Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 19/09/2026If only Rust team meetings were more like thisyoutu.beMusicologists fight over Shubert - part 2 (to be continued)YouTube video by Emil Finkelshtein 010
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 15/09/2026"I can't really offer much advice here, [...] I can tell you why you really should never ever deal with time zones if you can help it." Oh no.youtube.comThe Problem with Time & Timezones - ComputerphileYouTube video by Computerphile 010
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 02/09/2026Turns out you can make better sounds if you read the manual... 040
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 31/08/2026Program management in July–August #rustlang Lots of Project Goals–related improvements this cycle! And now it's time for my vacation.blog.rust-lang.orgProgram management in July–August 2026 | Inside Rust BlogWant to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look! 080
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 27/08/2026Outer Wilds main theme played on a Synthstrom Deluge while in exile from the living room 140
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 27/08/2026Had a nightmare where shadows of my colleagues sat me down for a friendly chat and then kept making innuendos about me being unproductive at work and a waste of money :') Thinking how productivity can be a proxy for trying to earn the love of an unsafe father or brother, and then of other men. 020
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 26/08/2026I only have projects that I obsessively rewrite from scratch over and over again for months (years), and every time I discover more natural* designs and (shocker) notice more nuances in the problems. Building intimate relationships with my programs but never building programs… 130
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 16/08/2026In 2023 this was like one of those questions that make you realize you've been in a coma. I wish I could taste the life I had before I became aware of computer graphics 010
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 13/08/2026My boyfriend was suddenly laid off yesterday and is looking for work. If you need an editor or proofreader (or a writer), please talk to him, or share it with someone who might <3 142
Reposted by Nurzhan SakenCarter Anderson @cart.work · 10/08/2026Today is Bevy's sixth birthday! As always, I've used this as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline my hopes and dreams for the next year of #bevy: bevy.org/news/bevys-s...bevy.orgBevy's Sixth BirthdayHey! @cart here (Bevy's creator and Project Lead). It is crazy to say it, but Bevy is six years old now! As is tradition, I will take this as a chance… 110725
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 07/08/2026snooPING as usual i see?github.comRewrite goals ping job by nxsaken · Pull Request #2469 · rust-lang/triagebotRun the job every week, allow goals to be on custom reporting schedules (weekly, biweekly, 4-weekly deadlines), DM owners with an aggregate of all their goals that need updates (instead of sending ... 000
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 06/08/2026Loved meeting @alice-i-cecile.bsky.social at RustWeek and interviewing her about Project Goals (which both Rust and Bevy use). <3 This was my first time interviewing someone, and it feels like a full-circle moment since Alice's work is what drew me to program management in the first place!youtu.beRustWeek Interview: Alice Cecile, Staff Engineer at Bevy FoundationYouTube video by Rust Programming Language 0274
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 01/08/2026Exactly one year later, I walked into my first ever conference, a Rust conference, as a Rust Project member. (Also bothered to learn Socionics since then, so INFp/IEI actually, though that's still Ni-Ti in the system, basically the same.) 120
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 31/07/2026I switched to purely semantic highlighting in my code editor (I use nightly a lot), and suddenly I understand the nightmare I had 4 years ago, in which a mother asked the father of her kids if he remembered to turn on their syntax highlighting before bed; she worried that the kids were monochrome. 110
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 31/07/2026Wrote up a retrospective on the #rustlang All Hands 2026, and something on 2027 :-)blog.rust-lang.orgAll Hands 2026 retrospective | Inside Rust BlogWant to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look! 160
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 30/07/2026"A man may be convinced in all good faith that he has no religious ideas, but no one can fall so far away from humanity that he no longer has any dominating représentation collective. [...] Somewhere or other, overtly or covertly, he is possessed by a supraordinate idea." Jung (Collected Works 9.1) 120
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 21/07/2026Spitroasted by my coworker and therapist leaving on month-long breaks at the same time and getting half my wisdom teeth removed immediately after 140
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 17/07/2026My evil plan to abduct @chrisbiscardi.bsky.social from a Bevy picnic at RustWeek and smuggle him into the Rust Content team is now complete.youtube.comRust Release Changelog - 1.97.0YouTube video by Rust Programming Language 2214
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 15/07/2026Rust program management, July 2026: new Project Goals! new Comprehensibility team! committee on LLM policy? Rust for Linux & CPython! program management meta? All Hands 2027!blog.rust-lang.orgProgram management update — June 2026 | Inside Rust BlogWant to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look! 1112
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 13/07/2026Autistically walking in circles in the kitchen while snatching potato wedges from the fridge one by one and putting mayo on them is realigning all of them chis and chakras and yin yangs inside of me 020
