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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Besides libraries, what are the best stores for ebooks that are DRM-free, or at least easily liberated? Looking to buy a bunch of ebooks to read on my Xteink X4 Pro.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Stop. Listening. To. Tech. Bros. They. Are. Not. Human. They. Are. Slop.

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's heart-warming to watch tech bros who deny the humanity of many groups of people based on different kinds of bigotry so intent on convincing us that their imaginary friend is human.

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Marco @mcognetta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨 [Token][ization] Paper Alert 🚨 Tokenization is a wildly understudied area of language modeling despite it having effects across all of NLP. Over the past ~8 months, 32 (!) tokenizer researchers put together the most comprehensive survey of the field. Check it out!

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valarauca @valarauca1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

$The, "Omni-man 'look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power'" meme. Except his face is overlayed with the Rust-Lang logo and the jets are various linters to actually enforce typing within Python.$

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 30/09/2026

Who wants to come to the Netherlands next month? Check out TechoramaNL! I'll be giving a full day software architecture workshop and presenting, along with a ton of amazing speakers!

Techorama
I'm speaking at Techorama 2026 Netherlands
Software Architecture Fundamentals
26-28 Oct 2026 Utrecht, The Netherlands

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hypothetically, is anyone looking to hire someone with a strong background in software engineering, a PhD in AI/ML, multiple years of real-world Rust experience. Additionally, this hypothetical person has experience with CUDA, autonomous drones, and satellite imagery.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Denmark is trolling Trump.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My copy of The Nerd Reich by @gilduran.com should be arriving in a couple of days. I can't wait to read it, even though I'm scared my outlook on the future will be even more grim.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is it worth getting one of the new base Mac Mini (M6, 16 GiB RAM, 256 GiB SSD) units, or should I bump some specs? I'll mainly be using it for Rust and embedded development. I don't really care about local LLM/agentic coding.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really wish I didn't have to wait 4-6 months for my Microduck to ship, but it's really awesome so many people have ordered one. I'm expecting there to be a pretty big and vibrant community. Stoked to share my journey! 🦆

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tonight's view from my balcony. I'm never gonna get tired of this place.

Photo showing a "burning" evening sky over Tromsøya and Kvaløya, as seen from mainland Tromsø.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Internet was nice while it lasted.

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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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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The only problem with the Microduck from Pollen Robotics (aka. @hf.co) is the extremely long shipping timeframe. I'm not getting mine until sometime next year 😢

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm going to @rustlab.it again this year! This will be my third year in a row attending my favorite conference ever. I've been lucky enough to attend a lot of dev conferences all over the world, including the very first NDC, but RustLab is my favorite. If you see me there, say hello! 🙂

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm currently trying to come up with a reasonable design for a kind of "transaction log" or "delta set" for tracking and replaying mutations of system state. Perhaps some kind of combo of a WAL and git commits. We've got a lot of complex state mutations that we want to be able to replay/debug.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Does anyone on here have any experiences to share about the Fairphone, specifically the 6 or 6 plus? I'm growing increasingly eager to disconnect myself from Big Tech, and looking for a phone that I can repair myself. Share both good and bad. Feel free to share other phone recommendations as well.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm looking for a really tiny USB-C drive with at least 8 GiB of storage, or at least enough for a functional Tails setup. Does anyone have any recommendations? I've found plenty of USB-A drives, including those pretty cool bracelets. However, I really want USB-C.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Any decent SDRs that are capable of receiving and transmitting over UHF, VHF and HF? Ideally I want something portable or at least semi-portable. Full kit is a bonus, but not required; I can provide my own antennas.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wanna do one last startup before I get too old. I've got tons of ideas, but none feel viable long term. I don't want to just start something and then sell out. I wanna nurture something and make it live on long after I retire (30 years from now). Maybe I'll just get go into woodworking instead 🙂

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 10/09/2026

#jj-vcs interoperability with Git continues to be key. The fact that ERSC can swap out the repo storage to not use Git, *and* can have a migration path to a future, better wire protocol than Git's, while preserving compatibility along the way, is amazing!

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyone know approximately when the RustConf recordings will be posted online? I missed all of this year due to other commitments.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I missed the RustConf sessions yesterday. What were the most enjoyable or inspiring ones you watched?

