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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 29/08/2026

I got a 2-meow server rack. Highly recommend.

Two cats exploring the inside of a 12U server rack.

Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 19/07/2026

Recording of yesterday's open source maintenance stream is now up! We got through left-right (a concurrency primitive), HdrHistogram (a fun data structure), rust-imap (you guessed it), and inferno (the Rust port of flamegraph) in about 5 hours — OSS is no joke 😅 youtu.be/bAINppA0BSU

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Open Source Maintenance, 2026-07-18

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 14/07/2026

Haven't done an open source maintenance stream in a while, and by now I have a few open open-source issues and pull requests I'm behind on, so let's rectify that! Stream will be this Saturday at 1pm UTC on youtube.com/live/7h7ciBk... — see you there!

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Open source maintenance

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 11/04/2026

After the AI Engineer conference, which was full of useful criticism, I remembered that the most confident takes on AI often came from the least exposure. Rejection is easy, trial and error is expensive. I wrote about it. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/11/th...

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The Center Has a Bias

Why a measured position on AI tends to lean towards actually trying it.

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 04/04/2026

Recording of yesterday's stream implementing a WAV noise file generator in #rust is now up on YouTube! We managed to get white, pink, brownian, blue, violet, and grey (psychoacoustic!) noise all implemented, so I'll count that as a success 🔊 youtu.be/zOTE4BN59u4

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impl Rust: WAV noise generator

YouTube video by Jon Gjengset

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 01/04/2026

A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Daniel from Rock the JVM, a channel (unsurprisingly) for folks in the JVM ecosystem. It was fun to chat about Rust with someone "from the outside", and if you want to hear it, it's now up on his YouTube channel! youtu.be/Cg8gASzqqOs?...

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Jon Gjengset on Rust Internals, Vibe Coding, and Teaching by Streaming

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 31/03/2026

The past few streams have been pretty high level, but not this time! Friday at 4p UTC (everytimezone.com?t=69cf0300,3c0), we're going back down to "what bits go where". We'll try to write an audio generator that produces WAV files with white/pink/brown noise by hand 🔊 youtube.com/live/BKHE7st...

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impl Rust: WAV noise generator

YouTube video by Jon Gjengset

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 26/03/2026

Back in January I gave a talk at Jane Street titled "Are Mutexes Slow?" (I gave a lightning version of it at @rustikon.dev last week!). And it's now up on YouTube if you're interested in wonky details about CPU cache coherence and the cost of coordination! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tND-...

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The Cost of Concurrency Coordination with Jon Gjengset

YouTube video by Jane Street

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 05/03/2026

Sadly I can't make it to the inaugural TokioConf (Portland, Apr 20-22), but I do have a 15% off code I've been told to hand out to people excited to go! So, if you've been on the fence, ping me and I'll see what I can do! More on the conf & who it's for (most people!) here: tokio.rs/blog/2026-03...

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TokioConf Update: What to Expect | Tokio - An asynchronous Rust runtime

Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It provides async I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, and more.

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 19/02/2026

In January, @anishathalye.bsky.social, @josejg.bsky.social, and I returned to @csail.mit.edu to teach Missing Semester, a class on topics we miss from most CS programs—tools and techniques that everyone should know, like Bash, Git, CI, and AI tools. Today, we’re releasing the course for free online!

The Missing Semester of your CS education [MIT IAP 2026] - https://missing.csail.mit.edu

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 08/02/2026

@alex.wcgw.dev Hey Alex! First, thanks a lot for taking on ownership of ANTLR4 for Rust! Second, I see you made some improvements to the README over the past couple of days — was that because of my stream by any chance? 😅

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 06/02/2026

Recording of our "port avro-tools' Java-based idl-to-json tool to Rust using an LLM" adventure is now on YouTube! We got to an initial working implementation in ~4hrs (though still bugs to iron out in future iterations), which isn't too shabby! Code at github.com/jonhoo/avdl. youtu.be/vmKvw73V394

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impl Rust: Avro IDL tool in Rust via ANTLR

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 02/02/2026

Friday 9a UTC (everytimezone.com/s/5903cd46) sounds like a good time for a stream! This time, we'll try to port Avro's IDL-to-JSON tool from Java to Rust (with LLM help), leveraging the fact that their grammar is written using ANTLR to make our job easier. Come join me 🎉 youtube.com/live/NqV_KhD...

