup! Join host Jimmy Angelakos and fellow PostgreSQL enthusiasts at the University of Edinburgh's beautiful…

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Matt @mbunchanumbers.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 25/11/2025

Getting into #homeassistant. I love the idea of the project, but I hate the move away from config in code and IAC. Cattle not pets people

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 14/06/2025

on type safety

Frog and Toad illustration edited to say: Frog put the value in an option. "There", he said, "now we will not deref any more null pointers". "But we can unwrap the option," said Toad. "That is true", said Frog.

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PostgresEDI @postgresedi.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

#Edinburgh #PostgreSQL community, our first-ever meetup is here! 🐘 Join us for pizza, networking, and two great tech talks (all levels!). 🗓️ Thurs, Dec 11 @ 6 PM 📍 Old College, UoE 🗣️ Topics: #Postgres Tips for App Devs + AI/RAG with pgvector 👉 luma.com/b9kv5fds #TechMeetup #AI #pgvector #Database

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PostgreSQL Edinburgh meetup · Luma

Be part of the very first Edinburgh PostgreSQL Meetup! Join host Jimmy Angelakos and fellow PostgreSQL enthusiasts at the University of Edinburgh's beautiful…

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 11/11/2025

I am relieved to resolve my "watch this space" pun 😀, and announce the second set of Rust and Friends presenters this month will be Tiago Santos and Cafer Eren Şimşek talking about "Rust in Space at Spire" 🛰️ 🦀! #rustlang

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Exotically Sized Types, and Rust in Space at Spire!, Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: [David Wood](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidtwco/) on "Extending Rust’s notions of sizedness". From David: * "All of Rust’s types either

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 10/11/2025

There's an unformed blog post in my head with the title "Rust Has Low Cognitive Load Actually". It's trying to escape. #rustlang

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 10/11/2025

"Memory Safety for Skeptics," where I argue why memory safety is worthwhile to pursue amid competing priorities! queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i... #rustlang

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Memory Safety for Skeptics - ACM Queue

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 05/11/2025

My favourite Youtuber released on of his biannual videos in which he teaches an octopus to play the piano www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWn...

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Teaching an octopus how to play piano

YouTube video by Mattias Krantz

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 04/11/2025

Pleasantly surprised to learn that #postgres implements grapheme clusters: SELECT length('✅'); 1 The docs say "Returns the number of characters in the string.", but you never know what "characters" means in a sentence like that.

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 24/09/2025

Another day, another malware campaign of zero consequence for those who don't deal in fake internet money. I guess this is the one upside of cryptocurrencies. blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/24/c...

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crates.io: Malicious crates faster_log and async_println | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 29/06/2025

Like #Rustlang? #Chess? What about #AI? Then how about "Exploring a State-of-the-art Chess AI built with Rust"? Please come along to hear from our second speaker, @affinelytyped.bsky.social , at the July Edition of Rust Edinburgh: www.meetup.com/rust-and-fri...

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July talks: A Crab, a Pufferfish and a State-of-the-art Chess AI, Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: * [Malcolm Still](https://mstill.dev) on "**The Crab and the Pufferfish: Applying OpenBSD’s Secure Software Design Pattern in Rust**". From

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Oh rad, a dog @real-danger.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Apple has rediscovered the Aero interface. Deeply unimpressed. #WWDC

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 09/06/2025

Yeah, I don’t like Liquid Glass #wwdc

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 27/05/2025

Thinking about LLM security. It's a bit like phone phreaking because it's all inband-signalling. Unlike phone phreaking I'm not sure there's a way to move to outbound-signalling, it's a fundamental limitation of the model. Brought to you by invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-git...

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GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP

We showcase a critical vulnerability with the official GitHub MCP server, allowing attackers to access private repository data. The vulnerability is among the first discovered by Invariant's security ...

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 14/05/2025

This, but instead of "economics" it's "Using LLMs"

xkcd comic of a stick figure asking "Whatcha doing" and another replying "economics" while a pentagram is on the floor https://what-if.xkcd.com/111/

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 14/05/2025

This, but instead of "economics" it's "Using LLMs"

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 08/05/2025

No one is surprised, everyone is disappointed

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 29/04/2025

Leader pushing for AI adoption have it all wrong. Top down mandates to use AI aren't the way. If you are convinced AI will make people faster, increase your expectations and make AI tools and training available, then follow up to see if metrics improve(compare teams adopting AI to those that didn't)

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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

If you use `lh` units in your CSS, you can start to establish vertical rhythm in your web designs. Learn how in this short & easy tutorial. webkit.org/blog/16831/l...

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Polishing your typography with line height units

See how to use line-height units when setting paragraph margins, and create vertical rhythm in your text.

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 25/04/2025

Interesting POC rootkit that uses io_uring to perform tasks without using any syscalls, making it invisible to security tools which rely on those. The approach was found effective against many of the most popular security tools also used in containers: github.com/armosec/curing

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GitHub - armosec/curing: io_uring based rootkit

io_uring based rootkit. Contribute to armosec/curing development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 15/04/2025

It's the year of our lord 2025 and Slack still doesn't support syntax highlighting

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 03/04/2025

Trump is so #JuchePilled, Kim Jong Un really go to him with the letters

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Hugo Tunius 🦀 @hugotunius.se · 28/03/2025

Been attempting to code using Cursor for about 1 week now. It's not particularly good. There's so much hype about it, but my experience has been: - It struggles to follow instructions - Generates poor code - Goes off on random tangents - Forgets quickly #BadVibes #VibeCoding

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