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm feeling burned out and disillusioned. I've got so many ideas I want to put out into the world, but I never manage to find the energy to do it. Something needs to change. Ideas are worthless, execution is everything.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm glad to see Rust become a "tier 1" language at Microsoft. Personally, I hope this means more folks actively working on the Azure SDK crates. Those crates have come a long way in the past year, which is great, but we're still missing important support like Azure Service Bus.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nice! I've used PB on Chrome for many years. Glad to see it finally make its way to Safari 🥳

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I keep offending some folks from the US with my "crazy socialism" and militant opposition to profit maximization. When your whole worldview is built on lies the most natural response is denial and other defensive behaviors. I'm not here to offend people though, so I'll revert to Rust and AI/ML 🙂

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 10/09/2026

We've been cooking at @ersc.io "What comes after git" ersc.io/blog/what-co...

ersc.io

What comes after git

Our thoughts about the future of version control

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've been "slightly" too ambitious on a passion project involving Rust and ESP32-C3 SoCs. I started to develop my own barebones OS, but I've realized I need to pivot to Embassy. My OS kinda works, but I don't really need an OS. Also, I'm brand new to RISC-V, so everything is 10x harder.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

FIRST LOOK: bluesky designs for the upcoming foldable iphone have been leaked

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 09/09/2026

exclusive: hands-on with the Duo

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Steve Jobs never would have signed off on this nonsense. I was hoping so long that the iPhone Duo rumors were false. Nah, this is not the Apple I used to respect and admire. It makes me sad.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The single biggest issue with the iPhone Duo, besides possible hinge issues, is that the folding screen needs to be plastic in order to bend. Plastic screens are terrible when compared to the glass screens we've grown accustomed to.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here we go; the iPhone Duo coming up. I'm skeptical.

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Marco Z @ocramz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

putting mathematicians out of a job with AI is a rookie game introducing CEOBench,

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Basically none of the best new iPhone and iOS features will be available in the EU/EEC and China. I guess this will be the first year in over a decade I will not be upgrading to the latest iPhone.

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Isar Aerospace reports that the payloads were delivered

Payloads delivered: Mission Success for 'Onward and Upward'! On board: CubeSats from TU Berlin, University of Maribor, @EnduroSat
, NTNU, and TU Wien Space Team, and an experiment by @Dcubedspace
. All selected through the @DLR_de
at DLR's Microlauncher Competition and supported through @esa
Boost! Thank you for flying with us!

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's a real shame Isar Aerospace is only (active) on the The Hellsite (aka. X). Maybe we can convince them to come here instead, or to W Social?

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'll try to get my hands on some proper camera gear for the next Isar launch 🙂

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Here's the video of the Isar Spectrum rocket launch as seen from my balcony in Tromsø. The video is a bit compressed and not great, but you can clearly see MECO, stage separation, and SES. You might be able to hear the sonic shockwaves as well.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Managed to see the Isar Spectrum rocket launch from my balcony in Tromsø. Really cool to be able to watch stuff launched to space, with my own eyes, that I later get to interact with at work.

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Crushed @silenttakedown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

yeah sure whatever, let lara croft cook potato stew on her phone for 2m0s of damage resistance who gives a shit anymore

a screenshot from the upcoming remake of Tomb Raider 1. lara croft is looking at her phone in the middle of an ancient ruin, and it's showing her a generic crafting menu, and a png of saucepan of stew that apparently her phone lets her cook for "Damage resistance" if she has 6 potatoes

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Same in my team, but we're definitely an outlier I think. I hope more of our teams will come to the same realization soon.

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Michael Gattozzi @mgattozzi.dev · 04/09/2026

Unfortunately a job offer I had fell through due to head count elimination so I am currently on the market for a new job! If you need someone with 11+ years of Rust, backend, and distributed systems experience I am your guy. Contact Email: michael@ductile.systems. Boosting appreciated!

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is really cool, but calling the usage of Claude Code "clean room reverse engineering" is laughable, and a symptom of how most people don't really understand how LLMs work (and have been trained).

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Anyone got recommendations for good ebook readers? I'm about ready to retire my Kindle from 2010. Color and stylus support for notes is a bonus, but definitely not a must-have. I value battery life and a decent screen above all else. I really want a backlit screen though.

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Going to try introducing #jj-vcs in my team at work. Wish me luck!

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Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️ @thomasjo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

To the people saying Google, Apple, etc. are "just using the GNIS data" as the source of their map data: not taking a stand is the same as being complicit. Be on the right side of history.

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