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impl Rust: Avro IDL tool in Rust via ANTLR

YouTube video by Jon Gjengset

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 02/01/2026

The recording of the new year's Q&A stream is now up, with all the questions annotated for easy skipping! youtu.be/S_zp82fYrGw

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January 2026 Q&A

YouTube video by Jon Gjengset

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 30/12/2025

Quick reminder that this is coming up. Lots of good questions have come in, so please take some time to go in and vote for the ones you care the most about!

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 26/12/2025

We're nearing the new year, so time for another Jan 1st Q&A! Ask questions at wewerewondering.com/event/01KDDA... — none too big or small. I'll get to as many as I can, and upload the recording after the fact. Stream starts 1/1/26 at 2:30p UTC @ youtube.com/live/g1ZgInF.... Hope to see you there ❤️

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Q&A

Zero-setup, free tool for running live Q&A sessions, including question submission and voting.

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 08/12/2025

Okay, this is pretty cool.

YouTube silver creator award presented to Jon Gjengset for passing 100,000 subscribers. J and Ferris plushies in the background.

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 30/11/2025

Video of the One Billion Row Challenge stream is now up at youtu.be/tCY7p6dVAGE! We got down to 1.2s without any external dependencies, and it was a fun journey down lots of performance rabbit holes (only some of which panned out 😅). It is over 10h, but hopefully the chapters in the video help!

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 24/11/2025

I'm late to the party, but the One Billion Row Challenge (github.com/gunnarmorlin...) feels like an excellent way to dig into optimizing Rust code and learning somethings about assembly, SIMD, performance profiling, and just CPUs in general in the process, so let's take it on live! [1/3]

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GitHub - gunnarmorling/1brc: 1️⃣🐝🏎️ The One Billion Row Challenge -- A fun exploration of how quickly 1B rows from a text file can be aggregated with Java

1️⃣🐝🏎️ The One Billion Row Challenge -- A fun exploration of how quickly 1B rows from a text file can be aggregated with Java - gunnarmorling/1brc

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 09/11/2025

I've been a fan of Cory Doctorow for ages, and this episode of Adam Conover's podcast is a great synthesis of his observations on the tech industry across the board, both what's broken and how we fix it. And a slew of other great insights. Highly recommended listen! headgum.com/factually-wi...

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Factually! with Adam Conover - The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow

The internet is getting shittier. Hell, the whole world is getting shittier. The thing is, it’s no accident—it’s by design. The tech giants who run the internet have figured out how to make bank off o...

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 20/10/2025

On Sunday at 2pm UTC (everytimezone.com?t=68fd6480,348), Ben and I are doing another "What's New in Rust" marathon stream for Rustacean Station! I'm guessing ~5h for part 1 😅 It'll be over at youtube.com/live/6mwVWmK.... Come join us 📺🎉

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What's New in Rust 1.81-1.?? Rustacean Station marathon

YouTube video by Jon Gjengset

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 09/10/2025

In August, I was interviewed by JetBrains about programming and Rust, ranging from the borrow checker, to agentic coding, to hiring. And it's now on YouTube! It's also general enough that it should be interesting even to those not already knee deep in Rust 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOSx...

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 29/09/2025

About a month ago, I gave a talk at the Rust Amsterdam meetup about Sguaba (the type-safe spatial math Rust crate), and the recording of that is now online for anyone who wants their head to hurt with frames of reference and coordinate transforms 😅 youtu.be/kESBAiTYMoQ

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Sguaba: Type-safe spatial math in Rust

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 23/09/2025

For those who missed the stream, you can find my chat with Maya about Rust, concurrency, left-right, Noria, career development, AI, and a whole host of other random nerdy things on YouTube now! www.youtube.com/live/kJnrbbt...

