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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yeah, I did. But it feels like eating wood shavings. I don't drink enough water to make it palatable

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Great meeting you in person! And one day I'll learn to stare at the right location on a camera

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 03/02/2026

Excited for #RustNYC this evening! Charles Giguere: Powering the Foresight Spatial Labs renderer with #Bevy @chrisdryden.bsky.social: Cutting Amazon build times by 40% with Rust Big thanks to our host @materialize.com!

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

It does exist in one specific way, which is that the compiler generates a bunch of client fields for you: __refetch fields (and some others). But there isn't any reason you can't write your own "adapter" (idk what to call it) and auto generate components for each form variation.

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Would love to hear about what you have in mind! Right now, Isograph is very pro-repeating yourself (in the Relay way of many fragments with the duplicate selections), which is to say, there's no way to "create many components in a loop" or the like. But we will definitely have that, at some point!

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GraphQL @graphql.org · 15/01/2026

🎤 The GraphQLConf CFP is open! Got a GraphQL idea or story to share? Join us May 6 - 7 at Meta HQ in Menlo Park. Submit your talk 👇 sessionize.com/graphqlconf...

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GraphQLConf 2026: Call for Papers

GraphQLConf 2026, the official GraphQL conference brought to you by the GraphQL Foundation, brings the entire GraphQL community together to learn, eng...

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Houdini is one of the most exciting things going in the world of GraphQL right now. Check out the video from the latest conference youtu.be/cRTYf59rYMU What is an ideal client when GraphQL goes full stack?

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

So what did we achieve? We - allowed Isograph to be adopted incrementally, and in more situations, while - substantially improving the DevEx of doing so, and - shipped support for optimistic updates, which raises the ceiling for the quality of app you can write :)

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

github.com/corydeppen who added docs about TanStack and StrictMode, and github.com/TheRealGchen who added docs related to troubleshooting! The team grows!

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corydeppen - Overview

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

But what makes me most excited is that this release included commits from **five** new contributors! The aforementioned github.com/lucasmachadorj and github.com/sp6370, as well as github.com/Cobord, who added tests to the compiler, and...

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lucasmachadorj - Overview

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

On top of this, we made internal refactors (quite a lot, actually). These had the effect of letting us ship additional language server features, improving the performance of the compiler and setting us up to support non-GraphQL backends. Great work by Vadim Evseev here!

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Now, the compiler doesn't recreate the entire __isograph folder on every incremental update, but instead just makes the minimal changes to the filesystem that are necessary!

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

But what we shipped doesn't end there! github.com/lucasmachadorj shipped a change that improved the perf of the compiler. In some local tests, incremental updates went from 144ms to 53ms and 125ms to 72ms. And these gains are likely going to be much larger in larger projects!

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lucasmachadorj - Overview

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

This relied on a refactor of the Isograph store. It's no longer a "single object", but rather a stack. Adding an optimistic response is simply adding a layer to this stack, which can be removed without any difficulty! And this sets us up for some pretty cool future wins 🙈

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

In cases like that, you can provide an optimisticNetworkResponse that will be written into the store for the duration of the network request, then dropped afterward!

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Oftentimes, you know what the network response will look like when you're making a network request. For example, if you are incrementing the star count on the Isograph repository, we can predict the response.

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

But wait... there's more! We also added support for providing optimistic responses! Check out this video for more youtube.com/watch?v=skWB... Once again, amazing work by @patrykwalach.bsky.social

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Isograph v0.5.0 — optimistic network responses

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

And the best part? This API uses all of the same Isograph primitives, you get a bunch of stuff for free: - re-rendering just the components are affected - the ability to garbage collect your data when you're done And so much more!

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

being able to write arbitrary data into the Isograph store is for you! You write data into Isograph, and then let Isograph take over rendering part of your page from there. This makes it dramatically easier (and lower risk) to adopt Isograph in new projects!

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Whether you're incrementally adopting Isograph on a per-component basis (and you should demand this of your frameworks!), or you don't have a GraphQL endpoint ready, or you have some external source of data (server-sent events, local storage, external APIs, etc.) then...

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

But that's enough about DevEx. Let's talk about some runtime features. First, the ability to write external data into Isograph... in a fully statically typed way! Thank you @patrykwalach.bsky.social for this amazing work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl5p...

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Isograph v0.5.0 — writing external data into the Isograph store

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

And not only does this work in VSCode, thanks to github.com/sp6370, we're also publishing the extension to the Open VSX registry! So you can use it in other editors! Thanks!!

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

And most importantly... if you select a field that doesn't exist, the extension will offer to create it for you! Wow!! Isograph is truly committed to helping you ship fast :)

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

We now have autocomplete of fields!