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 22/06/2026Ship of Theseus has nothing on hearing Laura Shigihara's voice at the end of Deltarune Chapter 1 after many, many years since finishing Plants vs. Zombies for the first time 000
Reposted by Nurzhan SakenBevy @bevy.org · 19/06/2026Bevy 0.19 is out now! It features Next Generation Scenes, Render Bigger Scenes Faster, Contact Shadows, More Feathers Widgets, Text Input, Richer Text, App Settings, Post Processing Effects, Improved Skinned Mesh Culling, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-19bevy.orgBevy 0.19Thanks to 261 contributors, 1185 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.19 release on crates.… 7343128
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 12/06/2026Oh! There was a directly related talk at RustWeek. At 33:44, someone brings up GhostCell; earlier, at 28:05, @aapoalas.trynova.dev talks about a similar approach in gc-arena, and the speaker also mentions Haskell's ST monad, which expresses the same idea. See also: the generativity crate.youtube.comCommon Pitfalls of Rewriting Things In Rust (Cliff L. Biffle at RustWeek)YouTube video by RustNL 070
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 11/06/2026Rust program management, May 2026... RustWeek! Video interviews! Project Goals! Funding! Mirroring! Rust for Linux! More meeting notes!blog.rust-lang.orgProgram management update — May 2026 | Inside Rust BlogWant to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look! 0132
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 11/06/2026I'm still sort of shocked that I got to watch like a third of them live... 160
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 08/06/2026TECHNICAL RELATIONSHIPS ARE VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS.ppig.orgPsychology of Programming Interest Group 010
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 05/06/2026Thanks to the GhostCell paper for teaching me branded types in Rust via invariant lifetimes. This has been *awesome* for eliminating pretty much all bounds and length checks in my indexing-heavy code (and enforcing more subtle invariants).plv.mpi-sws.orgGhostCell: Separating Permissions from Data in Rust 070
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 28/05/2026The Rust Project has been messing with my dreams. Last time, I was in a Sims-like where Project Goals were people and I took care of them. Today, I drowned myself in a flooded room to reveal a nested dream hinting at a key (shard 🙄) to a chest hidden on an archipelago, and it was somehow relevant. 150
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 18/05/2026Rust Project goals, end of 2025H2blog.rust-lang.orgProject goals update — April 2026 (end of 2025H2) | Rust BlogEmpowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. 030
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 13/05/2026April in Rust program managementblog.rust-lang.orgProgram management update — April 2026 | Inside Rust BlogWant to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look! 060
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 12/04/2026TIL that since Rust 1.79 (god I'm old) these trait bounds: ~~~ Foo: Bar, <Foo as Bar>::Baz: Qux, ~~~ can be collapsed into: ~~~ Foo: Bar<Baz: Qux>, ~~~ Types and traits get massive in my project because of const generics and const traits, so this is really satisfying <3 051
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 10/04/2026Throwback to the Tarot cards I pulled while building a line clipping library. The Five of Wands represents undifferentiated input line segments, while the Four and Eight of Wands show their progressive differentiation into the four quadrants and then the eight octants (see Bresenham's algorithm). 210
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 10/04/2026March in program management #rustlangblog.rust-lang.orgProgram management update — March 2026 | Inside Rust BlogWant to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look! 030
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 30/03/2026Something about allocators as symbols of the Great Mother, the heap as the womb, and the stack as the Father.github.comAllocator traits and std::heap · Issue #32838 · rust-lang/rust📢 This feature has a dedicated working group, please direct comments and concerns to the working group's repo. The remainder of this post is no longer an accurate summary of the current state; see ... 020
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 27/03/2026February in Rust program managementblog.rust-lang.orgProgram management update — February 2026 | Inside Rust BlogWant to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look! 0121
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 06/03/2026Brought five really vivid dreams from the last two nights into analysis today, and even returned to a couple of much older ones. I'm so happy I get to talk about them with someone for an hour twice a week. 020
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 27/02/2026Got through my first month doing program management work for Rust. So grateful for the support I've gotten, and I hope I get to do this for a long time :-) 0150
Reposted by Nurzhan SakenEgor @eggbreus.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I wrote an article on the Great Mouravi - Giorgi Saakadze - a little earlier this month. It took 3 months of research and covers his life, the legacy of his legend, and the statue to him in Tbilisi today. I try to answer - was he a traitor or hero of Georgia? #sakartvelo #writing #georgianhistoryegorbreus.substack.comAbout That Saakadze Statue...The life & legacy of Giorgi Saakadze 011
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 30/10/2025Grids and geometry are first-class citizens in my game engine. Same zero-cost APIs are used for graphics, level editor, collision detection, world maps. There's no difference between querying solids in an area and checking if a sprite has pixels of a color along a line. #rustlang #gamedev #indiedev 0134
Nurzhan Saken @saken.me · 30/10/2025Oh hey, another Rust release I contributed to (stabilized strict arithmetic, which panics on overflow) 030
