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TheZoq2 @thezoq2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One of the coolest things to happen in Spade yet 👀 @breakingtaps.com wrote and taped out a Transport Triggered Architecture processor from scratch in a month with 0 prior experience! www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6yt...
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I designed a microprocessor
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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 31/08/2026
Hey @1password.bsky.social, time to change course.
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1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker
1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 27/08/2026
The US State Department has designated A/I, a small Italian provider of open source infrastructure for political activists, as a global terrorist group. They will reach into our very homes to grab us — if we let them. www.state.gov/releases/off...
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Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State, in partnership with the Department of the Treasury, is announcing the designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Autistici/Inventati...
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Rust 1.98.0 out and time for me to go a bit wild with f32::algebraic_mul etc
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Dirkjan Ochtman @djc.ochtman.nl · 20/08/2026
PSA: arrayref 0.3.10 (maintained by droundy, 54M recent downloads) appears to contain malware. rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/chann...
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Public view of rust-lang | Zulip team chat
Browse the publicly accessible channels in rust-lang without logging in.
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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Today reminds me there was a UK journalist who died and received fulsome tributes from many others. It was considered the height of rudeness when some pointed out none of the tributes had mentioned he'd killed his wife. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ka...
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John Kay (journalist, born 1943) - Wikipedia
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I sometimes see people praise Bazel and I always wonder if I've fallen into a mirror universe. Buck2 I could understand but Bazel is by far the worst build system I've ever been forced into when trying to build Google projects
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
xd009642.github.io/2026/07/21/o... ohno 6 days later and I'm posting again. A one line change at work lead to an ~84% cloud cost saving and lead to me learning some slightly surprising things about how onnxruntime works. Plus a shoutout to rten an alternative in Rust that also solves the issue.
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Onnxruntime and the Pit of Failure
Software engineer doing stuff in Rust, recovering C++ programmer. Using this as a place to talk about my current projects including the Rust code coverage tool tarpaulin
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's been over a year since the last post but another installment on the streaming audio API series I've been working on about metrics. It's undergone like 3 rewrites due to overhauling some stuff after using it in anger at work xd009642.github.io/2026/07/15/s...
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Streaming Audio APIs - Adding Metrics
Software engineer doing stuff in Rust, recovering C++ programmer. Using this as a place to talk about my current projects including the Rust code coverage tool tarpaulin
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It's amazing how little effort some features take. Just updating object and adding the wasm feature and this PR for custom runners github.com/xd009642/tar... and I have wasm coverage working in tarpaulin. Though before release I'll be supporting target rustflags as tarpaulin ignores them currently
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Add in custom runner support by xd009642 · Pull Request #1866 · xd009642/tarpaulin
Only an llvm engine feature for now as ptrace might get confused by the first process not being the test process and following execs adds extra faff. This'll get the runner from the cargo confi...
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 23/06/2026
HELP WANTED: are you in the US (or just outside the EU)? do you have iOS/iPadOS 27 DB2? are you able to do this: go to Keyboard settings > Dictation and Toggle on “Advanced Dictation Preview” does that option exist for you?
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Broke a personal target directory size record with 363GB... Duckdb why do you do this to me
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9lm... Finally watched it. Golden moment in the Q&A "Are you basically trying to tell us that for any project with current tools we can't really trust code coverage?" "that's right" "that's quite a problem" Well yes and no (cont)
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Precise, consistent, and reliable code coverage (Jynn Nelson at RustWeek)
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/06/2026
People will say it's "Tech Week" here in NYC. Well, any event run by Andreessen Horowitz is illegitimate, because the NYC tech community has values, and one of its most fundamental is its humanity. They have forfeited theirs.
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
aws-smithy-http-client fixing all of the dependencies to specific versions is pretty anti-social tbh. What do you mean I can't silence the high-severity advisory because it's locked rustls-webpki to a specific patch version
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Seeing more rustweek posts today and feeling the fomo. Still it means there's a bunch of cool talks to watch in my immediate future. Including jyn's code coverage talk that shouts out my rice farming and probably some coverage stuff I did as well
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Probably the best explanation of an underexplored (imo) niche of ML www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDxt...
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The Most Counterintuitive Way to Build a Brain
YouTube video by Artem Kirsanov
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TheZoq2 @thezoq2.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
fransskarman.com/im_not_using... All of my colleagues are using AI while I'm not. It feels like I'm missing out so I decided to sit down and write down my thoughts on why I'm so resistant to it. In the end, I'm very happy with what I wrote so I put it on my blog
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
First time posting for #aprilcools this is about my time rice farming in Japan: xd009642.github.io/2026/04/01/M...
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My Experience As A Rice Farmer
I’ve been inspired to write something for April Cools Club, and what fits better from my normal content than my experience rice farming in rural Japan!
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Seems delve the AI SOC-2 compliance service is a big scam. Not too surprising I was asked at work to evaluate them and ended up advising we don't purchase it. They missed one sales call and rescheduled and just showed us their web UI and namedropped existing customers substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Delve - Fake Compliance as a Service - Part I
How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Right now Github's only hope of 3 9s of uptime is if they hit 89.99%
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
xd009642.github.io/2026/02/26/a... Or using tries to avoid rerunning tests for projects that aren't touched by changes.
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Automatically Running Cargo On Workspace Changes
Given a Rust project using workspaces with potentially a large amount of packages how can we make it quicker to run tests or other tooling when the project changes. Using build systems like Bazel and ...
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Obligatory year in review post half-technical half not xd009642.github.io/2026/01/03/2...
