# rust (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 879 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover rust. Page: Feed: --- ## [Darksight Dare, Lois McMaster Bujold](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/Darksight_Dare__Lois_McMaster_Bujold.html) _2026-08-21 · RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts_ 2026 fantasy novella in the World of the Five Gods (formerly known as Chalion). A hedge-sorcerer is dying, and the Temple has a use for her demon, if the demon agrees. Meanwhile, a blinded cavalryman comes seeking healing… ## [Qt Safe Renderer 2.2.0 Released and Certified!](https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-safe-renderer-2.2.0-released-and-certified) _2026-08-20 · tarja.sundqvist@qt.io (Tarja Sundqvist) · Qt Blog_ We are happy to announce the release and certification of Qt Safe Renderer (QSR) 2.2.0! The QSR 2.2.0 release is available for commercial customers with a Device Creation Enterprise license. ## [On Loops](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/On_Loops.html) _2026-08-20 · RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts_ I've found myself thinking lately about loops. ## [Small Models for Agentic Systems](https://www.dotnetperls.com/2026_8_20_small-models-agentic-systems) _2026-08-20 · Dot Net Perls Blog_ Last night I spent some time trying to make my MCP server work with a smaller local model , one that is just 1.2 billion parameters and 696 MB on disk. This is LiquidAI's LFM 2.5 1.2B, with file name LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-QAD-Q4\_0.gguf . LFM 1.2B Most small models I test fail too badly and I just delete them right away. However this model seemed to have some potential to work for my agentic system.… ## [With the help of modern programming tools](https://kerkour.com/ai-assisted-programming) _2026-08-20 · Sylvain Kerkour_ How do you know if someone's is pro / against AI? Don't, worry—they'll tell you hahahaha It seems that AI has infected the brain of the boosters as much as ## [Supply chain attack on arrayref](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/supply-chain-attack-on-arrayref/) _2026-08-20 · Manish Goregaokar · Rust Blog_ What happened On 2026-08-20 at 7:15 UTC we got a report that the proc-macro1 crate was malicious. The Rust Security Response Team verified this to be the case: the crate had a build script that was downloading a malicious payload. This crate proc-macro1 and others like it ( proc-macro-en , aovine , arone , aronenao , tinymember ) have been deleted. Furthermore, we discovered that the popular… ## [Announcing Rust 1.98.0](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/Rust-1.98.0/) _2026-08-20 · The Rust Release Team · Rust Blog_ The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.98.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup , you can get 1.98.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don't have it already, you can get rustup from the appropriate page on our website, and check out the detailed release notes… ## [Atproto Gave Me Superpowers to Fix My Bookhive Data](https://www.davideaversa.it/bytes/202608191844-atproto-gave-me-superpowers-to-fix-my-bookhive-data/?utm_source=atom_feed) _2026-08-19 · Davide Aversa · Davide Aversa_ I let Claude log into my atproto PDS with a temporary password and fix my messy Bookhive reading data against my Obsidian vault. Ten minutes later, everything was in sync. Imagine what we could do if this was the standard way of interacting with applications data. -- Read More ## [Linklog | Compression is prediction](https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction?utm_campaign=Data_Elixir&utm_source=Data_Elixir_585&_bhlid=1d325396ac3c46d76d73e5765b22ac1702ee2b76) _2026-08-19 · Nicolas Chagnet's Homepage_ Incredible article about compression algorithms, with insane visualizations. ## [Introduction to Cthulhu Eternal](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/Introduction_to_Cthulhu_Eternal.html) _2026-08-19 · RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts_ I recently had occasion to write up a quick introduction to Cthulhu Eternal for a group I play with, and thought it might be more broadly useful. ## [Finnish Seedboxes — Up to 20Gbps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sya86tsTJ50A) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Private Finnish seedboxes with 1–20Gbps