In May, I attended RustWeek in Utrecht. This was my first time at a conference outside of iOS/Swift development, and except for try! Swift Tokyo , it was the biggest conference I’ve been to. Someone said there were around 800 attendees, which sounds plausible. The conference had three parallel talk tracks, and you could easily switch tracks between each talk. Everything ran impressively on…
I love reading, and I’m so pleased I’ve made it more of a habit in recent years. In 2025, I read 50% more books than in 2024, which was itself way up on previous years. This post follows a similar format to my 2024 books retrospective : I’ll first look at trends related to my reading, and then share some picks. Continuing trends I didn’t change direction, but I kept the trajectory I was on in…
In 2024, I read about as many books as in the three preceding years combined. This is a post in two parts. The first part is about trends in my reading habits that helped me to read so much more and a complaint about big companies. Jump ahead if you just want to check out my favourite books from last year. Reading trends What helped me settle into a habit of reading such that I tripled the number…