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compiler witch, striving to outshine stars 🌠 blog.ihatereality.space; github.com/wafflelapkin; i do stuff sometimes; it/its

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Mara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Exactly one year ago I stepped down from my main responsibilities in the Rust project, because of burnout. Today, a year later, I employ about a dozen full-time Rust maintainers through Hexcat+RustNL. I'm not doing much technical work anymore, but this people stuff is also pretty fun and motivating.
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 24/09/2026
wheww. presentation done ✅ time to relaxxx :3 I was also told that there will be a recording !
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David @noz.am · 24/09/2026
I got you
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 23/09/2026
I'm giving a talk titled "breaking changes are a social construct" tomorrow at the Amsterdam Rust meetup. You should come if you can! www.meetup.com/rust-amsterd...
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Rust Meetup @ BlockTech, Thu, Sep 24, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Join us for an evening of cutting-edge Rust talks, real-world use cases and great conversations hosted at BlockTech. This meetup is open to anybody who has an interest in t
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PolyWolf @polywolf.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
sorry non-followers u get zero context for this cool image
a busty butch lesbian labeled "Rust" is pinning "the value (me)" to the wall with a "std::pin::Pin". I am blushing and holding my tail bashfully as we gaze into each others' eyes. Hearts, sparkles, and roses adorn the pink-colored image.
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Jake Bailey @jakebailey.dev · 22/09/2026
please you must understand this is not a mental breakdown this is my life now
I don't even know where to start. an insane jj history. lines are going everywhere, it's like 50 different changes, interdependent, but 36 of them come off of one branch then either lead to various megamerges or to other fixes
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 21/09/2026
must be one of the stupidest bugs I have introduced to day
theemathas: People have just found out that `CovariantUnsafeCell` has a bug. It's not covariant.
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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 18/09/2026
I HAVE THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN I KNEW I WAS RIGHT TO HOLD OFF ON BUYING A PRINTER.
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 18/09/2026
it is literally wafflephobic that it's friday today
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Luna @moonbase.lgbt · 17/09/2026
programming language where mutability is determined by whether the identifier starts with a vowel or a constonant
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 17/09/2026
I'm going insane. a seemingly trivial change makes benchmarks 2-8 times worse. yet when I copy those benchmarks out to a separate binary, there is no slowdown.
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Mara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You can now sponsor RustNL's Rust Maintainer Team through GitHub Sponsors: github.com/sponsors/rus... The page also lists other options to send us money. With your support, we can make sure the Rust project stays well maintained and grow our team with new talent. 💛
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Sponsor @rustnl on GitHub Sponsors
Support our Rust Maintainers Team: https://rustnl.org/maintainers/ Over 30% of all pull requests on https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/ are either authored by or reviewed by our team.
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
took some time off work, went dancing tonight to get out of work headspace, danced with a guy in an adjacent town, and he's a compiler engineer and knows like half my colleagues and we talked about AST nodes and targeting ISAs via higher level IRs HOW DO I STOP WORKING PLEASE HELP
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Nelind @nel.pet · 15/09/2026
one pattern i keep noticing for myself is how much i wish people critiquing things i like would be better at doing it? like i have my issues with rusts syntax but most of the critiques of the syntax ive seen have ended up in comparing some pretty complicated rust code to some simple code in not-rust
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Mia @mia.omg.lol · 14/09/2026
when you think about it, Microsoft Teams / Slack notification noises are just clicker training for corpos
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 13/09/2026
little hurts more than "the thing that you've been procrastinating for months was actually important and you blew the deadline and now you have to accept the consequences"
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Alice ✨ @welltypedwit.ch · 12/09/2026
you know, i thought the reputation of cousot papers was at least a little exaggerated but no, they actually look like that lol (this is page 3)
a page full of symbols and operators and... biblically accurate expressions spanning several lines casually inlined into regular sentences as if they were obviously understandable
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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 11/09/2026
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
Semver breakdown for Kubernetes broken down humorously 