speeds, RAID storage and 14‑day refund ## [Combining MCP Server Tool Calls](https://www.dotnetperls.com/2026_8_19_combining-mcp-server-tool-calls) _2026-08-19 · Dot Net Perls Blog_ Should tool calls be combined in a MCP (Model Context Protocol) server? It is sometimes possible to have 10 functions, or 1 function that receives a separate argument like command . I wanted to test both approaches in my Rust code. Combining Tool Calls After getting an LLM to do some of the initial work, I changed 7 functions into 1 function that receives a command argument. Then I tested the new… ## [Grok Bot](https://blog.duyet.net/2026/08/grok-bot) _2026-08-19 · Tôi là Duyệt_ I am on SuperGrok Heavy because of Grok Bot and I am super impressed. Wow, from me, at first. The harness is surprisingly good. The UI/UX is surprisingly good. ## [Automate your own APT, YUM/DNF, and APK repositories using GitHub Actions, Cloudflare R2, and a Worker](https://fpira.com/blog/2026/08/building-linux-package-repositories/) _2026-08-18 · Francesco Pira · Francesco Pira_ Packing and publishing compiled software to APT, YUM/DNF, and APK repositories with GitHub Actions. ## ["My Baby Is Ugly"](https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/my-baby-is-ugly/?utm_source=atom_feed) _2026-08-18 · Davide Aversa · Davide Aversa_ Every time I finish a draft, I need to face the reality: my draft sucks. Stiff dialogue, absent descriptions, plot holes larger than my apartment. But I can make it better. Revising is hard work, but it is the best work. -- Read More ## ["My Baby Is Ugly"](https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/my-baby-is-ugly/?utm_source=atom_feed) _2026-08-18 · Davide Aversa · Davide Aversa_ Every time I finish a draft, I need to face the reality: my draft sucks. Stiff dialogue, absent descriptions, plot holes larger than my apartment. But I can make it better. Revising is hard work, but it is the best work. -- Read More ## [Qt 6.11.2 Released](https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.11.2-released) _2026-08-18 · jani.heikkinen@qt.io (Jani Heikkinen) · Qt Blog_ Qt 6.11.2 is now available for download. As a patch release, Qt 6.11.2 doesn’t introduce new features, but it delivers around 400 bug fixes, security improvements, and quality enhancements on top of Qt 6.11.1. For a full overview of the most notable changes, take a look at the Qt 6.11.2 release notes . ## [Cold Days at Castle Drax, Charlotte E. English](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/Cold_Days_at_Castle_Drax__Charlotte_E__English.html) _2026-08-18 · RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts_ 2024 short horror-fantasy novel. Castle Drax is falling apart, and the only way for the family to survive is to sell it, though nobody wants to. ## [Local LLMs and Disappointment](https://www.dotnetperls.com/2026_8_18_local-llms-disappointment) _2026-08-18 · Dot Net Perls Blog_ Yesterday I was thinking about my MCP server, and how it has 10 functions-if I could combine some of the tools , could I make it faster? I decided to use a prompt to combine some of the functions in Pi code with llama-cpp . Local LLMs I tried: Laguna XS 2.1, which in a 4-bit quantized form became confused and ended up not able to fix a compile-time error in Rust. Meta Muse Glimmer, which in a… ## [7.5x faster encryption in pure Go with the new simd and archsimd packages](https://kerkour.com/golang-chacha20-encryption-simd-archsimd) _2026-08-18 · Sylvain Kerkour_ I needed to implement my ChaCha20-BLAKE3 encryption algorithm in Go, but unfortunately ChaCha20 from Go's stdlib is lacking SIMD acceleration on amd64, probably because ChaCha20-Poly1305 (used in TLS) already has ## [Building a Plugin System for Rust: WebAssembly vs Native vs Scripting Language vs Rules Engine](https://kerkour.com/rust-plugin-system) _2026-08-18 · Sylvain Kerkour_ Now that software is ru(i)nning the world, there are very few things that are more frustrating and productivity-killing than being limited by a piece of software, either because the maker ## [AI Summaries & Audio Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/cCmQCtpF779N) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to concise audio briefings for the latest stories. ## [Better defaults for CSS](https://rossabaker.com/configs/website/style/reset/) _2026-08-17 · Ross A. Baker · Old man yells at Internet on Ross A. Baker (English)_ Default browser presentations