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2025 In Review
I did one last year so it’s probably time for another year in review. It’ll be mentioned more in the non-technology section but I did spend 6 months in Japan and that will be a theme in why I haven’t ...
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Revisiting the notes on an in-progress project, and it reminds me why I dislike implementing maths papers sometimes. It should be required to provide code if you use "simple" > "simple cepstral smoothing" is a loaded term. Maybe the authors should elaborate on what they consider simple smoothing.
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Predrag Gruevski @predr.ag · 30/11/2025
On behalf of the cargo-semver-checks project, it's my pleasure to recognize @jyn.dev's irreplaceable and tireless work in the #rustlang community 🦀 I'll share just one anecdote; you can click on the GitHub Sponsors link at the end of the thread to see more 🧵
GitHub Sponsors email stating: "You sponsored @jyn514! Sponsorship amount: $1000 one time"
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Sometimes I see a project and I'm like "damn I wish they did a manufacturing run I'd buy that". Well here's one from this week: github.com/cdg66/ExAce
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GitHub - cdg66/ExAce: Framework ExpansionFPGA acceleration module
Framework ExpansionFPGA acceleration module . Contribute to cdg66/ExAce development by creating an account on GitHub.
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
A new post this time musing of the impacts of libstd in rust being instrumented for code coverage and combining that with crater: xd009642.github.io/2025/11/15/I...
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Ideas Of Crater And Coverage
Recently I’ve been doing tackling some issues in my open source projects related to Ferrous System’s work to get code coverage for libcore - the Rust core library. Because of this I’ve been talking to...
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Having 3 blog posts "almost done" for a while and finally getting one out of the door feels somewhat rewarding. Executive function hasn't completely failed me
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
New blogpost, making CLI tools with Trustfall! Much thanks to @predr.ag for advice/support when writing this! xd009642.github.io/2025/08/18/M...
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Making Cli Tools With Trustfall
For those who aren’t aware, Trustfall is a pretty cool tool. From the repo about section it says:
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Wechat and now line. Why is every Asian chat app appalling. Unable to link a foreign number to my account and I end up banned by an automated system as a result. This is ignoring the UI design being very unfamiliar, it's just impossible to use as a foreigner
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Made an inaturalist account to identify more animals I see while rice farming. Quite happy that some users already identified some of the animals. Hopefully, I'll managed to get pics of dragonflies and birds of prey - but they've been too fast so far. My account: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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Observations
Observations by Daniel McKenna
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Accepted I can't and won't do everything that pops into my head and making an open project list of things I've found myself wanting (all in rust so far) that don't yet exist: github.com/xd009642/pro...
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GitHub - xd009642/project-list: A list of projects I'd like to see (and may one day work on if nothing else fills the void.
A list of projects I'd like to see (and may one day work on if nothing else fills the void. - xd009642/project-list
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James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 17/06/2025
Had a gig wrap up a little earlier than expected, I should have availability starting July or so. As always: if you need help with Embedded, Rust, or similar things, shoot me a message! If you're a user of postcard, p-rpc, or are interested in the more experimental new ergot: shoot me a message!
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Part 2 in making tarpaulin faster: xd009642.github.io/2025/05/20/T...
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Tarpaulins Week Of Speed Pt2
You might want to read the previous post. This post is going to be much the same stuff, while skipping going over things I talked about before. And with some changes in approach, and different tools t...
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Two dramatic speedups in a week. Better blog about it xd009642.github.io/2025/05/08/T...
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Tarpaulins Week Of Speed
This week I’ve dropped two cargo-tarpaulin releases, both of which have significant speed-ups for LLVM coverage reporting. When I say significant, the first one gave me a ~80% speedup on a benchmark, ...
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
And 2 days later another release with big speedups. This time less being an idiot but using memoization to avoid searching a list for the right profile entry. For projects that bring in a lot of coverage counters this will result in big speedups (polars gets 20x faster) github.com/xd009642/tar...
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Release 0.32.5 · xd009642/tarpaulin
Changed Change some types so x86 starts working properly Performance improvements for llvm profraw report generation via llvm-profparsers#48
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Cargo-tarpaulin 0.32.4 released with a ~80% speedup of LLVM coverage report processing. Like any speedup that large it's mainly past me doing something dumb than me being smart. github.com/xd009642/tar...
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Release 0.32.4 · xd009642/tarpaulin
Changed Performance improvements for llvm profraw report generation
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
New project, a rust mocking library for websockets. See the announcement post here: xd009642.github.io/2025/03/03/a...
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Announcing Wiremocket: Wiremock For Websockets
This is an announcement blogpost for wiremocket a wiremock influenced library for mocking websocket servers.
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I am once again in a situation where I want something like IBM Rational DOORS (Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System) but good. Maybe this time I'll code something up...
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
And the next part of the streaming audio API blog series: the axum server code (1/3)! xd009642.github.io/2025/01/20/s...
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Streaming Audio Apis: The Axum Server
All the code can be found on this branch if you look at main you’ll see future post content there!
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
New small type of post, going through contributing a small PR to a project I use: xd009642.github.io/2025/01/15/a...
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Adding A New Fake To The Fake Crate
This post is going to go through my process of PRing something to the fake crate. I’d done it before in a different part of the crate so assumed this would be easy but it took me a bit more time than ...
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xd009642 @xd009642.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
New social media account and with it a year in review post for 2024! xd009642.github.io/2025/01/06/2...
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2024 In Review
I feel like I’ve managed to do quite a lot this year and also have a lot planned. With that in mind why not reflect a bit on what was planned, done and what I’m going to be doing.
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