King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Crumbling Castle (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

Protip: stop reading new the news and listen to gizz instead

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Excited to pop over the pond to talk about Rust & Java in just over a month @devoxx.uk !

There's nothing like the smell of `docker system prune` in the morning

It reflects well on a society when folks can unironically write songs like “Rasputin”

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

The Anthropic writeup of the study is also surprisingly and refreshingly even handed

Had a chuckle, but honestly for folk who haven’t already learnt how to Build Stuff Goodly, this is a bit terrifying - the obligation to use the tools to _go fast_, without ever building a the muscles to properly supervise them

Introducing Geoff A boring personal assistant for boring people

Clawdbot too powerful/terrifying for you? Introducing Geoff - a boring alternative - built _just for me_. Maybe all this AI vibe coding furor can usher back in the dream of PERSONAL computing - tools built by regular folk to scratch their own, particular itches.

All Along the Calltower An adventure of discovery into the C calling conventions

It’s time for another blog on #systems engineering - this time about calling conventions - how do compilers emit machine code that let functions call each other, when the underlying CPU architecture has no concept of functions? Not sooo useful for building REST APIs, but nonetheless interesting :)

I switched a bunch of stuff I was running in the #homelab from k3s to plain old docker-compose, and dropped from 20% idle CPU usage to < 4%. CPU now spending about 80% of of its time in C7!

I don't _need_ k8s for this stuff, and power is expensive, so ....

Crafting Lambda Functions in Rust - eBook by Luciano Mammino and James Eastham A practical guide on how to build efficient, sustainable, cost-effective serverless AWS solutions with the Rust programming language.

Thrilled to announce chapter 09 of the Rust Lambda book.

In this one, we cover all things observability. If you're struggling to really understand your serverless applications, this one's the one for you.

@loige.co 👀

#serverless #rust #rustlang

rust-lambda.com

James Eastham and my latest video on software dev is up! We try to distill down when it makes sense and when not to microservice, hopefully without alienating too many folks. Have a listen and let us know what you think!

Astro and cloudflare pages ! Pretty happy.

Yup

Incy Wincy Spider is Sisyphus for kids

Anna’s Archive backing up all of Spotify is like a feel good version of the GenAI folks stealing everyone’s copyrighted content to train their models

The Incredible Power of API First Design YouTube video by Datadog Community

@jameseastham.co.uk and I are back again talking about software engineering! This time, we dive into API-first design - what it's good for, and how you can get started with it.

Let us know what you think!

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Scott Ends Telemark Boot Production, Leaving Free-Heel Skiers Scratching Their Heads The long quiet carrier of the legendary Garmont flame is done with boots, including free-heel options, just as the sport appears to rise again.

Not sure anyone I know on here cares, but it brings me great sadness that Scott aren't producing tele boots anymore

Gross

Wot?

US State Department abolishing use of "Calibri" in documents because it is quote too diverse end quote is the most absurdly The Onion news I have read this year, and that is saying something

This time they said “this wouldn’t have happened if we used Rust instead of lua!”. I am satisfied.

#cloudflare down again? Hopefully wont blame rust this time 🥹

The season of having my heart continuously broken by the snow forecast is upon us

Cool! This wording with _friction_ is exactly how my internal monologue goes. Especially with e.g. learning things - without actual friction - without struggle (cuz you're outsourcing your brain) - you're not growing.

I’d love to see some big moves to tangled ! Decentralized identity feels important here

GitHub - DataDog/dd-trace-rs: Datadog APM for Rust Datadog APM for Rust. Contribute to DataDog/dd-trace-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Congrats to our APM team on the preview release of dd-trace-rs! Now we have a nice opinionated datadog tracer for Rust folks 🥰

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Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/ ❤️

Zig’s moving to codeberg from github because of entshitification ! Proverbial canary ?

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This Process Will Change How You Think About Designing Your Software YouTube video by Datadog Community

@jameseastham.co.uk and I have released the inaugural _second episode_ (coughs loudly) of our video series on modern software development - this time on James' favourite thing, **Event Storming** - a great tool to dive into a domain you're about to build something in!

Target announces partnership with OpenAI as it aims to reverse sales slump Target looks to get ahead in the AI retail race, announcing an integration with ChatGPT alongside another quarter of disappointing results on Wednesday.

So ... the top is in?