It's almost like I was there with them 🥹

It's nearly Christmas and something terrible has happened... www.mscroggs.co.uk/blog/120

A cheat sheet of Cargo plugins to improve your day as a #rustlang developer. More detailed notes and a PDF version is available through the link in the QR code.

When X-rays are incident upon a crystal, some of their energy is reflected from the lattice planes. Certain angles of incidence will lead to the observation of diffraction peaks due to constructive interference between the reflected wavefronts.

#optics #microscopy

youtu.be/FZ4gilAe7x0

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Fun and interesting article on the history of "deliberately sacrificial conductor[s]" (aka fuses):
c.digikey.com/dc/hIEerrlOP...

Reminded me of the fuse discussion in episode "How is software safety certified?" of @sdr-podcast.com

Been exploring Jujutsu (github.com/jj-vcs/jj) for my daily usage. See for yourself:

Git:
1. I screw up my repo again
2. Go to ohshitgit.com
3. Hopefully find a solution to my problem
4. Run the command that I copy and cross my fingers...

Jujutsu:
1. I screw up my repo again
2. `jj undo`

InterpN is Scientific Computing in Rust's crate of the month, and featured in This Week in Rust! Check out the writeup to see how it pulls off an up to 200x speedup over SciPy's already-quite-good interpolation methods!

Available via Python bindings and as a (no_std!) Rust crate.

jlogan.dev/blog/

November issue of the Scientific Computing in Rust newsletter is out and available [here](scientificcomputing.rs/monthly/2025...).
Crate of the month is [InterpN](crates.io/crates/interpn) by @ponderingpothos.bsky.social

Enjoy!