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You can now watch Ruben's FOSDEM talk:
The Network Time Protocol is generally used completely unprotected, much like the web was before HTTPS. At FOSDEM 2026, Ruben explained how we aim to push adoption of secure time (NTS) using pools of NTS servers.

Video and slides: buff.ly/O4sfBKg

#fosdem2026 #opensource #timesynchronization
February 3, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Max is headed to FOSDEM! Catch his and Stijn's talk 'Rust Meets the Grid: Building OpenLEADR-rs for Real-World Demand Response' on Sat 31 Jan at 13.40 in room AW1.126!

fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

@elaad.nl
@fosdem.org

#opensource #rustlang #fosdem
January 29, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Ruben will be at FOSDEM this weekend!
Ruben is headed to FOSDEM! Catch his talk 'Securing time with NTS' on Sun 1 Feb at 13.20 in room H.2215 (Ferrer)!

fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

@fosdem.org

#opensource #rustlang #fosdem
January 28, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Zlib-rs is now feature-complete! @trifectatech.bsky.social have released v0.6: the first version with a stable and complete API.

Folkert wrote the details in this blog post: buff.ly/7HjKqO6

#rustlang
zlib-rs: a stable API and 30M downloads - Trifecta Tech Foundation
Stable API
trifectatech.org
January 27, 2026 at 11:12 AM
There is a new European Mail Transfer Agent: Remails. It's on GitHub, written in Rust, and hosted in Europe.

Read Max and Michiel's blog on how we built Remails from a single binary proof-of-concept to a highly available, scalable cloud application: buff.ly/NdwGof1

#rustlang #digitalsovereignty
How we built Remails: a European Mail Transfer Agent - Blog - Tweede golf
Increasingly more organizations are reviewing their dependencies on foreign software and IT services from countries like the US. One broad necessity for many organizations is sending automated ema ...
tweedegolf.nl
January 15, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Marc was invited to the 2025 Ubuntu Summit to talk, on behalf of Trifecta Tech Foundation, about the design choices that shaped sudo-rs. Watch the talk here: buff.ly/Zu7qMjd...

@trifectatech.bsky.social

#rustlang
Video: sudo-rs and beyond (Ubuntu Summit 25.10) - Blog - Tweede golf
After sudo-rs was included in the 25.10 release of Ubuntu, Marc was invited to the Ubuntu Summit to talk about the design choices that shaped sudo-rs. You can now watch the recording of the talk.
tweedegolf.nl
January 14, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Tweede golf in 2025 was… over 80% #opensource!

As a service provider working across the commercial, government, and non-profit sectors, we are extremely proud (and honestly pretty amazed) that 86% of our code written in 2025 was open-source!

Thanks to our clients and funders!

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December 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
If you are a cybersecurity policymaker in Europe, or know someone who is, please reach out to @hugovandepol.bsky.social!
The joint statement “Improving Europe's cybersecurity posture through memory safety”, has now been published: trifectatech.org/blog/calling...

It calls for stronger #MemorySafety incentives in EU cybersecurity policies.

Thanks to all supporters and contributors!

#security
Calling for memory safety incentives in EU cybersecurity policies - Trifecta Tech Foundation
trifectatech.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
How do you test code that a CI machine won't run? To support avx-512 SIMD instructions in @trifectatech.bsky.social's zlib-rs, Folkert taught Miri how to emulate them.

buff.ly/SXaVPTn

#rustlang
Emulating avx-512 intrinsics in Miri - Blog - Tweede golf
Recently we've started work on using more avx512 features in zlib-rs. The avx512 family of target features provides SIMD intrinsics that use 512-bit vectors (double the size of avx2, which uses 2 ...
tweedegolf.nl
December 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Reposted by Tweede golf
Our organizing partner @tweedegolf.bsky.social is running the RustWeek Industry Track again! The first speaker is @lorilorusso.bsky.social - 
Director of Outreach - Rust Foundation.

Info & tickets:
2026.rustweek.org

Also want to speak at RustWeek? Our CFP is open!

#rustlang #rustweek2026
December 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
How do Merkle Tree Certificates help against the threat of Quantum computers to internet security? Maximilian Pohl explains MTCs, discusses his experience implementing an early @ietf.org draft, and @cloudflare.social's and Google Security's current experiments.
A quick intro to Merkle Tree Certificates - Blog - Tweede golf
Many of us have heard about quantum computers and that they are a threat to our internet security and privacy. Nobody can tell, though, how long it will still take until quantum computers are actu ...
buff.ly
December 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
**Announcing** ROCSYS will be Expert Partner of the RustWeek Industry Track in 2026. Martin Kooij will guide the conversation about software life cycle costs!
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
@cloudflare.social wrote a blog post on Merkle Tree Certificates. It includes Max' work: an experimental implementation in Rust, and his thesis "Implementation and Analysis of Merkle Tree Certificates for PostQuantum Secure Authentication in TLS".