have converged to mostly obsolete the venerable resets of yore . That does not mean they converged to an ideal place. Like my beloved Emacs, several defaults that are popular to change, but persist for backward compatibility. This layer is for fixing those. I want this layer to be unopinionated, but what's unopinionated tends to be a matter of opinion. It should at… ## [Tending my little plot of the Internet](https://seanmonstar.com/blog/owning-microblog-email/) _2026-08-17 · seanmonstar_ As many parts of the Internet continue to get worse, I figured it was time to improve my own little plot. I mean, I’m always tinkering, making small tweaks regularly. Did you know I keep /now up-to-date? But anyways, a couple changes here felt big enough to write about. My microblog is mine I’ve been outputting random microposts since… checks archive 2009, apparently. They were “status updates”… ## [That Emergency Alert](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/That_Emergency_Alert.html) _2026-08-17 · RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts_ Was Friday's message suitable content for an emergency alert? ## [Ling Tiny and LLMs as Commodities](https://www.dotnetperls.com/2026_8_17_ling-tiny-llms-commodities) _2026-08-17 · Dot Net Perls Blog_ I have a small MCP server I use to deal with administrative tasks. I have found several LLMs work to use the MCP server-so I can choose between GGUF files on Hugging Face and use whichever one works best (or fastest). Ling 3.0 Tiny Today support for Ling models (made by Ant Group, somehow related to Alibaba) was added to llama-cpp . So I downloaded Ling-3.0-tiny-Q4\_K\_M.gguf and tried it out on my… ## [GitHub Was Never About the Source Code](https://endler.dev/2026/github-was-never-about-the-source-code/) _2026-08-17 · matthias@endler.dev (Matthias Endler) · Matthias Endler_ With GitHub down once again, I decided to write this long-overdue blog post. This was the top comment on Hacker News when I started writing this: For a variety of reasons, we had a centralized place where everyone of a particular set of persuasions could connect, and this had outside benefits for the community as a whole. That place is becoming untenable, and with the loss of goodwill and… ## [The Weekly Challenge 386: A Rational Reverse](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/The_Weekly_Challenge_386__A_Rational_Reverse.html) _2026-08-16 · RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts_ I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges . The latest involved base conversions and repeating decimals. (Note that this ends today.) ## [Switching to Pi Agent Harness](https://www.dotnetperls.com/2026_8_16_switching-pi-agent-harness) _2026-08-16 · Dot Net Perls Blog_ I have used both Pi and OpenCode in the past, and although I liked Pi I tended to just use OpenCode out of habit. OpenCode has become more efficient over time, and it works well enough. However, Pi seems to be even faster and more minimal, and also is a more pure open source project. Pi Agent Harness One thing that concerns me about OpenCode is that it seems to be interested in selling AI… ## [I’m Writing a Book on WebAssembly and Spin](https://thorsten-hans.com/i-am-writing-a-book-on-wasm-and-spin/) _2026-08-15 · Thorsten Hans_ Hey friends 👋🏼, If you’ve been following my activities over the recent years, you know I can’t stop talking about the third wave of cloud computing . Server-side WebAssembly is completely changing the game for cold-start latency and container bloat. Today, I’m thrilled to announce I’m turning those talks and architectural patterns into a practical, hands-on guide: Building… ## [Where Eagles Dare (1968)](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/Where_Eagles_Dare__1968_.html) _2026-08-15 · RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts_ 1968 war, dir. Brian G. Hutton, Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood: IMDb . The captured general has to be got out of the impregnable fortress. Or does he? ## [Meta Muse Glimmer at 2 Bits](https://www.dotnetperls.com/2026_8_15_meta-muse-glimmer-2-bits) _2026-08-15 · Dot Net Perls Blog_ I was feeling a little left out over the course of this last week as most of the open-weights models released were too large for me to run locally . Meta started the week with Muse Glimmer, a 30B parameter dense model. Then Qwen 3.8 and GLM 5.3—all of which were a bit too