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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 17/09/2026

"STOP DECOUPLING YOUR TRADE FROM OURS OR I WILL GIVE YOU A REASON TO DECOUPLE YOUR TRADE FROM OURS!!111" is my favourite episode so far

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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 27/08/2026

If you're building a modern application, chances are you need to think about identity Sometimes, you even need to give your machines identities so they can login. What's the smartest way to manage that in 2026? Come find out with @scottgerring.com and me. youtu.be/qwuLB44RMrk #softwaredevelopment

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The Smartest Approach to Handling Identity in Distributed Systems

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 03/07/2026

Tim Heidecker taking over infowars is what I needed www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnz6...

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ALEX JONES IS DEAD - Real InfoWars Livestream

YouTube video by InfoWars

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 11/06/2026

First go with the much-hyped anthropic model of the moment ... kinda disappointing? "Add pi to this devcontainer" - adds a nested mount for its config over the top of an existing mount, breaks devcontainer, live patches it to sort of work, rubs its hands together in satisfaction ☠️

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 27/05/2026

as far as coding agents go, pi is amazing. The malleability of the thing. I would _love_ to see a serious IDE built with the same "foundational primitives + easy extensibility" in mind

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 27/05/2026

Whenever someone refers to "their clanker" on PR feedback etc. it warms my heart

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 23/04/2026

@crawshaw.io of tailscale fame building a cloud because stacks of bespoke abstractions on stacks of bespoke abstractions kinda suck is .... legit interesting?! crawshaw.io/blog/buildin...

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crawshaw - 2026-04-22

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 21/04/2026

Confession: I've been using **light mode** in RustRover and I ... don't hate it. Time to retire?

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Devoxx UK @devoxx.uk · 17/04/2026

10 Things Rust Could Learn from Java (and 5 Things Java Should Probably Steal Back) by @scottgerring.com devoxx.co.uk/talk/?id=4260 Fun with Flags: Feature Flagging Without the Pain by @aepfli.bsky.social devoxx.co.uk/talk/?id=5784

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 14/04/2026

@bcantrill.bsky.social 's take on <screams> GENERATIVE AI CODING ASSISTANTS </screams> is refreshingly nuanced! bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

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The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 10/04/2026

Protip: stop reading new the news and listen to gizz instead www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ycw...

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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Crumbling Castle (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 23/03/2026

Excited to pop over the pond to talk about Rust & Java in just over a month @devoxx.uk !

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 05/03/2026

There's nothing like the smell of `docker system prune` in the morning

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 18/02/2026

It reflects well on a society when folks can unironically write songs like “Rasputin”

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 30/01/2026

Had a chuckle, but honestly for folk who haven’t already learnt how to Build Stuff Goodly, this is a bit terrifying - the obligation to use the tools to _go fast_, without ever building a the muscles to properly supervise them

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 30/01/2026

Clawdbot too powerful/terrifying for you? Introducing Geoff - a boring alternative - built _just for me_. Maybe all this AI vibe coding furor can usher back in the dream of PERSONAL computing - tools built by regular folk to scratch their own, particular itches.

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Introducing Geoff

A boring personal assistant for boring people

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 29/01/2026

It’s time for another blog on #systems engineering - this time about calling conventions - how do compilers emit machine code that let functions call each other, when the underlying CPU architecture has no concept of functions? Not sooo useful for building REST APIs, but nonetheless interesting :)

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All Along the Calltower

An adventure of discovery into the C calling conventions

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 28/01/2026

I switched a bunch of stuff I was running in the #homelab from k3s to plain old docker-compose, and dropped from 20% idle CPU usage to < 4%. CPU now spending about 80% of of its time in C7! I don't _need_ k8s for this stuff, and power is expensive, so ....

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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 24/01/2026

Thrilled to announce chapter 09 of the Rust Lambda book. In this one, we cover all things observability. If you're struggling to really understand your serverless applications, this one's the one for you. @loige.co 👀 #serverless #rust #rustlang rust-lambda.com

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Crafting Lambda Functions in Rust - eBook by Luciano Mammino and James Eastham

A practical guide on how to build efficient, sustainable, cost-effective serverless AWS solutions with the Rust programming language.

