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Rust dev, train fan, FreeBSD enthusiast and other stuff
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ferroussystems.bsky.social
🚀 Ferrocene 25.11.0 is out – and yes, it’s open source!
Ships our first IEC 61508 (SIL 2)-certified subset of core, enabling certifiable Rust for safety-critical systems across multiple architectures.

⚙️ + updates from Rust 1.89 & 1.90.

🔗 Release Notes: public-docs.ferrocene.dev/main/release...
A blue square featuring the Ferrous Systems logo with a sub headline saying: It's official! Headline: Core. Qualified. Body text: Ferrocene 25.11.0, the latest update to our qualified Rust toolchain, is now live. This release arrives with our first IEC 61508 (SIL 2) certified subset of the Rust core library (core)! Teams can now ship certifiable code for multiple architectures using a fully qualified Rust compiler and a significant portion of the core library certified.
December 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Unmute for sound • •• RARE: 1980's Garfield whistling tea kettle $150 RARE: 1980's Garfield whistling tea kettle $150
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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gardenbehindthe.world
i think all highways should be replaced with trains
November 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
erk.dev
Put together a new version of the 10 crates that are a part of the Twilight a set of Rust libraries for Discord: github.com/twilight-rs/...

#discordapi #rustlang
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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nhm-london.bsky.social
We’re so excited to share our exclusive Christmas jumper with you! 🦖🎄
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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rustnl.bsky.social
The Call for Proposals for RustWeek 2026 is now open!

If you’d like to give a talk, please submit your proposal via sessionize.com/rustweek-2026/

The CFP closes Dec 31.

#rustweek2026 #rustlang
Rust Week 2026: Call for Speakers
RustWeek is back!Two days of talks (Tue 19 and Wed 20) and one day with workshops (Mon 18),as well as social events and activities all week (Mon 19 - ...
sessionize.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
erk.dev
A Korean backstreet slightly run-down and many cars parked on the left side of the road. Various signs in Korean along the road. And a blue sky with fluffy clouds
October 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
erk.dev
Visiting Hwarangdae Railway Park
(화랑대 철도공원) and saw a tram from Hiroshima which is a bit away, apparently it was on use until 2017.
An old green amd beige tram going to "Hiroshima Docks"
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
erk.dev
From one of the authors most known for stories with a rather positive outlook on technology Jules Verne's "Paris in the 20th century" is a interesting book, though rather bleak which was probably the reason it was not published before 1994.
October 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
erk.dev
Seems like GoComics digital printer ran out of black ink again.
September 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
erk.dev
Goodbye Netherlands
Sad yellow smiley face waving goodbye
August 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
erk.dev
New Garfield format just dropped!

At least to my knowledge this is the first 2x3 Garfield comic
August 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
erk.dev
Hello Netherlands
a yellow smiley face with a hand waving in front of it
Alt: a yellow smiley face with a hand waving in front of it
media.tenor.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
erk.dev
New blog post: erk.dev/2025/08/21/c...
Making a small Clippy lint
In this post we go through the work of creating a small Clippy lint handling et. cetera in Rust.
erk.dev
August 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
erk.dev
I very much dislike facers, I really don't think it should be a thing
August 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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im.fckn.gay
damn, he's pretty fly for a white guy
gamerstavernshow.com Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · Aug 1
If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 1
It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”
August 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
erk.dev
Got a Glove80, so now it's time to forget and relearn how to type
A split keyboard which each half being contoured to fit the hand. Each half also have 6 keys for the thumb.
July 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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garfield.erk.dev
Garfield July 27, 1978 https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1978/07/27
July 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
erk.dev
Go follow my new bot that will post the daily Garfield comic strip every single day.
July 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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rustnl.bsky.social
Garfield's worst nightmare (or how a API difference caused a bad bug)
by Valdemar Erk at RustWeek 2025!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQd...

#rustlang #RustWeek
Garfield's worst nightmare (or how a API difference caused a bad bug) - Valdemar Erk
This talk will present a postmortem of the worst bug you can imagine happen for a bot which only feature is to post comics: The wrong comic being posted.To e...
www.youtube.com
June 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
erk.dev
The talk I did at #RustWeek about how a small difference in API's lead to a rather bad bug in my #Garfield bot is now live on YouTube, so you should all go and watch it. #rustlang

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQd...
Garfield's worst nightmare (or how a API difference caused a bad bug) - Valdemar Erk
YouTube video by RustNL
www.youtube.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
erk.dev
The Garfield comic for today seems to be missing the colour black somehow.

At time of writing this is how it looks on www.gocomics.com/garfield/202.... which is the official web syndicate of the comic.
A Garfield comic with three windows. In all of them garfield is missing the black outline, any text is also missing except for Jim Davis signature. First window: Garfield points up towards a empty thought bobble. Second window: Garfield eats a blueberry pie, in this window Garfield is missing his eyes which are not visible in the other windows. Third window: Garfield points up towards a empty thought bobble.
May 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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rust-lang.org
Live from the 10 Years of Rust celebration in Utrecht, Netherlands, we are very happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.87.0!

See the blog post and release notes for all the details!

blog.rust-lang.org/2025/05/15/R...
Many happy Rustaceans at the release party.
May 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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reduct.rs
Lack of Space on Laptop Not Deterring Developer From Taking Free Stickers at A Conference
May 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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thatoldbear.bsky.social
<image of a train arriving at a station in the rain> "TRAIN" <image of train driving through a blizzard> "TSNOW"
May 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM