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I’ve been working on so many projects in 2025, I thought it was important for me to make a recap, if only just to clear my head.

About two weeks ago I entered a discussion with the docs.rs team about, basically, why we have to look at this: When we could be looking at this: And of course, as always, there are reasons why things are the way they are.

Note: this article is adapted from a presentation I gave at a Rust Paris Meetup — that’s why it sounds a little different than usual.

There are several Rust quizzes online, including one that’s literally called the “Unfair Rust Quiz” at https://this.quiz.is.fckn.gay/, but when I was given the opportunity to record an episode of the Self-Directed Research podcast live on the main stage of

A couple months ago I made a loudness meter and went way too in-depth into how humans have measured loudness over time.

Earlier this week, an npm supply chain attack.

On September 8 2025, around 13:00 UTC, someone compromised Josh Junon’s npm account (qix) and started publishing backdoored versions of his package.

My watch has a “Noise” app: it shows dB , for decibels.

There are news!

I do not come to you with answers today, but rather some observations and a lot of questions.

I have long been at war against Rust compile times.

Addressing the rumors There have been rumors going around, in the Reddit thread for facet, my take on reflection in Rust, which happened a bit too early, but here we are, cat’s out of the bag, let’s talk about it!

I’ve been bragging about my website software for years!

The part that makes Rust scary is the part that makes it unique.

Disclaimer: Trigger warning: depression, talk of suicide.

Background I recently had a bit of impromptu disaster recovery, and it gave me a hunger for more!

Background im-promp-tu (im-ˈpräm(p)-(ˌ)tü) made, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment: improvised composed or uttered without previous preparation: extemporaneous Merriam-Webster On March 18th, 2025, I thought I would look into self-hosted

The most popular option to decompress ZIP files from the Rust programming language is a crate simply named zip — At the time of this writing, it has 48 million downloads.

In December 2023, a minor miracle happened: async fn in traits shipped.

I have obsessed about this long enough, I think it’s only fair I (and you!)

What’s a ktls I started work on ktls and ktls-sys, a pair of crates exposing Kernel TLS offload to Rust, about two years ago. kTLS lets the kernel (and, in turn, any network interface that supports it) take care of encryption, framing, etc., for the entire

It’s time for some personal and professional news!

I try to avoid doing “meta” / “behind the scenes” stuff, because I usually feel like it has to be “earned”.

My family wasn’t poor by any stretch of the imagination, but I was raised to avoid spending money whenever possible.

I use the draw.io desktop app to make diagrams for my website.