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 19/01/2026

James Eastham and my latest video on software dev is up! We try to distill down when it makes sense and when not to microservice, hopefully without alienating too many folks. Have a listen and let us know what you think!

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 23/12/2025

Incy Wincy Spider is Sisyphus for kids

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 22/12/2025

Anna’s Archive backing up all of Spotify is like a feel good version of the GenAI folks stealing everyone’s copyrighted content to train their models

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 19/12/2025

@jameseastham.co.uk and I are back again talking about software engineering! This time, we dive into API-first design - what it's good for, and how you can get started with it. Let us know what you think! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-R...

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The Incredible Power of API First Design

YouTube video by Datadog Community

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 10/12/2025

US State Department abolishing use of "Calibri" in documents because it is quote too diverse end quote is the most absurdly The Onion news I have read this year, and that is saying something

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 05/12/2025

#cloudflare down again? Hopefully wont blame rust this time 🥹

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 05/12/2025

The season of having my heart continuously broken by the snow forecast is upon us

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 02/12/2025

Congrats to our APM team on the preview release of dd-trace-rs! Now we have a nice opinionated datadog tracer for Rust folks 🥰 github.com/DataDog/dd-t...

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GitHub - DataDog/dd-trace-rs: Datadog APM for Rust

Datadog APM for Rust. Contribute to DataDog/dd-trace-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 27/11/2025

Zig’s moving to codeberg from github because of entshitification ! Proverbial canary ? ziglang.org/news/migrati...

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Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg ⚡ Zig Programming Language

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 26/11/2025

@jameseastham.co.uk and I have released the inaugural _second episode_ (coughs loudly) of our video series on modern software development - this time on James' favourite thing, **Event Storming** - a great tool to dive into a domain you're about to build something in!

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This Process Will Change How You Think About Designing Your Software

YouTube video by Datadog Community

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 12/11/2025

Come listen to @jameseastham.co.uk and I ramble about software architecture!

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 10/11/2025

Had a great time at @vdthess.bsky.social over the last few days talking about software quality. Enormous thanks to Pat and the rest of the organisers for putting on a great event!

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 06/11/2025

This is clever realization - you can use XDP also for fast **egress** by cleverly using veth pairs - #ebpf community continues to do wildly novel things ! loopholelabs.io/blog/xdp-for...

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Using XDP for Egress Traffic

XDP only works for ingress. We found a loophole that lets it work for egress. Here's how we did the impossible.

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 05/11/2025

Gotta say it’s nice to wake up and see some hopeful news from across the pond

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 30/10/2025

Google Slides diff view is surprisingly good? You can click through changes, and you get a big coloured box around what shifted. ... I kinda assume decent diffing was never gonna be a thing for presentations that _aren't_ written in some md/js framework

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 27/10/2025

Great summary of the vim->helix move. As a very long term vi user and relatively recent helix enthusiast this nicely summarises my xp jumping over

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Notes on switching to Helix from vim

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 09/10/2025

So this is fucking gross - the US is trying to pressure the EU, again with the threat of tariffs, to water down their environmental regulations. :surprised_pikachu: archive.is/Gh5JC#select...

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 18/09/2025

"look up and stay present" .. by "collaborating with visual Meta AI prompts" projected between your eyes and the folks _in the real world you are notionally trying to stay present with_. I don't understand if they are trying to redefine what 'present' means or they are just too deep in this rubbish

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 10/09/2025

I'm using lightmode in my IDE and ... my eyes haven't melted and i'm not disgusted with myself. Is it time to find a new career?

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 02/09/2025

A public holiday in the US affecting when the rest of us get the next Alien Earth episode is imho profoundly unreasonable

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Scott Gerring @scottgerring.com · 02/09/2025

Hey #jj folks, I am trying to write a idiomatic revset that finds the earliest change that diverged from main, so I can rebase a stack of changes onto the latest main when they diverge. The best I can do is: (::@ ~ ::main) & roots(::@ ~ ::main) Which strikes me as rather gnarly. Easier way?!

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