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Errors are now surfaced in VSCode!

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

First off, I want to talk about some of the amazing DevEx wins that have landed. Check out this video where we holistically look at the DX of Isograph, before talking about what is new in v0.5.0 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tNW...

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Isograph v0.5.0 — VSCode extension demonstration

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Hey folks! Isograph v0.5.0 has just been released!! The trend of groundbreaking releases continues 🎉 This release includes support for optimistic updates and for writing external data into Isograph. And it has massive DevEx wins 🤩 and huge perf wins. Let's dive in!

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 19/11/2025

Announcing our Containers in Rust track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Carson Weeks to explore container internals: kernel primitives (namespaces, cgroups, seccomp) and their role in isolation/resource control. See a #rustlang implementation for memory-safe inspection and tweaking. rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Containers in Rust track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes exploring Docker-style container internals: kernel primitives (namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, seccomp), and their role in isolation/resource control. See a Rust implementation for memory-safe inspection and tweaking. A circular photo shows Carson Weeks. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 24/11/2025

Announcing our Closed-Loop LLM Engineering track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Viraj Mehta to explore an LLM gateway leveraging #Tokio, Clarabel conic program solver, and #ClickHouse to update prompt-model sampling probabilities in real time. Plus: agent optimization competition! rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Closed-Loop LLM Engineering Built With Rust track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes how advertising companies have used multi-armed bandits to determine what ads to run in what context. The LLM gateway leverages the Tokio runtime, the Clarabel conic program solver, and ClickHouse to asynchronously update sampling probabilities of prompt-model pairs as inferences are being run. Bring your laptop to try it out and maybe win the agent optimization competition. A circular photo shows Viraj Mehta smiling. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 02/11/2025

Announcing our Safety Critical Rust track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join us for sessions on all things safety critical, led by Xander Cesari from the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium & Rust Project Content team. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 07/11/2025

Announcing our Scientific Computing track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Helmut Carter and James Logan to explore scientific computing in #RustLang. Discuss interoperability, accessibility, best practices, and community. Share experiences and ideas to shape the field. Waitlist: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Scientific Computing track. The slide has a mint green background with two Rust crab mascots wearing Statue of Liberty crowns in the top right corner. Text describes exploring scientific computing in Rust, discussing interoperability, accessibility, best practices, and community. Participants will share experiences, challenges, and ideas to shape the field. Two circular photos show the track leaders: Helmut Carter wearing glasses and a blue shirt with a patterned tie, and James Logan wearing glasses outdoors with green foliage in the background. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 12/11/2025

Announcing our Distributed Systems track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Brendan O'Brien for an open discussion where everyone interested in #DistributedSystems can share knowledge, challenges, and learn from the community to help us all be the best we can be. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Distributed Systems - an open discussion track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes a chance for everybody with a keen interest in distributed systems to come and share knowledge, challenges, and learn from others in the community to help us all be the best we can be. A circular photo shows Brendan O'Brien (b5) smiling. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 10/11/2025

Announcing our Interop Workshop: Rust - Python In 1 Hour at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join @nrposner.bsky.social for a whirlwind intro to #Rust-Python interop with #PyO3. Create a simple app using common patterns. Open to all skill levels, focused on beginners. Join the waitlist: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring an Interop Workshop: Rust - Python In 1 Hour track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes a whirlwind intro to Rust-Python interoperation with PyO3, covering basics, usefulness, and creating a simple Rust-Python application using common patterns in an interactive workshop. Open to all skill levels, focused on beginners. A circular photo shows Nico Posner outdoors with buildings in the background. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 04/11/2025

Announcing our Automate Crate Maintenance track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Yuri Astrakhan to explore CI, AutoFix, AutoPublish, and other tricks. Focus on code; let automation handle reviews, code hygiene, publishing, and maintenance with minimal effort. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring an Automate Crate Maintenance track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes the track as covering CI, AutoFix, AutoPublish, and other tricks, with a focus on letting automation handle reviews, code hygiene, publishing, and other maintenance with minimal effort. A circular photo shows Yuri Astrakhan wearing a blue button-up shirt. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 03/11/2025

Announcing our Managing Medium To Large Rust Projects track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Joshua Send for discussions on organization, modularization, and build strategies. Topics: crates vs modules, Cargo vs alternatives, compilation speed, generics vs dyns. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a new Managing Medium To Large Rust Projects track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes the track as covering organization, modularization, and build topics including crates vs modules, Cargo vs alternatives like Meson and Bazel, compilation speed, and generics vs dyns, with encouragement to share stories and practices. A circular photo shows Joshua Send outdoors wearing hiking gear. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 20/11/2025

