After 16 years on Capitol Hill, Ada’s Technical Books to close and sibling Fuel Coffee shops up for sale A house home to a book shop on 15th Ave E for decades will need a fresh start and new owners are being sought for its sibling coffee shops. Ada’s Technical Books & Cafe will close in June…

Noooooo. Ada's Technical Books & Cafe was lovely. I will miss it. 😭

www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/04/afte...

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Yeah, actually, I enjoy this a lot. I enjoy trying to carve out tidier, more elegant abstractions in an existing project.

IDK, I sometimes think about it like trail maintenance. Someone else forged the path, but somebody's gotta cut back the overgrowth or maybe fix that little footbridge. I'm game.

A screenshot of Hex packages showing gleam_stdlib v1.0.0. with description "A standard library for the Gleam programming language". Above the screenshot there's a pink star smiling - Gleam's mascot, lucy

It's here! gleam_stdlib v1 released!

An affogato in a blue ceramic cup with vanilla ice cream melting into espresso, topped with a towering swirl of whipped cream.

Found a better spot for #AffogatoFriday.

Announcing Rust 1.95.0 | Rust Blog Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Rust 1.95.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀✨

This release includes cfg_select!{}, if-let guards in match,
Vec::push_mut, VecDeque::push_{front,back}_mut, std::hint::cold_path, and more!

Check out the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/04/16/R...

Good news! This domain is available! affogatofri.day 1 year at $19.35 then $38.98/year

What about a cheaper, less 🤖-infused option?

Google shoehorned Rust into Pixel 10 modem to make legacy code safer Cellular modems are complex black boxes of legacy code, but Google is making them safer with Rust.

That little DNS project I started about 10 years ago is making some news with Google! This is definitely because so many people have jumped in to help contribute here. Special call out to @djc.ochtman.nl who’s picked up a huge amount of slack for me in the last year.

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I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

The #rustconf 2026 schedule is here... and it's packed. 🦀

Community lightning talks. Rust Project updates. Breakout sessions. Keynotes. All on the main stage.

Check out what's new, then grab your ticket before prices go up.

bit.ly/4tDFTca #rustconf26

Ohey. Affogato?

Two scoops of vanilla ice cream inside a paper cup topped with espresso and a small chocolate cookie covered in assorted nuts.

@adamchalmers.com, apparently there's a cafe near my work that does affogato, so now we can have Affogato Friday in the PNW too.

Look, I still waffle back and forth on whether I tolerate or hate the mess of AI-generated code I see these days, but AI-generated music is a goddamned scourge. It'll be a cold day in hell when I accept AI-generated music. Fuck that noise.

⚠️ An active phishing attack is targeting crate owners by asking them to "confirm that your email address is still active". These messages are not from crates.io, and should be ignored. (We will never ask you to confirm that your e-mail address is still active.) ⚠️

Ooh, and this one's great as well. Thanks for this! 😁

Nice! That's a great lint. 😎

I'm a few days late, but I finally got to take the Link light rail across the floating bridge. Public transit rules. Trains are sick as hell! 🚈🤘😎

I've got my gripes with LLMs, but discovering that the "open-slopware" people have written off cURL because the core maintainer uses LLMs for code review and their suggested alternative is "an older version; wget?" is pretty damn funny to me. 🤪

I wonder if this implies a redesign as well or if they plan for a framework migration with no style changes. 🤔

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

This really resonated with me. I'm still begrudgingly using LLMs in my work. It's a mixed bag. I find it works best when I'm very hands-on, slow, and intentional. I don't have swarms of agents running around doing my job and I think that's for the best. mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0...

Monsters & More! A Nimble TTRPG Reprint & Expansion The RPG Monster Manual you've been waiting for! 200+ new GM-friendly monsters, loot, subclasses, adventures, and more!

Massive congratulations to Evan and Nimble Co. for the runaway success of the Nimble expansion!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/nim...

ECMAScript Euphoria! 🎉

We don't always post when a single proposal advances, but when we do, it's Temporal -> Stage 4.

Just days shy of 9 years from Stage 1, a herculean effort on the part of many champions, delegates, invited experts, and contributors, past and present. Thank you all! 🙌

Tony Hoare (1934-2026) Turing Award winner and former Oxford professor  Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. Hoare is famous for quicksort, ALGO...

blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony...

it was going to happen, death comes for us all. but man. what a legend

Actually, at least Zubat doesn't have Defense Curl... 😒

Announcing Rust 1.94.0 | Rust Blog Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Rust 1.94.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀✨

A few highlights are array_windows() and element_offset() on slices, Peekable::next_if_map(), LazyCell::get and friends, and the new `include` key in config.toml to include other toml files!

Check out the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/05/R...

Repel, but just for Zubat, out of spite.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

My wife and I stumbled upon it on our visit as well and had to go inside. Such a cool building!

Typo git reset as git rest and suddenly become enlightened.

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”The distinction between programmer and user is reinforced and maintained by a tech industry that benefits from a population rendered computationally passive. If we accept and adopt the role of less agency, we then make it harder for ourselves to come into more agency.”