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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 29/09/2026

I'm declining to publish the next PR for my open-source project because it's just too good and I don't think you're ready for it. It's not because it's simply not finished. Trust me.

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FerrousSystems @ferroussystems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Universal Signalling and the Ferrocene team are developing the first railway certification package for Rust under EN 50716, establishing a pathway for Rust in safety-critical railway applications. Read more: bit.ly/4z193o6 #UniversalSignalling #Ferrocene #RustLang #RailTech

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 27/09/2026

The Observer’s editorial today is about how Andy Burnham should “channel the white heat of AI to make the government more responsive, make the economy more attractive to investors, and – as promised – improve people’s lives” What would improve my life is not having to read this bollocks.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 25/09/2026

Just chilling at Torp Sandefjord airport in Norway, with my £32 burger and £8 Pepsi Max.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 24/09/2026

NDC TechTown was great. The location is incredible and the catering was brilliant. Lots of great conversations. I hope we can come again.

Water rushing over a weir in Kongsberg, back by Nordic fir trees and a gorgeous sky.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 23/09/2026

We won (joint winners) the C++ quiz at NDC Techtown. We warmed up by doing some Rust questions so our team name was https:// this . team . is . fkn . gay

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 22/09/2026

I’ll be at NDC TechTown this week, on the @ferroussystems.bsky.social booth. If you’re curious about Rust and want to know what the leading players are up to in the space, or if you’re ready for training, or tooling with long term support, drop by and say hello over the next two days.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 19/09/2026

Today was another Big Train Day. Started in Berlin Female ICE to Hamburg (look it up) ComfortJet to Copenhagen. Local train to Malmo, where I’m having Korean for tea and stopping the night. Tomorrow Gothenburg, then Oslo, then Kongsberg.

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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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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 16/09/2026

That’s a wrap on Oxidize for this year. I was running the Ferrous table, dipping in and out of the talks, and having a ton of great conversations. Shout out to Sabine, who was hard at work MC’ing both days, and to my colleagues Charlotte, Tobias and Jessie who put so much work in to make it happen.

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Oxidize Conference @oxidizeconf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What a great start to Oxidize 2026 🦀 One full day of workshops — safety-critical Rust, embedded systems, Rust and C/C++. Now, our first conference day has come to an end. Thanks to the speakers, the sponsors, and everyone who showed up. We're looking forward to tomorrow! #Rustlang #SafetyCritical

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14/09/2026

A 40-year-old kernel bug got discovered while on stage at DEF CON and the writeup is glorious

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How can you not be romantic about UNIX domain sockets?

A 40-year-old kernel bug discovered on the DEFCON 34 main stage.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 13/09/2026

New blog post: thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-20... My cores are now cache coherent and I don’t know why.

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JP's Website

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 12/09/2026

Ok, time to actually do some packing. On Monday I’m taking the train to Berlin. I’m doing the booth at the Oxidize conference. Saturday I’m taking a train from Berlin to Oslo. Probably Sunday too. Maybe Monday as well? Then I’m doing the booth at NDC Techtown. Then flying home.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 10/09/2026

If you type text into a box on a website and click a button to send the text to the website owner, the website owner gets the text you typed into the text box. And if the website owner is super keen for you to type text into that text box on their website, there’s probably a reason for that.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 10/09/2026

Hey Apple. Instead of making a folding phone, can you fix the text editing cursor being totally shit and regularly going outside the viewable area and generally not at all where I want it to go? kthxbye

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EuroRust @eurorust.eu · 09/09/2026

For his upcoming EuroRust talk, @thejpster.org.uk has a few words to share! 🦀 He'll be bootstrapping a brand new embedded Rust ecosystem for medium-size 32-bit Arm processors, a space that's been largely unexplored until now. See you in Barcelona, Jonathan! 📺✨ #EuroRust26 #RustLang

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 08/09/2026

Oh my word the new Veronica and Kate podcast is /extremely/ my jam. Five minutes in and we’re on Debian vs Gentoo, and Kate’s side project streaming 90’s Weather Channel style graphics with smooth jazz in the background on YouTube.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If my job ended up being supervising LLM agents, then I’d try to get another job. That sounds miserable tbh. I’ll be the resident debugger or something. I’ll charge twice the rate of anyone else.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 05/09/2026

Watched The Odyssey in IMAX today, for the second time. Still brilliant.

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Simen E. Sørensen @simenzhor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Some hopefully interesting reflections on how the team at my day job made the world’s first functional safety certified product based on Rust. This was a massive undertaking, and I think some of you might appreciate it 🦀 #rust #rustlang #safety #functionalsafety www.sonair.com/journal/how-...

sonair.com

Sonair | Journal | How we developed the world's first safety-certified product written in Rust – and why we went bare metal

We just certified it. ADAR One is the first safety-certified embedded system built in Rust. I want to share how we got here, for other Rust developers who are looking at safety-critical work and wonde...

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

‘Honest Bob’ Jenrick says he wants to “abolish” Natural England, and at the very least stop funding it, in the first 100 days of a putative Reform government. Reform may appear to be on the rocks currently but their plans are terrifying, mad & must be stopped. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Jenrick: “Even if you can’t abolish, I don’t know, Natural England within the first 100 days, you can stop funding it, you can turn the tap off and the tap will be turned off a lot of these quangos, and that will drive savings.”