1 (major): useless, it will never change
25 (minor): it’s a minor version but everything breaks if you upgrade
6 (patch): random single digit, no one cares
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Spicymochi @spicymochi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Flower friends!
Illustration of a crow holding a yellow daisy and a magpie holding a pink carnation
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
important industry terms to know about: B2B: buy to buy SaaS: service as a service MRR/MAU: your cat is hungry
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 10/09/2026
"there is a type, alignment of which depends on the number of niches [in another type]" - statements dreamed up by utterly deranged
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RustNL @rustnl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
** Ticket sales now open ** Get your tickets for RustWeek 2027! We lowered the ticket prices: privately-paid tickets are now 199 instead of 249 euro. A checkbox enables a 100 euro discount for those who can't afford the full price ✨️. See you in Utrecht! 2027.rustweek.org #rustweek2027 #rust
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RustWeek 2027 - RustWeek 2027
RustWeek 2027, The Netherlands - May 24–29 2027. The world's biggest Rust conference returns to beautiful Utrecht, welcoming over 900+ community members, professionals and the maintainers of Rust.
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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Transitioning can actually make your life better. It's worth knowing this
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 09/09/2026
my friend wrote a blog post about rust's never type, and specifically the misconception that has been ragebaiting me ever since I stabilized it go read it !!
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annie @versary.town · 08/09/2026
yes! ive figured it out ! the reason im barely writing is because my static site generator sucks. if only i could redo it from scratch, better, nicer, with less friction, id surely write more
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 08/09/2026
not be incorrect about the never type challenge 2026 (apparently impossible for people posting online .-.)
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 08/09/2026
"for all possible environment functions, there exists a demon behavior, [...]" my head hurts
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 08/09/2026
do my eyes deceive me? did jj workspace colocation actually get merged?? github.com/jj-vcs/jj/pu...
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workspace add/forget: bridge jj workspaces with git worktrees by calebdw · Pull Request #9941 · jj-vcs/jj
jj workspace add gains --colocate/--no-colocate to control whether a Git worktree is created alongside the jj workspace. With neither flag, a worktree is created only when the current workspace is ...
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 08/09/2026
that's me btw, if you ever cared (follow the artist, she is great!!)
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Vivian @0x76.xirion.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
I have a spare #mrmcd ticket, as I won't end up attending. Shoot me a message if you want it
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 03/09/2026
it's so silly, my interrail ticket expires *just* before I could actually travel. what an unfortunate timing. I could have visited an oomf!! oh well...
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Alona @alona.page · 02/09/2026
dom mindset: every path to that node must go through me first switch mindset: i hope my case labels are consecutive so i can be transformed into a jump table sub mindset: i don’t care if my operands are signed or unsigned
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 02/09/2026
she copy on my write till I allocate or whatever
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Tom Lum @tomlumperson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Happy Baltimore Carbon Dating Day to all who celebrate
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 01/09/2026
⚠️ be careful when mentioning my name. I, just like the devil and bears, might appear
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Whimsy Bunny Doodles 🐇 @whimsybunnydoodles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Luna @moonbase.lgbt · 01/09/2026
in light of recent news i am going to switch from using 1password for everything to using one password for everything
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 01/09/2026
youtube videos about the never type are so funny
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 01/09/2026
the amount of pants that tore specifically on my butt is actually concerning waaaaa
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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 31/08/2026
Hey @1password.bsky.social, longtime customer here: stop giving your money to fascists.
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Mara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We lowered the ticket prices for RustWeek! Individual tickets are now 199 instead of 249 euro. ✨ Additionally, we added a checkbox for an extra 100 euro discount, bringing the ticket price to just 99 euros for those who can't afford the full price. 💛
Radio button: Conference Ticket - Privately-paid tickets (also for freelancers) - €199.00

Checkbox: I can’t afford this, give me €100 discount
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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Alleesaur 🌺🦖 @alleesaur.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
[ #oc ] witch of the stars
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Mara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
RustNL's Rust Maintainer Team has grown and now consists of 14 people, including three interns! ✨️ rustnl.org/maintainers/ Together, these people are either the author or a reviewer of more than 30% of all pull requests on the rust-lang/rust repository:
A table showing that the people of RustNL were involved as author or reviewer or approver of more than 30% of all pull requests merged in the past four months.
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 27/08/2026
never type stabilization in TWIR 666 :)
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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 26/08/2026
We are very happy to announce our first Maintainers in Residence and Maintainer Grant recipients! Read all about the MiR program and the selected maintainers on our blog: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/26/a...
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Announcing our first Maintainers in Residence | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
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isabel @isabelroses.com · 26/08/2026
i often think about bleeding out in the snow. too bad the uk never snows
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 26/08/2026
they fixed my favorite bug !! llvm no longer ignores alignment on avr !!! github.com/llvm/llvm-pr...
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[AVR] alignment of stack allocations gets silently ignored · Issue #169190 · llvm/llvm-project
Consider the following translation unit: struct nya { int a; }; void g(void *); void f() { _Alignas(64) struct nya x = {3}; g(&x); } When compiled with clang as follows, the generated code doesn't ...
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 25/08/2026
blog.ihatereality.space/0C-never-type/
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I stabilized never type | I hate reality
yeah
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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 24/08/2026
where does dropout source so many lesbians
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