Published 2 new libraries to aid #Zig ⚡️adoption in #CloudNative ecosystem:
1. yaml.zig: github.com/inge4pres/ya...
YAML 1.2.2 parser, needed in k8s/OTel land to parse all sorts of configurations
2. k8s.zig: github.com/inge4pres/k8...
Very barebone #kubernetes client
Posts by Francesco Gualazzi
Thrilled to announce that the first release of the #Zig ⚡ #OpenTelemetry SDK is out! 🚀
github.com/zig-o11y/ope...
Use it, file bugs and share feedback on the GitHub repo!
New blog post is out: "#Zig is great for Observability"
4pr.es/qH_EoHNh
My thesis: it is time for O11y ecosystem to consider Zig as relevant due to its characteristics.
Shameless plug at the end of the post: we're building an #OpenTelemetry SDK for Zig, github.com/zig-o11y/ope...
Check it out!
Never in the history of programming it’s been so important to know when to use Shift+Enter.
#software #engineering #ai
We have also published the final session video! (In Italian)
youtu.be/K6ULgtdj1Yg?...
Last saturday I went to ZigDay, an entire day dedicated to learning/experimenting with Zig!!
I wrote a short journal here -> marcobacis.dev/blog/2025-se...
Thanks to Coding Bunker (www.codingbunker.it) and in particular to @inge.4pr.es , @omissis.dev and @kristoff.it, for the day!
Profile.
I am not an #AI expert, but I stumbled on this paper and it seems like a nice breakthrough.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21734
Essentially, throwing away the current state of the art based on transformers and modeling a different type of interaction between the layers of the NN.
Pretty interesting 👌🏻
#AWS just killed my startup idea with this preview launch of S3 Vector
aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in...
Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors: First cloud storage with native vector support at scale
#neovim Development News
The 0.12 version will start to use Zig language to build Neovim itself.
This should improve overall Neovim development and should not have visible effect on users.
Thanks, @bfredl.bsky.social!
PRs (so far):
- github.com/neovim/neovi...
- github.com/neovim/neovi...
This is a great interview. Kent Beck talks to @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com about how he's having more fun programming now with AI genies than he's had in ages. Also: the birth of Extreme Programming.
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tdd-ai-age...
Second public contribution to #opentelemetry #Zig SDK just landed!
Thanks to Hendrik Nieladaer for fixing a bug 🙏
github.com/zig-o11y/ope...
Memory Safety Features in #Zig
「 This approach ensures that errors cannot be accidentally ignored. Every error must be explicitly handled or propagated, which dramatically reduces the likelihood of unhandled error conditions causing memory corruption 」
gencmurat.com/en/posts/mem...
Seems like the ideal place with the perfect weather to host heat-generating machines.
#sustainabilty
Ian Lance Taylor deserves an award for the most patient person in Open Source.
He also has an amazing ability to translate the clarity of his thinking into the written word.
He has had such impact on the way people create software.
I really hope he continues to contribute to Go.
#Zig std library find of the day: PriorityQueue ⚡️
github.com/ziglang/zig/...
This is a type-generic, ordered queue that allows polling the most recent item first.
It has an Iterator too! 👍
Very handy to serialize operations.
For those interested in using jj to contribute to Go, please check out @prattmic.com's blog post below.
It's not a general jj tutorial, but will help you with the Gerrit specific pieces.
pratt.im/notes/jj-go-...
I have two books here, on high dimensional statistics and high dimensional probability.
I am specifically looking for a book that treats intuition around high-dimensional geometry, as I have a lot of high-dimensional polytopes to reason about. Can anyone recommend anything?
"Libreboot is a free and open-source BIOS/UEFI firmware based on Coreboot, designed to replace proprietary ones on specific Intel/AMD x86 and ARM-based motherboards"
linuxiac.com/libreboot-25...
The way I understood it is that the array is new memory that gets reserved immediately, and if that fails we fall back to an existing allocator, with the ability to know if we did.
I used it for testing in a memory-constrained env.
TIL that in #Zig std lib there's a convenient std.heap.stackFallBack function, building an allocator that is backed by a fixed array of memory or falling back to a second allocator when the array allocation fails.
Sweeeeet 🧠
ziglang.org/documentatio...
I have recently use Pixlr to edit an AI-generated image, and I have to say it's a good service for the price
pixlr.com/it/editor/
I naively think 100% of developers, but not 100% of their time they stick to it.
External pressure to deliver, deadlines, and other factors are fading the good practices.
If you want to learn and practice #Zig, meet other ziglers ⚡ and build software you can love, you can't miss the Zig Day event we've set up in Milan for May 17th.
zig.day/europe/milan...
Hiring announcement graphic listing open roles: Field Sales, Product Assurance, Product Infrastructure, Software Solutions, and Support Engineering.
Join the team that's changing computing forever! oxide.computer/careers
Il primo Zig Day di Milano si terra' il 17 Maggio vicino a Porta Garibaldi.
L'evento consiste in una giornata intera dedicata alla programmazione collaborativa
(quindi non aspettatevi talk), come descritto qui: kristoff.it/blog/zig-day/
Invito: www.meetup.com/it-IT/coding...
Someone is profiting from the massive market sell off caused by US tariffs.
Someone surely knew the effect they would cause to #stocks, and I wish investigations will be done on politicians and their acolytes.
Glad you liked it!
It was difficult to get it up and running
Creating and managing #Kubernetes clusters on latest AWS EKS is a nightmare 😒
Addons crashing, confusing node configurations, over-complicated IAM model for workloads.
Trivial to do better, not surprised GKE is gaining a lot of market shares.
Interesting! TIL
Seems like Finnish can be amazing trumpet players then!
It’s definitely not common, requires a lot of training if you’re not used to.