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 02/09/2026

Hikers using ChatGPT to navigate Mount Shasta have gotten lost. In one instance this week, a group of climbers had to be rescued: “It was terrible — terrible — not even close to accurate.”

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Climbers rescued from Mount Shasta after relying on ChatGPT for trip planning

Hikers using ChatGPT to navigate Mount Shasta have gotten lost. In one instance this week, a group of climbers had to be rescued: “It was terrible — terrible — not even close to accurate.”

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 02/09/2026

Just another day being ruined by Github Actions being absolute clown shoes. Again.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/09/2026

This is the single biggest physics discovery of my entire lifetime. Or something's wrong with one of the cables. One of the two

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Tweede golf @tweedegolf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Dion and Hugo will be attending Oxidize 2026 in Berlin on 15-16 September! Reach out if you’d like to meet up! @oxidizeconf.bsky.social @diondokter.nl @hugovandepol.bsky.social #rustlang #OxidizeConf #embeddedrust

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Erk @erk.dev · 30/08/2026

This blog post is bit of a culmination about me thinking about `n..` ranges in Rust for way too long time. It is about why I think the current semantics for the iterator are wrong. erk.dev/2026/08/30/r...

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RangeFrom, Part 2..: What I think is wrong about the design

A trip around my opinions about the RangeFrom type and why I think the iterator has a wrong design

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 29/08/2026

I just bought a sealed, boxed retail copy of Lotus Notes 5. In my defence …. no, I don’t have a defence.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 29/08/2026

Two gentlemen in dark suits resolve a property tax dispute.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 24/08/2026

"Hi Molly, I'm [product name] — an AI platform, and full disclosure: no human wrote this email. That's kind of the point."

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Marley Kkt Throwing Laptop Out of Window

Alt: Person throws laptop out second story window, where it smashes on the ground

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The Centre for Computing History @computinghistory.org.uk · 22/08/2026

Retro Computer Festival 2026 is Go for Landing! This year we'll boldly go to a galaxy far far away. And Houston, we hope there's no problems. As you might have guessed, the theme is SPACE! Tickets available now - 14th / 15th Nov - no space suit required www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/77371/re...

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 22/08/2026

Wrote up my SMP failures as a blog post: www.thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-20...

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 22/08/2026

I’m enjoying BBC’s Vigil a lot.

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This Does Not Compute @thisdoesnotcompute.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ever have a project end up not quite meeting your expectations? That’s how I’ve felt about my turn-of-the-millennium vintage PC — and in the process of making it right, I almost killed it. New video! youtu.be/BkcYzlj4Ns0

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I thought I RUINED my dream PC...

YouTube video by This Does Not Compute

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is a cracking piece by the estimable @drdeanburnett.bsky.social - do #follow him for the best commentary on such things.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 20/08/2026

I still cannot work out how to make cache coherency work. 1. I've invalidated and then enabled the SCU 2. I've set the SMP bit and the FW bit in the ACTLR 3. I've set the L1 page table entry to WriteBackWriteAlloc 4. I've turned the MMU on 5. I've used Altera's code to invalidate/enable L1 and L2

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And if you have any interest in music whatsoever, definitely watch the whole documentary series (10 episodes in all), covering the entire history of music. The whole thing is here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Very positively reviewed by the Guardian too: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music review – it’s amazing that this staggering show exists

Charlotte Ritchie presents a wildly ambitious and unapologetically brainy YouTube documentary that takes in Big Bang soundwaves, singing dolphins and an astonishing amount in between. Don’t miss it fo...

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 18/08/2026

Best of the BRIT Awards 1995. Long since lost sadly. Some absolute bangers on there.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 16/08/2026

I sat down with a dev kit I've never used before this afternoon, and here we are running Rust code in SMP mode: codeberg.org/thejpster/he... It's a DE0-Nano-SOC board with an Altera Cyclone V, which is a FPGA + Dual-core Cortex-A9.

codeberg.org

hello-de0-nano-soc

Example code for the Terasic DE0-Nano-SOC board, with an Altera Cyclone V

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 13/08/2026

This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com

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Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 12/08/2026

My colander seems to be broken. I held it up to the light but the holes all appeared misshapen.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 12/08/2026

Godbolt's Compiler Explorer now supports build systems (like cargo). This is so cool! I use Compiler Explorer quite a bit when playing with AArch32 stuff in Rust, to check I'm getting the kind of instructions I expected but I was limited to single files. Having cargo support is game changing.

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The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com · 10/08/2026

WE'RE BACK! The iconic science & culture variety night Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People returns to @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social, London for 4 big shows this Dec. Hosted by @robinince.bsky.social, tickets on sale NOW, profits to charity as ever www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/nin...

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 09/08/2026

forgejo actions work just like github actions which is to say it takes me a hundred commits and six hours at 5% efficiency to get anything done

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 09/08/2026

zola 0.23 is out, but sadly it isn't compatible with the lightspeed theme I use. I think I'll stick to zola 0.22 for the time being.

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The Centre for Computing History @computinghistory.org.uk · 09/08/2026

A BIG thank you to our wonderful electricians Simon & Tom! 💡 They worked tirelessly through the July heatwave, whilst we were closed, to rewire our main gallery lighting. Swipe to see some BTS shots…and the amazing results! 🤩👏🏼

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