iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I’m now team leader of the Rust Infrastructure team! I’ll keep shipping, but I’ll also pay more attention to the load, health, and overall direction of the team.

https://rust-lang.org/governance/teams/infra/

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 25/09/2026

My stream deck plugin for the ChatGPT Desktop App is available in the Elgato marketplace (free and open source)! 🐈‍⬛ marketplace.elgato.com/product/cha... My favorite features: seeing the progress of the chats on the device and clicking their button to open them in the App.

marketplace.elgato.com

ChatGato | Elgato Marketplace

A Stream Deck plugin to control the OpenAI ChatGPT desktop app (Codex). ChatGato shows live status for up to 20 local or SSH-hosted chats, displays remaining Codex usage limits, and provides keys for approvals, voice input, Fast and Plan modes, reasoning level, navigation, Submit, Fork, Review, and more. No API key...

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 21/09/2026

And finally, a reminder to all open source maintainers working on their spare time: you owe nothing to your users! Your time is a gift you are doing to the open source community. People can't demand more gifts or more expensive one.

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 21/09/2026

This is the most sustainable way I found to keep maintaining release-plz in my spare time. It seems like it's working. In the last month: - 39 PRs merged in main excluding automations such as renovate. - closed 18 issues. Lots of bug fixes!

Dashboard summarizing GitHub activity over a month.

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 21/09/2026

Another thing I'm experimenting with: I created a bot account (marcoienibot). Agents are free to use it to create PRs with it when I ask to fix an issue. I'm also experimenting with "review -> fix" loops. Still needs improvements because sometimes PRs becomes too big.

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 21/09/2026

That said, I still require your human review before submitting a PR to avoid getting tens of low-quality PRs and wasting token reviewing them. I also require human review (ideally human voice) in issues, discussions, comments, etc.

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 21/09/2026

Almost all PRs I received in the last months contained AI generated code. I trust my prompts/harness/skills more then the ones of random external contributors. Why should I spend my time reviewing their AI generated code instead of mine?

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 21/09/2026

Generally, Astra will review your code first. If it says there's a better implementation I'll never review your PR. Instead, I'll let Astra + Fable 5.1 write a new PR. If Astra think it makes sense, Astra will include your commits in the new PR to acknowledge your work.

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 21/09/2026

I changed the Pull Request template of release-plz. I realized I don't care if you used AI to write code, or how you used AI, or which model you used. I just want to make sure you reviewed the code before submitting it. 🧵

Screenshot of PR https://github.com/release-plz/.github/pull/2

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 19/09/2026

TIL you can checkout pull requests locally in one click with the VSCode "GitHub Pull Requests" extension.

A screenshot of VSCode showing open GitHub pull requests thanks to the extension. An arrow button allows to checkout the pull request.

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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 17/09/2026

⚠️ We believe that there is an ongoing campaign targeting owners of popular crates and rust-lang team members that is attempting to compromise devices and accounts in order to use them to publish malware. See our blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/17/t...

blog.rust-lang.org

Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 04/09/2026

I haven't had enough energy to work on release-plz recently. I preferred to spend my spare time on new side projects. However, I have some trips/PTO coming up in the following two months, so I'll try to catch up with PRs and issues. Let's see 🤞

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 03/09/2026

We rewrote one internal tool to use Rust (instead of TS/Node) as a proof of concept/trial balloon, and yesterday switched over one of our hourly jobs to use it instead of the TS version that it had been using. Over 10× better memory usage and 10–100× improvement in how fast it runs. 🤩

Bar graph showing timing of an hourly pipeline. It shows a relatively steady state, some growing outliers, and then a huge drop to a new steady state baseline.

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 31/08/2026

I like how Zed integrated Agents in their IDE. It has the multi-project view (which VSCode lacks) and LSP support (which ChatGPT, Amp, T3Code and others lack). If they integrate GitHub PR reviews I will try to use it instead of ChatGPT App + VSCode!

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 29/08/2026

I'm building a ChatGPT Desktop Elgato Stream Deck plugin. Here is the progress I made with the icons.

Grid of colorful icons representing task statuses and actions, including "DONE," "WORKING," "ALLOW," and "SUBMIT."

A grid of icons indicating tasks for a ChatGPT plugin, showing statuses like "working," "approval," and "done," with action buttons.

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 28/08/2026

Great video about how to secure your dev environment. Recently I started using lima. youtu.be/-ulRSvQIObk

youtube.com

STOP Running Code On Your Computer

In this video CJ explains basic secure code isolation concepts and ...

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 26/08/2026

Glad to see the Rust Foundation continuing to grow the ways it gives money to support Rust's development.

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 16/08/2026

I also use it for real stuff. For critical things, I review the code and try to improve it 👍

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 11/08/2026

Could I have achieved the same by prompting more? Probably, but sometimes when you have an intuition it's faster to edit the code manually.

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 11/08/2026

I still got it 😎 I have no issues with vibe coding side projects, but for critical systems like the crates-io CDN, I still want to refine the code generated by AI.

my prompt:
I did some changes manually to your version. Do you like it more? Is it more efficient now?

AI:
Yes—I like your version more. It’s also slightly more efficient than mine.

