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Andrea Bergia

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This week I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at @rustlab.it. I wrote a short post on my #blog about my experience: andreabergia.com/blog/2025/11...

Thanks to the organizers and to everyone that attended my talk!

RustLab 2025

This week I’ve had the pleasure of attending and speaking at RustLab, a conference dedicated to Rust in Florence, Italy. It was only the second conference I’d ever attended, and the first I’d spoken a...

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November 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM

Andrea Bergia

@andreabergia.com

A new post is up on my #blog with a link of useful terminal tools and macOS applications I use daily. I hope you find at least some of them useful!

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Useful tools and apps

Today I wanna share with you a list of very useful tools and apps that I use regularly. I’m not going to include very popular things such as neovim, VS Code, Claude Code, or Obsidian, but I’ll try to ...

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October 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM

Andrea Bergia

@andreabergia.com

I've published a new issue of my Links List on my #blog. Hope you'll like the selection!

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Links list - 2025-09-19

Hello, and welcome to a new issue of Links list! More non-technical links than usual this time. Modern sort algorithms Link to heading A very interesting comparison between very data-tailored sort alg...

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September 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Andrea Bergia

@andreabergia.com

A new post is up on my #blog - I talk about some gotchas I've encountered while using pest.rs

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Pest gotchas

I have been using the Pest parser generator library for Rust recently in a couple of projects, and I want to talk a bit about a couple of things that weren’t too obvious for me. Pest has really good d...

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August 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM

Andrea Bergia

@andreabergia.com

I've published a new issue of my Links List on my #blog. Hope you'll find something interesting!

andreabergia.com/blog/2025/07...

Links list - 2025-07-16

Hello, and welcome to a new issue of Links list! Here are some interesting links I’ve collected recently. Bot or not? Link to heading An interesting collection of techniques used to detect whether an ...

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July 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM

Andrea Bergia

@andreabergia.com

A new post is up on my #blog - today I talk about some debugging tips for #intellij and other #jetbrains IDEs. I hope they can be helpful to someone! ☺️

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Debugging tricks for IntelliJ

I have been using IntelliJ Idea at work for a decade or so by now, and it’s been a reliable companion. JetBrains IDEs have a bit of a reputation for being slow, but their feature set is incredible: po...

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June 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM

Andrea Bergia

@andreabergia.com

I'm super happy to announce that I will be speaking at @rustlab.it in November!
My first ever conference talk 😱

rustlab.it/speakers/ber...

Andrea Bergia

RustLab is an international conference on Rust, held annually in Florence. It features renowned speakers, engaging workshops, and networking opportunities for developers and enthusiasts.

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June 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM

Andrea Bergia

@andreabergia.com

I've published the latest issue of my links list on my #blog - I hope you find the selection interesting!

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Links list - 2025-05-27

Hello, and welcome to a new issue of Links list! It’s been a while, so there are a lot of links this time! Hope you enjoy the selection. Pipelining operators Link to heading An interesting article abo...

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May 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM

Andrea Bergia

@andreabergia.com

I've tried to use C++ for a new hobby project and ended up giving up because I missed Rust too much. If you wanna read my rant about modern C++, you can find it on my #blog at andreabergia.com/blog/2025/05... 😂

Writing C++ in 2025

Spoiler: this is a rant. 😂 I have tried to write a small side project in modern C++ recently. I wanted to have a proper setup with modern tooling and practices, in part because I wanted to see what th...

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May 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM

Andrea Bergia

@andreabergia.com

I published a new post on my #blog where I explain how I have used a trampoline to implement function calls in my #jit compiler - go check it out at andreabergia.com/blog/2025/03...

Emjay - implementing function calls

In this post, I am following up on the explanation of my simple JIT compiler glorified calculator Emjay and I will show you how I implemented function calls. Why the complexity? Link to heading Imagin...

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March 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM