I see a lot of keyboard warriors out there, but few with the true courage to do something truly difficult. If you want to do more than just larp as the main character of your own movie, get out there and do something truly challenging... like writing a Rust macro.

#rust

This old meme has been going around for years, but in the aftermath of the AWS outage there has been some pushback on-line about it. And that's a good thing, because it is likely that people new to the industry are not in on the joke and might take the meme more literally.

This meme was never about DNS being unreliable, but about the nature of troubleshooting issues in that DNS is so reliable many of us assume we have set it up correctly and overlook our mistakes with DNS when looking for root causes.

It is unfortunate, but way too many people function off of received opinion, and AI is likely making that worse. FWIW, I did once work with an operations manager who insisted we hardcode IP addresses because DNS used UDP and UDP was "unreliable".

#dns #memes #receivedopinion

Look what just arrived… @paulhoffman

me: wants to wake up early so I can enjoy some quiet time
aws: sure
me: no not like that

Could come in handy

Join the Northern Virginia Linux Users Group (NovaLug) on Saturday, 18 October for our monthly in-person meeting. This months keynote is Gaming on Linux: https://novalug.org/presentations/2025-october-18/

Would SIP-over-QUIC be pronounced "sock"?

#ietf

# Qualcomm Acquires Arduino

Qualcomm’s Latest AI Play: Turning Maker Dreams into Shareholder Value « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!

https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/10/07/qualcomms-latest-ai-play-turning-maker-dreams-into-shareholder-value/

#arduino #technewsyoucanuse

If I didn't have a billion things to do today, I'd be paving my NixOS system for Bluefin.

Brilliant!

#programming vs. #management

We have a lot of really cool CLI tools these days, but few have changed my workflow in such a way as Atuin. No there is Atuin desktop.

https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-desktop-open-source/

#cli #linux

Boa 0.18 has just been released!

Boa is a #javascript engine written in #rustlang. It now passes 85% of the official ECMAScript suite, and it's much more performant!

Check the full release post here:

https://boajs.dev/blog/2024/03/07/boa-release-18

/cc @rust @thisweekinrust

AI slows down experienced open-source developers by 19%. That indicates that AI is falling short in software development. Instead of taking over boring and pointless tasks, we are hindering our most expensive developers from doing their creative and engineering work.
#AI #opensource
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwerner/2025/09/28/ai-safety-group-finds-agentic-tools-slow-down-open-source-devs/

Interesting... Microsoft's #rust guidelines.

https://microsoft.github.io/rust-guidelines/guidelines/index.html

For anyone in need of writing tests that compare long textual output, this is a game changer: goldenfile. It makes writing and maintaining these types of tests much easier.

#rust

https://crates.io/crates/goldenfile

It is strange how the EU advocates for open-source, but then is unwilling to put its money where its mouth is.
#opensource #politics
https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-budget-open-source

@Mer__edith about Signal and potential Chat Control in the EU:
“We would continue to operate as long as we could. Similar to how we do in Iran, similar to how we’ve done in response to being blocked in Russia, working with our community to set up proxies so that people who are within these regions have access to Signal. ”
Think about that! They might be forced to do in the EU what they did in Russia and Iran. https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-09-14/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-in-technology-its-way-too-easy-for-marketing-to-replace-substance-thats-whats-happened-with-telegram.html

Happy 10 year anniversary to this tweet! Has memory safety in C++ been solved yet?

https://x.com/CppCon/status/646386191617626112

The old web was decentralized:

- Newsgroups
- Personal Websites
- Bulletin board
- Email as a service, not a platform
- Internet relay chat (IRC)
- Early blogs

Then corporations arrived with money and lock-in, turning the internet into centralized ad farms (Meta, X, TikTok). Users became consumers, trapped in algorithms, tracking, and enshittification. Revenue more important than people.
The Fediverse is a way back: no ads, no algorithms, no dark patterns. People first. A web worth reclaiming. And open source is the engine of this transformation.
Take back the web. Decentralize again 💪 Bring people to the Fediverse, promote open source, build decentralized and federated services.
#takebacktheweb #decentralized #fediverse #stopBigTech #opensource #degoogle #unplugtrump