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Hey folks, finally got my resume into shape and figured I'd try to #getfedihired.

Looking for a tech job doing backend work--I can do full-stack but being #blind means I'm going to struggle more with UI. I'm proficient in #Rust, #Elixir, #Golang, #TypeScript, and a handful of other languages. I have Android experience as well, and have done fun accessibility-related projects like writing an Android screen reader from scratch or adding screen-reader-like functionality to multiple game engines.

I don't mind big tech too much but am looking to switch away to something more co-op/non-profit if possible. It'd be nice to use my tech skills for good, not just for some investor's benefit. Good work/life balance is also a must--I don't live to work, I work to live.

Here's my resume if any of this sounds intriguing. Thanks for reading and/or boosting!


Rust is nice, but I really dislike this "rewrite it in Rust" stuff. It's tiring for any #FreeSoftware maintainer to be bombarded by this and honestly, as an opinion, some of the projects I™ have seen doing this have lost contributors, some have even been stopped for months.

#Rust Community, please create your alternatives written in Rust since it is so urgent, instead of putting this unnecessary pressure on communities already overloaded with demands.


rPGP is an #OpenPGP implementation in pure #Rust (crates.io/crates/pgp).

It serves as the end-to-end encryption engine for Delta Chat:
@delta, a secure decentralized messager for all major platforms (and then some).

rPGP implements all generations of the OpenPGP standard, up to and including the new RFC 9580.

#RustLang #Cryptography #PGP


Rusty V8 is now stable!

With zero-overhead bindings to V8 APIs, memory safety through Rust’s ownership model, and great docs, it’s battle-hardened and production-ready. From here on, Rusty V8 will follow Chrome versions for predictable upgrades.

deno.com/blog/rusty-v8-stabili…

#rust #deno #javascript #typescript #v8


New release today: #rPGP version 0.14.0 ✨

(#OpenPGP implemented in pure #Rust, permissively licensed)

github.com/rpgp/rpgp/releases/…

This release brings rather complete support for the excellent new OpenPGP RFC 9580 (also known as "crypto refresh", or "v6")

RFC 9580 standardizes modern cryptographic mechanisms for OpenPGP: AEAD-based encryption, Argon2, and SHA2 fingerprints for the new OpenPGP v6 key format (v4 keys use SHA1).

Thanks @NGIZero for supporting this work!

#RustLang #PGP #GnuPG


Are you a FOSS developer? Do you want to learn #Rust #RustLang? I will give a two hour course on the basics of Rust Saturday, September 28, at 16:00 UTC. This is early evening for Europe, and morning in the US. (I can do another session that's more suitable for Asia, later.)

Info: liw.fi/training/rust-foss-dev/


Linus Torvalds: Rust will go into Linux 6.1

At the Kernel Maintainers Summit, the question wasn't, "Would Rust make it into Linux?" Instead, it was, "What to do about its compilers?"

The Rust in Linux debate is over. The implementation has begun. In an email conversation, Linux's creator @torvalds told, "Unless something odd happens, it [Rust] will make it into 6.1."

🐧 zdnet.com/article/linus-torval…

#linux #rust #linustorvalds #rustlang #it #code #opensource #kernel #linuxkernel


#Discord I'm out.

I tried to friend someone in a group I've been active in for months alongside using Discord for several years for various software support (#Svelte, #Rust, #Tauri, #Servo and others).

I've never run a native app or given up my phone number to Discord, Twitter, Facebook etc. but Discord want it to verify my account. As each of the others tried to do before I left them.

It's nonsense. They don't need that to know I'm legit.

It's all abuse of #privacy so I'm out.
#DarkPatterns


Any #Rust folks giving up on Linux:

#FreeBSD has no current plan for Rust, but we want one! We want experienced Rust people to tell us how it should work. We’re interested in being able to add Rust in both userspace and the kernel, but we need a way of using Rust that works with multi-year support cycles (we need to be able to easily merge security fixes in trunk back to a branch that was originally made four years ago).

Personally, I’d love to see a new service management framework for FreeBSD written in Rust + Lua.


I'm not a "member of the #Rust Evangelization Strike Force", I'm an
#rust


Is this *too much*? Historically, having two crate versions in your dependency tree and accidentally mixing types from them led to horribly obtuse error messages (expected `Foo`, found `Foo`). We've slowly chipped away at them, but somethings I fear I might have gone overboard with detail. 😬

#Rust #RustLang


#AskFedi: does anyone have a good article that explains *in depth* what Cell and RefCell are for in #Rust? So not just "this is what they do" or "this is how they work", but more questions like "why does this exist", "why would you need this", "what other approaches could have been taken and why was this one better".

(Do not send me ad-hoc explanations please; an explanation that fits into a toot is almost certainly not going to be in-depth enough here. I'm looking for articles that were written with deliberation and review.)


In the fresh report "Investing in #Rust" by Shane Miller yours truly is quoted several times.

lawfaremedia.org/article/inves…

#rust


In #Rust, it is undefined behavior to read uninitialized memory.

It is possible to write an operating system kernel in Rust.

An operating system kernel must, at times, read arbitrary memory belonging to a process. The POSIX `write` function, for example.

That memory might be uninitialized. For security reasons, UB must not propagate to other processes as a result of reading it, and yet that appears unavoidable.

How is a kernel written in Rust supposed to deal with this?

#programming


During latest two days I have attempted a minimal #a11y related hacking in #rust with #matrix #fractal code base. While working on it I found this tech note by @Hubert Figuière on subclassing #GTK4 widgets verry help full.
Let's see if I have done it right. At least I am back to chatting now.


"You know what, I'm gonna search for it anyway, but surely the perfect image for this doesn't exi--"

#rust #rustlang


My MR which implements a new image mounting dialog for #GNOME Disks in #Rust has been merged 🎉

The new dialog allows not only to mount and view disk images, but also to edit, inspect, write or, if the disk image is already mounted, unmount it.

Thanks to @tbernard for the design and to @pothos for the review and help.

#rustlang


I'm happy to announce the release of diesel-async 0.5.

It introduces support for the SQLite backend via a new SyncWrapperConnection type and it provides support for the new diesel Instrumentation interface. Checkout the full release block for more details:

blog.weiznich.de/blog/diesel-a…

#rust #rustlang


🔐 C++ Must Become Safer — Andrew Lilley Brinker — Software Supply Chain Security

「 If a cheap-to-maintain legacy system is faced with the proposition of an expensive rewrite, it may instead be eliminated. The externalities of this kind of change are difficult to consider in advance and in general 」

alilleybrinker.com/blog/cpp-mu…

#C #CPP #Rust #MemorySafety #Infosec


Last week a new GIR parser was released by Bilal Elmoussaoui!
docs.rs/gir-parser/0.1.0/gir_p…
It is written in #Rust, but a C binding would be very easy to write.
I am really thinking if it could maybe at some point be used as the GIR parser for #Vala
Overall it looks very complete and straight forward, also it will be used in the Rust bindings generator, so it will probably be quite stable.


some news regarding rPGP, the minimal #Rust #OpenPGP implementation that stably provides end-to-end encryption for Delta users since many years:

- a new FAQ including questions about IETF specs, Post-Quantum cryptography, Autocrypt, LibrePGP, Seqouia etc. github.com/rpgp/rpgp/blob/mast…

- NLNET just granted #OpenPGP V6 work on rPGP: nlnet.nl/project/rPGP-cryptore…

rPGP is an independent and stable project which provides good general #OpenPGP interoperability, see "rpgpie" in tests.sequoia-pgp.org/


The Rust+Gnome hackfest sponsored by gtk-rs (opencollective.com/gtk-rs) just ended, it allowed us to make great improvements like:

  • rewrite the clone! macro so it can now be formatted and have rust-analyzer run on it
  • rewrite rustdoc-stripper so it now uses rustc internal API directly and can be called with cargo. Some work remains to be done but it's already useable.
  • finally finished the release blog post (we're months late but better late than never :p)
  • lots of other cleanups and bugfixes

#rust #rustlang #gnome #gstreamer #gtk #hackfest #thessaloniki #greece


The fastest non-Google controlled web rendering engine Servo is trying to compete with only $1.6k funding a month:
phoronix.com/news/Servo-Engine…

Yes, they did have an NLNet grant, but that ran out.

If we want an alternative to Blink/Chrome, we need to fund it. This is a project where even a tiny regular amount could yield oversize returns:

servo.org/

#Servo #Rust #Blink #Google #Chrome


We're a bit late but we finally finished writing the release blog post for the last gtk-rs release!

gtk-rs.org/blog/2024/06/01/new…

#rust #rustlang #gtk


✅ Custom Account Colors
✅ Linux System Tray Support
✅ Rust-Enabled Builds

And that's only half of the good news! This month's Thunderbird Development Digest from @alecaddd has some great updates as we step closer to the next ESR.