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GitHub @github.com · 30/07/2026

No but really. Stacked PRs now on GitHub. github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/?utm_source=Bluesky-launch&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=stacked-prs-gtm-public-preview-2026

github.blog

Stacked pull requests are now in public preview - GitHub Changelog

Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you can…

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 27/07/2026

Voice dictation with FluidVoice is more accurate if I use a good quality microphone. Overall, dictation stresses my arms less, and I feel like I can dictate faster than I can type. 👍 I still review the results of the dictation and fix them by typing where necessary.

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 17/07/2026

Great to see @release-plz.dev in the CI battery pack! 🥳

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 17/07/2026

Here is what the #rustlang Infrastructure Team worked on in the last three months and what we want to do next!

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The Rust Foundation @rustfoundation.org · 15/07/2026

crates.io must make it easy to audit and trust the dependencies millions of Rust developers rely on. In the team's latest development update, Rust Foundation Software Engineer @tobias.bieniek.cloud (on behalf of the crates.io team) covers 6 months of changes: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/07/13/c...

blog.rust-lang.org

crates.io: development update | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Tobias Bieniek @tobias.bieniek.cloud · 13/07/2026

🦀 in case you're wondering what the crates.io team has been up to for the past 6 months: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/07/13/c... - Source Code Viewer - Untangling crates.io Accounts from GitHub - Advisories and Suggestions - Cuter Error Pages - Svelte Frontend Migration Completed #rustlang

blog.rust-lang.org

crates.io: development update | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 09/07/2026

Check out our latest Maintainer Spotlight for an interview with Gen Li, team lead of the Rustup team: blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/... This is part of a series of blog posts highlighting our amazing maintainers. 💛

blog.rust-lang.org

Maintainer spotlight: Gen Li (@rami3l) | Inside Rust Blog

Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!

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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 09/07/2026

Rust 1.97.0 has been released! 🌈 ✨ 🦀 Some of the highlights are new symbol mangling, a new Cargo setting for Rust warnings, linker output, and new integer methods: bit_width, {lowest,highest}_one, isolate_{lowest,highest}_one. Check out the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/07/09/R...

blog.rust-lang.org

Announcing Rust 1.97.0 | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 09/07/2026

New Raycast snippet, useful when writing docs

Snippet:

<details>
<summary><i>{argument name="Title"}</i></summary>
{cursor}
</details>

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The Rust Foundation @rustfoundation.org · 08/07/2026

Big infrastructure security win for #rustlang: we've rolled out Ubuntu Pro on some of our servers thanks to 25 donated subscriptions from Canonical. Extended patching + reboot-free kernel updates for systems like docs.rs and Crater 🎉 Learn more from @ieni.dev: rustfoundation.org/media/streng...

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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 06/07/2026

my fav little rust ecosystem easter egg is package.metadata.docs.rs

package.metadata.docs.rs

Metadata

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 03/07/2026

TIL google docs has "Edit → Paste from Markdown"

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Tobias Bieniek @tobias.bieniek.cloud · 27/06/2026

🦀 first basic prototype for the diff viewer on crates.io seems to work as planned 😍 and the regular code viewer is now publicly released :) #rustlang

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Tobias Bieniek @tobias.bieniek.cloud · 25/06/2026

🦀 It's open for "public" beta testing now! Example: crates.io/crates/base6... The code viewer is not linked anywhere yet while we test it. Just append `/code` to the crate URLs 😉 #rustlang

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 20/06/2026

Now you can create a Rust game where you interact with Rust TUIs 🙈

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 17/06/2026

Welcome, and thanks! ❤️

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The Rust Foundation @rustfoundation.org · 17/06/2026

Some reflections from @lorilorusso.bsky.social (Rust Foundation Director of Outreach) on what OpenAI's new membership and additional contribution mean for the maintainers and open source projects that make #rustlang what it is: rustfoundation.org/media/on-ope...

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On OpenAI's Support for Rust - The Rust Foundation

The Rust Foundation was happy to announce OpenAI as our newest Platinum Member today, as part of a $600,000 total contribution in support of the Rust Project and the broader Rust ecosystem. Membership...

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The Rust Foundation @rustfoundation.org · 16/06/2026

We're building the Rust Commercial Network: A free community where the companies running Rust in production work together and with Rust community members to advance language adoption. First public meeting: June 22, 4pm UTC. All welcome. More info: rustfoundation.org/media/buildi...

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Tobias Bieniek @tobias.bieniek.cloud · 15/06/2026

🦀 I've now extracted the dataset to github.com/rust-lang/st... This should make it easier to other tools to make use of the data. The combined dataset is available as rust-lang.github.io/std-replacem... :) Contributions welcome! ✨ #rustlang

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GitHub - rust-lang/std-replacement-data: Curated dataset of standard-library replacements for crates, surfaced on crates.io

Curated dataset of standard-library replacements for crates, surfaced on crates.io - rust-lang/std-replacement-data

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 12/06/2026

Happy birthday Orhun! 🥳

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Kiran @kirancodes.me · 10/06/2026

evergreen

New: malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to their spyware.

Goal? to trigger LLM safety refusals.... so that their spyware couldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner.

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