Read it here: bit.ly/48MijCX

#rustlang #security
Keeping the Internet fast and secure- introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
Cloudflare is launching an experiment with Chrome to evaluate fast, scalable, and quantum-ready Merkle Tree Certificates, all without degrading performance or changing WebPKI trust relationships.
bit.ly
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Watch Marc's talk at the Ubuntu Summit in London for Trifecta Tech Foundation, "Sudo-rs and beyond": buff.ly/NZCL2R4

@canonicalltd.bsky.social
@trifectatech.bsky.social

#rust #rustlang #ubuntu
Sudo-rs and beyond
buff.ly
October 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Folkert has become a co-maintainer of rust-lang/stdarch, which defines vendor-specific APIs that are used by the Rust standard library and Rust users writing explicit SIMD code.

In this blog, Folkert explains how they try to reduce the maintenance burden: buff.ly/X0F6yei

#rustlang #simd
Fixing rust-lang stdarch issues in LLVM - Blog - Tweede golf
A couple of months ago I became a co-maintainer of rust-lang/stdarch, which defines vendor-specific APIs that are used by the Rust standard library and Rust users writing explicit SIMD code.
tweedegolf.nl
October 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Hugo and Marc were invited to speak at ONE Conference earlier this month. Their talk was titled 'You're not secure by design, if you're not memory safe!'

Recap and slides here: tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/195/...

@hugovandepol.bsky.social

#memorysafety #security #rustlang #ONEconference
Talk about memory safety at ONE Conference - Blog - Tweede golf
Earlier this month Marc and I had the opportunity to deliver a talk at ONE Conference in The Hague, The Netherlands, on a topic that’s near to our hearts: memory safety. Below we share some contex ...
tweedegolf.nl
October 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Marc wrote an article; not just any article, but the sudo-rs FAQ!
October 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The video of Hugo van de Pol and Ton Smets' talk 'Rust Meets the Grid: Building openleadr-rs for Real-World Demand Response' at LF Energy Summit is here! Watch it or read a recap of the talk here: buff.ly/snCvMaJ

@hugovandepol.bsky.social
@elaad.nl

#rustlang #energy #opensource #lfenergysummit
Rust Meets the Grid: Building openleadr-rs for Real-World Demand Response - Blog - Tweede golf
On Thursday 11 September 2025, I attended the LF Energy Summit in Aachen, Germany, where I gave the talk ‘Rust Meets the Grid: Building openleadr-rs for Real-World Demand Response’, together with ...
tweedegolf.nl
October 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Marc and Hugo are at ONE Conference in The Hague today! This afternoon, they will give their talk 'You're not secure by design, if you're not memory safe!'.

@hugovandepol.bsky.social

#cybersecurity #memorysafety #ONE2025
October 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
"You're not secure by design, if you're not memory safe!" Hugo van de Pol and Marc Schoolderman will present this talk at ONE Conference in The Hague on 1 Oct 2025.

buff.ly/nKw3uQ9

@hugovandepol.bsky.social

#cybersecurity #memorysafety
September 23, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Hugo attended and presented openleadr-rs at the LF Energy Summit 2025 in Aachen with Ton Smets form ElaadNL. Read the blog (talk slides, a recap, and a look ahead) here: buff.ly/NIUy4qN

@hugovandepol.bsky.social
@elaad.nl

#rustlang #energy #opensource #lfenergysummit
Rust Meets the Grid: Building openleadr-rs for Real-World Demand Response - Blog - Tweede golf
On Thursday 11 September 2025, I attended the LF Energy Summit in Aachen, Germany, where I gave the talk ‘Rust Meets the Grid: Building openleadr-rs for Real-World Demand Response’, together with ...
buff.ly
September 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Our intern Ebbe may just have sped up your debug journey for async Embedded Rust. We're impressed! Read about the Proof of Concept here: buff.ly/TfNFCp3

Feedback and contributions are appreciated, so give inspect-embassy a go!

@ebbdrop.bsky.social

#rustlang #embeddedrust #debugging
Embedded async debugging and inspect-embassy - Blog - Tweede golf
As part of my internship at Tweede golf this summer I was tasked with improving the async debugging experience for embedded development. This work resulted in a prototype async debugger for embass ...
tweedegolf.nl
September 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Update on Folkert and Bjorn's work for Trifecta Tech Foundation, improving state machine code generation in the Rust compiler:
Blog post by Folkert: How can we make Rust programs that use state machines even faster?

Trifecta Tech aims to create safe and robust infrastructure software, that's why we're dedicated to making Rust the go-to for performance-critical components like zlib&zstd.

trifectatech.org/blog/improvi...
Improving state machine code generation - Trifecta Tech Foundation
Over the past couple of months, Björn and I have been working on improving state machine code generation in the rust compiler, a rust project goal for 2025H1. In late June, PR 138780 was merged,…
trifectatech.org
September 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
"Rust Meets the Grid: Building Openleadr-rs for Real-World Demand Response" is Hugo's talk at the LF Energy Summit this Thursday in Aachen, with Ton Smets from @elaad.nl.

Curious about topic? Read Hugo's blog: buff.ly/GfmVDZI

@hugovandepol.bsky.social

#opensource #energytransition #rustlang
OpenLEADR 3.0: Initial Traction and Future Plans - Blog - Tweede golf
Last November, we announced that our open-source Rust implementation of the latest version of the Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) standard had officially joined the Linux Energy Foundatio ...
tweedegolf.nl
September 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM