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I guess it has been a weekend of writing iCal bots. Borrowing the code from my matrix ical bot, I wrote a fedimoose iCal bot, which is live at @meetings . Code is here https://github.com/anewton1998/ical-to-masto

Also written in #rust.

I created another #matrix bot. This one sends meeting reminders on a schedule and via chat command. It uses an iCal fetched via http for the event data.

https://github.com/anewton1998/matrix-bot-ical

Written in #rust

The Future of Magic

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

What comes first?

I couldn’t find a #matrix bot that did what I wanted in a simple way, so I wrote one in #rust.

https://github.com/anewton1998/matrix-bot-help

I have a theory that vibe coding is much more powerful with a very strongly-typed language like #rust because the tool calling knows really fast about a whole slew of issues that can be otherwise difficult to reason about.

@tech-news It’s not your crazy uncle who will be ruining your Thanksgiving…

RE: https://akk.novalug.org/objects/dce3dc07-566c-41d9-9364-9d4a917a621a

My new @novalug sticker! #linux #debian #laptop

For the NoVaLUG website I wanted two of the pages to pull content from an RSS feed, but for a static site there are few open source solutions. Out of frustration, I coded up this rss2jsonfeed CLI. It runs in a cron job and dumps a static JSON file in Akkoma's static directory. Mix in a little client-side JavaScript and bam!

https://github.com/anewton1998/rss2jsonfeed

#rust #javascript #rss #json

Building Automation controls company, Automated Logic, hit by fake VSCode extensions that install malware. https://checkmarx.com/zero-post/how-we-take-down-malicious-visual-studio-code-extensions/

I got my very first job working for this company, at the time a startup. They wrote software and designed and manufactured their hardware all in one building.

It's come to a point for NoVaLUG where we are outgrowing Signal, and while I personally disfavor Discord some people seem totally fine with the privacy nonsense of it.

Moving from Signal to something secure that supports threading, channels, etc... quickly the two front runners are non-federated Matrix and Zulip.

The big advantage of Matrix is the number of clients, but every single one of them seems clunky and the mental-model for Matrix doesn't seem to make sense when the server isn't federated.

Brodie Robertson’s video on the #rust #cloudflare thing… just in case anyone needs to fend off their angry Lunduke-following relatives over Thanksgiving dinner conversation.

https://youtu.be/vESkGUiiAB4?si=AsEtMLrlApeSZi19

It’s not #DNS
#azure #aws #cloudflare

"Google has disclosed that the company's continued adoption of the Rust programming language in Android has resulted in the number of memory safety vulnerabilities falling below 20% of total vulnerabilities for the first time.

"We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android's C and C++ code. But the biggest surprise was Rust's impact on software delivery," Google's Jeff Vander Stoep said. "With Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one."

The development comes a little over a year after the tech giant disclosed that its transition to Rust led to a decline in memory safety vulnerabilities from 223 in 2019 to less than 50 in 2024.

The company pointed out that Rust code requires fewer revisions, necessitating about 20% fewer revisions than their C++ counterparts, and has contributed to a decreased rollback rate, thereby improving overall development throughput."

https://thehackernews.com/2025/11/rust-adoption-drives-android-memory.html

#CyberSecurity #Google #Android #Rust #Programming #ProgrammingLanguages

Homebrew 5.0.0 https://brew.sh/2025/11/12/homebrew-5.0.0/ #Linux #macos

Upgraded to brew 5. Linux/ARM support now gives me access to Lazygit. Thank you #Homebrew team. #linux

After threatening to pave my daily driver and put #bluefin on it for a month, I finally did it this morning.

People keep asking me why. I don’t I have a great answer, but an OS that separates the dependency concerns of the apps from those of the OS should make for a much more stable upgrade path in the future.

#linux

I wonder how many of the people who worked over the 48hr period to get AWS back up recently are being laid off.

I am not trying to be mean, but there is a lesson about loyalty in this.