Announcing our Turn ANYTHING into a database track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join @alexkesling.bsky.social with your laptops and crazy ideas. Walk through how to make almost anything queryable via SQL! Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Turn ANYTHING into a database track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text invites participants to bring their laptops and crazy ideas, as the session will walk through how to make damn near anything queryable via SQL. A circular photo shows Alex Kesling wearing glasses. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 14/11/2025

Announcing our Rust as a Common Implementation Language track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join @lucretiel.me to explore how established teams can benefit from Rust without full rewrites. Why maintain separate Java/Python/Node implementations when a single Rust library could serve all? rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Rust As A Common Implementation Language For Cross-Language Functionality track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes how while Rust is seeing growth in greenfield projects, established teams can also benefit without rewriting everything. Rust can serve as a library implementation language for functionality common to the organization. Why maintain separate Java/Python/Node implementations when you could have a single implementation used by all? Rust's emphasis on correctness and performance, solid C FFI story, and minimal runtime make it ideal for these common implementations. A circular photo shows Nathan West wearing glasses and a tan shirt, holding what appears to be a conference badge. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 16/11/2025

Announcing our Building with Rust & Goblin AI track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Will Berry to explore an open source workflow engine similar to n8n, written in Rust, that runs code in multiple languages and its real world breakthrough use cases. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Building with Rust & Goblin AI track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes how building an embedded workflow engine led to 66% cost savings. Learn about an open source workflow engine similar to n8n written in Rust that lets you write and run code in multiple languages, and the conceptual breakthrough it lead to for real world use cases. A circular photo shows Will Berry smiling, wearing a dark shirt. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 05/11/2025

Announcing our Make Your Own Gametank Game in Rust workshop at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Devin Brite to create games for the GameTank, an open source 8-bit console. Bring your laptop, build your own game (like Pong) in #RustLang, and play it together! Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Workshop: Make Your Own Gametank Game in Rust track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes the GameTank as an open source 8 bit game console based on the 6502 developed by Clyde Schaffer. Devin Brite put Rust on it. The workshop invites participants to bring their laptop to make their own video game (like Pong) in Rust and maybe even play it together. A circular photo shows Devin wearing sunglasses and a green t-shirt with a Game Boy design. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 13/11/2025

Announcing our Databases in Rust track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Dov Alperin to discuss #databases as complex distributed systems demanding both speed and safety. Explore why a growing number of teams are choosing to build databases in #RustLang. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 11/11/2025

Announcing our Diversity by Design: Strengthening Tech Communities Through Representation track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Stephanie Zavala to explore practical ways to grow diversity in tech, from outreach and contributor pipelines to allyship and inclusive project culture. rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Diversity by Design: Strengthening Tech Communities Through Representation track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes focusing on practical ways to grow diversity in tech, from outreach and contributor pipelines to allyship and inclusive project culture. Let's turn good intentions into measurable progress. A circular photo shows Stephanie Zavala smiling, wearing a dark patterned top. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 07/11/2025

Announcing our Service-Meta Architecture track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join David Souther to explore patterns that help #RustLang codebases evolve and tame complexity. Join the waitlist: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Service-Meta Architecture track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes exploring patterns that enable and encourage a codebase to change over time, taming complexity as services grow. Key principles include domain models, repositories, unit of work, and handlers, combining to form the Hexagonal Architecture. A circular photo shows David Souther smiling while holding a gray cat. The cat is not smiling. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 18/11/2025

Announcing Rust Fundamentals - An Interactive Workshop at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Savanni D'Gerinel for an interactive workshop exploring Rust fundamentals. Whether you want a #RustLang refresher or have never written a line of code, bring your laptop and dive in! Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

hey @jason.energy — this sounds great! Want to set something up? I sent you a message at info@codetv.dev Also great handle

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 09/11/2025

Excited for the #RustNYC talks Nov. 13! Herrington Darkholme will present a comprehensive guide to building custom linting tools for #RustLang projects. Matt Powers will speak about #SedonaDB, a geospatial compute engine that's built on #DataFusion. Register: www.meetup.com/rust-nyc/eve...

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Talks: Custom Rust Linting (ast-grep) & Geospatial DataFrame lib (SedonaDB), Thu, Nov 13, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. to give attendees plenty of time to grab pizza and socialize, and the talk begin at 7:30 p.m. **Talk #1: Custom Rust Linting** **Herrington Darkhol

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

And thank you @jem.graphile.org for suggesting the idea of an Unconf!!!!

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 30/10/2025

First annual Rust NYC Unconf registrations are open! rust.nyc/unconf

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I can't wait for this!! We've had an extremely strong year with - more meetups than in any previous year, - the largest meetup we've ever had, and - the most members of any Rust meetup in the world! And what better way to celebrate but to cap it off with an unconf!!!

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