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/05/t…

#Thunderbird #Development #Rust #Linux


Hi @matt 👋

Yesterday in #LibrePlanet chat I named the #Makepad project, a real adorable 😍 effort that's still lacking on the #a11y side, i.e. could do with some #AccessKit on board.

Today I found out that Makepad is apparently part of a #Rust appdev effort, called #Robius. Another project here is #Dioxus.. also in for @accesskit #accessiblity support.. maybe. 🤔

Robius looks like a very loose conglomeration of independent projects. Maybe AccessKit is even a fit to it?

github.com/project-robius


🦀 The first episode of 'Rust in Production' season 2 is live!

corrode.dev/podcast/s02e01-cur…

Super excited about talking to @bagder about using Rust in curl!

#rustlang #rust #rustinproduction #podcast


Been working on a little #xmpp client!

codeberg.org/Mizah/Dergchat

Still very early-days, but I'm having fun making it!

XMPP chat about it: xmpp:dergchat@conference.mizah…

#instantmessaging #rust #xmpp


I talked about #curl and #rust on the podcast "rust in production":

corrode.dev/podcast/s02e01-cur…


GOSIM 2024 Europe Will Be Held in the Netherlands on May 6th: Embrace the Global Open Source Wave and Build a New Era of AI Here comes the GOSIM 2024 Europe!
medium.com/@gosimfoundation/th…

For more information please visit: europe2024.gosim.org

Scan or register here:
eventbrite.com/e/gosim-2024-co…

#rust #rustlang #rustnl #opensource #gui #mobile #app #ai #fediverse #matrix #gosim


Missed Office Hours last week? No problem: the full recording is ready to watch on YouTube and @tilvids.

The 3 developers behind the effort to bring native Microsoft Exchange support to Thunderbird discuss their adventures in Rust, and explain the long-term benefits and steep challenges associated with this project.

YouTube: youtu.be/yAJl3c0uMCs

PeerTube: tilvids.com/w/1np8cvwqBWtKNwuA…

#Exchange #Thunderbird #Rust #Development


This is a great insightful post about #GameDev in #Rust, worth reading even if you’re not not into either of those but are interested in programming languages and computer engineering. — “I'd argue as far as maintainability being the wrong value for indie games, as what we should strive for is iteration speed. Other languages allow much easier workarounds for immediate problems without necessarily sacrificing code quality.” loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust…


Im currently writing code for my #rust implementation of an external #http Server for #xmpp file uploads. I have recently started migrating from hyper to tiny_http and would like to publish a new version and am currently testing it.
But it would be great if other people could also test (or would like to review rust code) the functionality :)

gitlab.com/nyovaya/xmpp-http-u…Prosodys documentation, which I used as reference:
modules.prosody.im/mod_http_up…


👋 Career change alert!

Looking to pivot into tech & leverage my 10+ years of programming experience

🐍 Python
🦀 Rust
</> Web Development
🌐 CMS: WordPress & Wagtail
✨ Machine Learning: Torch & Tensorflow

My passion for code shines through my open-source projects! Check them out:
github.com/mush42
github.com/blindpandas

#rust #python #machinelearning #careeradvice #opentowork


Thunderchat alert! 🚨

Our Rust and Exchange Community Office Hours start in one hour, at 16:00 UTC! Find out how to join us on Big Blue Button in our blog post. Hope to see you there! 🦀

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/a…

#Thunderbird #Rust #Development


In case you're not following our blog (gasp!), our Rust developers have the technical details on how we're using the language to bring in native Exchange support in the latest post.

So if you're a fan of all things Rust and email protocols, and you want to know what we've done so far and what's coming next, give it a read - and come to our office hours all about Rust and Exchange tomorrow at 16:00 UTC!

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/a…

#Thunderbird #Rust #Development


If you're eagerly anticipating Rust and native Exchange support in Thunderbird, have questions, or want to know what this is all about, you'll want to tune into our next Community Office Hours on April 23 at 16:00 UTC. 🦀

We'll have three of our Rust developers, including @brendan and @leftmostcat to provide info and answer questions and be in our new Big Blue Button room, provided by @kde ! Find out all the details here: blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/a… 💙

#Thunderbird #Rust #Development