large for my 12 GB Nvidia GPU. Meta Muse Glimmer However, I found a 2-bit quantization of Meta Muse Glimmer , and decided… ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/RY01gJ0ftEQp) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [Four levels of in-place initialization](https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/four-levels-of-in-place-initialization/) _2026-08-15 · Yosh Wuyts — Blog_ Introduction The goal of in-place initialization is to enable the construction of types directly into a memory location without any additional moves or copies. When working with big types this can be more efficient and even prevent stack overflows. But some types are what we call address sensitive and so cannot be moved for correctness reasons. There is some disagreement about how we should encode… ## [Taking Vanilla OS 2 for a Spin: A Stable Core with Infinite Apps](https://shinglyu.com/blog/2026/08/15/vanilla-os-2-impressions.html) _2026-08-15 · Shing Lyu - Articles_ I’ve been keeping an eye on Vanilla OS for quite a while, but almost all the official documentation was still focused on version 1. Back then, they were planning for the big v1 to v2 upgrade, so I waited. Since I visit my parents once a year, I need a stable, low-maintenance operating system that can be continuously upgraded so I can do some light work during my visits. The last thing I want to do… ## [Protecting the Rust standard library from accidental breakage](https://predr.ag/blog/protecting-the-rust-stdlib-from-breakage/) _2026-08-15 · Predrag Gruevski · Predrag Gruevski's blog and personal site._ Accidental breakage can happen in any codebase . The Rust standard library isn't magically exempt from this — so it too now uses cargo-semver-checks to prevent accidental breakage . Here's why this took months of work by multiple Rustaceans, dozens of pull requests, and 15,000+ lines of code across the Rust repo, cargo-semver-checks , and its component libraries. ## [Component Composition with Spin 4.0](https://thorsten-hans.com/component-composition-with-spin-4/) _2026-08-14 · Thorsten Hans_ Thanks to the WebAssembly Component Model we can stitch together multiple WebAssembly Components. Reusing Wasm Components boost developer velocity dramatically while language barriers vanish. In this hands-on article, I’ll explain how you can compose Wasm Components using Spin 4.0. What You Need To Follow Along I’ll try to keep things as simple as possible. That’s why we’ll… ## [The Moth Catcher, Ann Cleeves](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/The_Moth_Catcher__Ann_Cleeves.html) _2026-08-14 · RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts_ 2015 contemporary police mystery, seventh in Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series. In rural Northumberland, the house sitter for the local Big House is found dead beside the road, though it's not a hit and run. When his flat is checked, there's another corpse, and the only thing that seems to connect them is an enthusiasm for moths. ## [Dottler - Manage .env Files Across Git Worktrees](http://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/dottler/) _2026-08-14 · Stonecharioteer on Tech_ Manage .env files across Git worktrees with Dottler, a local Rust CLI that imports, stores, and dumps project environment variables without a server. ## [Failure of the week: encoding images to AVIF without keeping the originals](https://kerkour.com/avif-failure) _2026-08-14 · Sylvain Kerkour_ I was reading about the AV1 video codec and the derived AVIF image format and decided to experiment with it. The results are impressive: PNG file size can be divided ## [The skills that didn't go anywhere](https://ryangjchandler.co.uk/posts/the-skills-that-didnt-go-anywhere) _2026-08-14 · Ryan Chandler · Ryan Chandler_ A while back I wrote about AI anxiety , and I ended it with a line I still believe: your value isn't in writing every line of code, it's in knowing which lines should exist at all. It's the kind of thing that's easy to agree with but much harder to actually feel on a Tuesday afternoon, when you've spent the day describing problems and reading diffs and you're not sure you've built anything. So… ## [Total Solar Eclipse, August 2026](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/Total_Solar_Eclipse__August_2026.html) _2026-08-13 · RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts_ Just before sunset? How could I