Author of Hands-on Rust. Rust Trainer at Ardan Labs. Consultant with Bracket Productions and iZones. Rust Series Expert at PragProg.
Joined February 2010
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25 Nov 2025
I haven't received my author's copies yet, but Amazon just notified me that the print edition of Advanced Hands on Rust is now available. a.co/d/fKDDReZ
You can also buy the ebook from Pragprog right now, 50% off with the coupon code "save 50"
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Jun 9
Everyone's banging on about loops
When they should be thinking about queues
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Spring Forward Sale
50% off with code Spring2026 at checkout
Each week we add titles you can use, now
Only at Pragprog
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Spring Forward - The Human Side
Exercising your mind is a great way to support your human side - so we're adding our whole collection of Brain Teasers to the Spring Forward Sale - 50% off with code Spring2026 at checkout!
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Jun 6
๐ฆ Rust: how to do inheritance.
Carl M. Kadie walks through 9 inheritance-shaped problems and shows the Rust way to solve them: traits, default methods, supertraits, extension traits, derive, wrappers, macros, bounds, and composition.
medium.com/@carlmkadie/nine-โฆ
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The range/copy improvement should make it harder to mess up by mistake, a nice and tidy little update.
May 29
๐ฆ Rust 1.96.0 is out!
Link to the full release notes in the comments below ๐
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Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl
ALT Image: Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl
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NIC Chile participa en el 2do Congreso de la Cooperativa de Telecomunicaciones de Chile COTEL. nic.cl/anuncios/20260525-conโฆ
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May 27
The Spring Sale Continues!
50% off with code Spring2026
This week: Expand Your Mindset
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May 27
Network Programming in Elixir and Erlang
@whatyouhide
pragprog.com/titles/alnpee
Effective Haskell
Rebecca Skinner
pragprog.com/titles/rshaskelโฆ
Advanced Hands-on Rust
@herberticus
pragprog.com/titles/hwmrust
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Rust databases just got better. SQLx 0.9.0 is out. ๐ฆ
Highlights:
โ New sqlx.toml config : multi-database and multi-tenant setups made easy
โ SqlSafeStr trait : SQL injection safety baked into the type system
โ smol & async-global-executor runtime support
โ SQLite extension loading at compile-time
โ MySQL collation bug finally fixed
โ Repo moving to a new org: github.com/transact-rs
๐ github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/โฆ
#Rust #RustLang #SQLx #Database #OpenSource #BackendDevelopment
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Time to rename a bunch of curriculum stuff, but good news!
May 19
๐ฆ Rust Big News: tonic is joining the official gRPC project
hyperium/tonic becomes grpc/grpc-rust
โข stronger long-term maintenance
โข Google/LinkedIn/Datadog involved
โข xDS support via tonic-xds
โข better path for production Rust gRPC
luciofranco.com/blog/tonic-jโฆ
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Rust turns 11 today ๐ฆ๐
A lot has changed since 1.0, but the story is still being written.
From the first stable release to today, Rust has grown into a language shaped by curiosity, careful design, and a community that keeps raising the bar for software.
Whatโs on your Rust birthday wish list? ๐ Tell us in the comments.
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This is a fantastic feature!
In large Rust codebases, 'Find Usages' gives you a list. But a list doesn't tell you how execution flows through trait methods and concrete implementations.
Call Hierarchy in RustRover does.
Navigate call chains step by step, see exactly how a function gets reached, and understand the path, not just the references.
Find more about it here ๐
jetbrains.com/rust/whatsnew/โฆ
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Our colleague @herberticus was on Roundabout: Creative Chaos Podcast EP 145 to talk about #Rust ๐ฆ, #LibreQoS, #bufferbloat, #OpenSource, #latency and more:
roundaboutcreativechaos.com/โฆ
#RustLang #latency #ISP #QoE #broadband #jitter
#Malawi #JetBrains #FQ_CoDel #RFC8290 #QoS
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Gpt5.5 is a strange model. It can get things working from a vague outcome (usually with obvious holes). Give it a detailed algorithm for what you want, and half the time it decides it knows better - and makes something far worse. 5.2 xhigh is still my preference.
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I'm also 0 for 3 on /goal. All 3 function, and all 3 skipped specified steps. Still getting far better results with a PRD, small steps and verifying each one.
Or just writing the code, which is more fun anyway.
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This is the the quote I've been citing a lot recently.
Feb 4
you can outsource your thinking
but you cannot outsource your understanding
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Eliminating whole categories of bugs is awesome - doesn't mean you can forget the others, but still awesome!
๐ฆ A security audit just taught the Rust community something valuable.
Canonical audited uutils, the Rust rewrite of GNU coreutils shipping in Ubuntu and found 44 vulnerabilities.
Not one CVE was:
- Buffer overflow
- Use-after-free
- Data race
- Null pointer dereference
For context : GNU coreutils had ALL of these in just the last 3 years.
So what kind of bugs did Rust miss?
Logic bugs at OS boundaries:
โ Race conditions between syscalls (TOCTOU)
โ Path string != filesystem identity
โ UTF-8 where bytes were needed
โ Errors swallowed instead of propagated
โ Diverging from GNU's exact behavior
๐ Full breakdown โ corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wโฆ
#Rust #RustLang #Security #SystemsProgramming #OpenSource
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Apr 27
Check out the entire top 18 Pragmatic Bookshelf Best Sellers this week:
pragprog.com/best_sellers/
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#LibreQoS - When we finished removing the reload penalty, we unblocked a lot of development options - many of them features people have been wanting for a long time. The most recent is dynamic circuits:
devblog.libreqos.com/posts/0โฆ
#bufferbloat #latency #jitter #OpenSource #QoE #QoS
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