Sovereign Tech Fellowship for Rust maintenance (June-July 2026 report)

For the past few years, I was sponsored by Futurewei to work on upstream Rust. It was great to have the freedom to work on anything I wanted in Rust, be it new features, performance optimizations, bot/tooling/CI improvements or even non-technical work, such as mentoring, governance, surveys or preparing Rust talks. Alas, nothing lasts forever, and my open source funding ended this February.