not, really? ## [Inkling Chat Bot for Code Analysis](https://www.dotnetperls.com/2026_8_13_inkling-chat-bot-code-analysis) _2026-08-13 · Dot Net Perls Blog_ I have been experimenting more with various chat bots available on the Internet. Inkling , a new LLM from the American company Thinking Machines, is a higher-end LLM (although not really frontier). I tried having it rewrite a few Rust functions . Inkling Model It reasoned through the statements and carefully designed faster versions. I liked how it gave me several rewritten versions : ones that… ## [Staff Gazing](https://raniz.se/blog/2026/staff-gazing/) _2026-08-13 · Raniz.se_ If you don't measure, how can you expect to improve? ## [What Security Keys to Trust](https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2026-08-13-what-security-key-to-trust/) _2026-08-13 · Unknown · Firstyear's blog-a-log_ In an earlier post, I discussed how Passkeys were single factor and why that was mostly okay. Today, I want to go over the other side of this in more detail - what happens when you have stronger requirements around the Passkeys that can be used in your environment, and how you can assess devices for trustworthiness? TL;DR If you want the "easy-path" answer, where myself and the Kanidm +… ## [Example iframe source](https://rossabaker.com/configs/website/specimens/tasting-menu/iframe/) _2026-08-12 · Old man yells at Internet on Ross A. Baker (English)_ An example iframe to embed in the tasting-menu specimen I am an iframe I exist on the same domain to be more CSP friendly. ## [Top 4 Unicode characters](https://rossabaker.com/notes/top4-unicode-characers/) _2026-08-12 · Ross A. Baker · Old man yells at Internet on Ross A. Baker (English)_ 🄯 (U+1F12F, COPYLEFT SYMBOL) ⅌ (U+214C, PER SIGN) ↉ (U+2189, VULGAR FRACTION ZERO THIRDS) (U+2006, SIX-PER-EM SPACE) ## [Neighbourly Games 10 August](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/Neighbourly_Games_10_August.html) _2026-08-12 · RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts_ More gaming with nearby friends. ## [Chat Bot Mistakes Rust Vecs](https://www.dotnetperls.com/2026_8_12_chat-bot-mistakes-rust-vecs) _2026-08-12 · Dot Net Perls Blog_ Today I was using an online chat bot (a well-known one) and exploring changes to my Rust code. The chat bot confidently told me that in Rust a Vec of bool is encoded as a single bit per bool . I even asked if this was "truly" the case in Rust, as I was not familiar with this. Rust Vecs In Rust the Vec type does not tend to have type-specific optimizations like for bool . It is supposed to be… ## [Building scalable backend services with Rust and PostgreSQL](https://kerkour.com/rust-scalable-backend-services) _2026-08-12 · Sylvain Kerkour_ While Rust is not as productive as Go and its legendary standard library to write backend service, Rust's rich type system, compiler-enforced correctness and zero-cost abstraction make it a great ## [Micro: A trait for fluent Durations](https://seanmonstar.com/micro/20260812-trait-fluent-durations/) _2026-08-12 · seanmonstar_ I dislike the pattern in some languages to create durations by multiplying constants. It feels like a concession when it cannot be expressed more nicely. There’s a tracking issue to add such constants in libstd. How about a trait instead? (I suggested it in the tracking issue a long time ago, but it’s lost in the noise). Rust traits are awesome. They can be implemented on any other type, even… ## [Radiant Star, Ann Leckie](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/Radiant_Star__Ann_Leckie.html) _2026-08-11 · RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts_ 2026 SF, set in the same universe as the Imperial Radch series but not part of the trilogy. The Temporal Location of the Radiant Star is a pilgrimage site on the rogue world of Aaa, and the main reason anyone goes there. Then the Radchaai decide that it's ripe for annexation… ## [Muse Spark in OpenCode](https://www.dotnetperls.com/2026_8_11_muse-spark-opencode) _2026-08-11 · Dot Net Perls Blog_ I tested Muse Spark 1.1 , a new close-to-frontier LLM from Meta Superintelligence Labs , on my Rust program. Given that I have used small local models to maintain my Rust program, I felt Muse Spark should have no trouble. I had a fairly simple task I wanted done. Muse Spark I set up the model in OpenCode with OpenRouter . I had to verify that I am indeed at least 18 years of age before it would…