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two nerds one stream w/ @jonhoo! 💜 chatting about rust/concurrency/anything you ask about!

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 17/09/2025

Sunday at 6pm UTC (everytimezone.com/s/4a616697), I'll be on Maya Rainer's stream to talk about concurrency and the left-right crate. We'll take a bunch of questions from chat, so bring your burning `Send + Sync` questions :D Stream will be over at www.twitch.tv/mayarainer/s... — see you there!

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mayarainer Schedule - Twitch

Check out mayarainer stream schedule, and set reminders so you don’t miss out!

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 05/08/2025

For those curious about the third proposed Sguaba feature, I ended up writing it myself and having Claude suggest tests. Worked quite well! Given the nuances in designing this mechanism, I suspect it would have struggled quite a lot with implementing it from scratch 😅 github.com/helsing-ai/s...

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feat: make Vector generic over unit by jonhoo · Pull Request #31 · helsing-ai/sguaba

This adds support for velocity and acceleration vectors alongside the original length vectors, enabling users to store vectors that hold velocity or acceleration without losing that semantic inform...

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anishathalye.bsky.social @anishathalye.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Missing Semester has grown past 100K subscribers on YouTube. Appreciate all the engagement and support! We plan to teach another iteration of the course in January 2026, revising the curriculum and covering new topics like AI IDEs and vibe coding.

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 01/08/2025

Today's "vibe-code non-trivial changes to a Rust crate" stream is up! Got to 2/4 changes and then ran out of tokens on the Claude Pro plan 😅 Still TBD if my Luddite skepticism is apt, but it was fun, interesting, and did shed light on the ups and downs of agentic Rust coding! youtu.be/EL7Au1tzNxE

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Vibe coding complex changes in Rust

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 24/07/2025

Change of plans — due to the ongoing heatwave in Oslo, and Norway's general lack of A/C, my office is regularly reaching 32°C/90°F these days. This breaks my brain, and also my camera, so I'm going to move this stream to the same time next week! See you then 👋

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 18/07/2025

Those who have followed me for a while may already know that I'm a bit of an ML Luddite. Well, it's time to challenge that. Next Friday at 17:30 UTC, I'll be attempting to vibe code complex changes to the Rust crate Sguaba (github.com/helsing-ai/s...) — come laugh at me! youtube.com/live/3NGXL_8...

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Vibe coding complex changes in Rust

Those who have followed me for a while may already know that I'm a bit of an ML Luddite — it's not that I'm opposed to the use of ML-based tools, but rather that I haven't personally found much use fo...

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 24/06/2025

The other day I was interviewed about Helsing, working in defense, and what it's like specifically to work at Helsing. We ended up covering quite a lot of questions I commonly get (and that I know people have but don't ask), so if you're curious about any aspect of it, give it a read!

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 22/06/2025

Next couple of streams are going to be back to Rust ones, but after that, any appetite for a "ask 'dummy' questions about programming" Q&A stream? Like, for folks who are newer to programming and have questions they feel silly for asking for example.

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 14/06/2025

A bit of a long shot: the regular audio editor for the "What's New" Rustacean Station episodes is now busy with other life stuff. The last episode I edited myself, but it took ages! Anyone know an editor (ideally familiar with Rust, but not a requirement) who'd take on a regular (paid) editing gig?

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Rustacean Station

Come journey with us into the weird, wonderful, and wily world of Rust.

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 31/05/2025

Question: if I end up doing more "play to learn"/"teach by playing" (name still tbd) streams on tech-but-not-Rust topics, would you all prefer for it to be on the same YouTube channel, a separate one, or does it not matter?

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 30/05/2025

SHENZHEN I/O stream where I try to teach some assembly by playing an assembly-inspired game is now up! This is very much an experiment, so please let me know if this format was still entertaining + educational :) youtu.be/zycRrVS3NLc

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Explaining assembly by playing SHENZHEN I/O

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 30/05/2025

For those who watched live from the beginning 😂 Not to worry, that part is cut out from the non-live version, but entertaining nonetheless.

A notice from YouTube that copyrighted content has been detected in the video "Explaining assembly by playing SHENZHEN I/O". Specifically "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 29/05/2025

Quick reminder that this is tomorrow!

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 26/05/2025

I'm enjoying the assembly-like coding puzzles in SHENZEN I/O (www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/), and am going to try teaching assembly by playing through it! Will it work as a stream? No idea, but join the experiment Friday at 3pm UTC (everytimezone.com/s/3aaea3a8) on youtube.com/live/wBREOhq... ! 🕹️

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Zachtronics | SHENZHEN I/O

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 23/05/2025

I have a bit of an odd idea: I've been trying out the game SHENZEN I/O (www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/), and have really enjoyed the assembly-like puzzle solving. I wonder if playing it and explaining assembly concepts along the way might make for an interesting stream — what do you all think?

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Zachtronics | SHENZHEN I/O

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 23/05/2025

I wrote a new Rust crate at work that we're now open sourcing! If you've ever had to deal with coordinate systems and rigid body transforms, Sguaba will hopefully make your life slightly less painful: blog.helsing.ai/sguaba-hard-...

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Sguaba: hard-to-misuse rigid body transforms for engineers with other things to worry about than…

There are a wide variety of ways to describe the locations of objects in space. To name a few, there is: WGS84, the well-known Earth-bound…

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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 05/04/2025

🦀 Hello World! The Rust project now has an official presence on Bluesky! ✨ We'll be posting the same on our Mastodon and Bluesky accounts, so you won't miss anything on either platform.

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 10/03/2025

Recording of yesterday's porting stream is now up at youtu.be/bbWcGAOsbIE. We nearly got to feature completeness (modulo SVG support), and even added some features along the way! You can find the resulting project (which still needs a bunch of love) over at github.com/jonhoo/dings.

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Porting the guff plot device to Rust

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 08/03/2025

Quick reminder that this is tomorrow!

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 04/03/2025

Time for another longer Rust impl stream! I haven't decided what I'm going to build yet, but come join me on Sunday at 3pm UTC (everytimezone.com/s/85eb076f) and find out 😅 I'm thinking maybe either the IRC protocol or a port of the guff plotter 🤔 www.youtube.com/live/MAwYsKY...

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impl Rust: topic TBD

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 02/01/2025

Yesterday's Q&A is now up, with all questions timestamped and added as YouTube chapters for easy jumping! In the span of four hours, we got through almost 90 questions(!). I hope you'll find it interesting, and I promise we'll be back to long-form from-scratch streams soon 😅 youtu.be/zw88-0ofBs0

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January 2025 Q&A

YouTube video by Jon Gjengset

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 30/12/2024

Quick reminder that this is happening in about a day and a half, and that earlier questions tend to get more votes 👀 It's worthwhile to submit & vote even if you can't make the live stream too, as the recording will be on YouTube afterwards (as always). See you there in 2025 🍾🎊

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Kai O'Connor @handle.invalid · 27/12/2024

Very practical insights from @jonhoo.eu. Thanks @timclicks.dev for the great interview. The sections on "how to approach a project refactor" and "how to approach a greenfield project" were especially helpful. timclicks.dev/podcast/reli...

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Reliable software: An interview with Jon Gjengset - timClicks (Tim McNamara)

Listen to Jon Gjengset discuss how to write high quality Rust software and keep it that way.

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 27/12/2024

New year, new Q&A; 1/1 at 5:30pm UTC: everytimezone.com/s/03a3a76f. Bring out your questions, however deep or superficial, and I'll do my best to answer 😅 Vote on questions and propose your own at wewerewondering.com/event/01JG4A... starting now! Stream will be at youtube.com/live/eMuGHXM... 🍿🙋

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Q&A

Zero-setup, free tool for running live Q&A sessions, including question submission and voting.

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 26/12/2024

Unsurprisingly I have opinions on this too, so I wrote mine down :) lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/12/26/r...

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Reflecting on Life

Things I learned and believe, condensed into some sort of guide.

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