Mastodawn

Hi, I'm a masc-y enby Dane living near #Geelong. I've called Australia home for almost 12 years.

I have been writing software professionally for ~20 years in a wife variety of programming languages; including but not limited to: C/C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, Rust, Go, Erlang, VBScript.

I've worked in a range of different industries but have had most fun when the outcome was to enrich peoples lives.

Occasionally I'll post about my #beagles on #DogsOfFedi #DogsOfMastodon (see photo attached for dog tax)

I'd like to do more #electronics and #embedded projects both in my free time and at work. So I keep my #kicad, #freecad and #RustEmbedded/ #RustLang skill trees full of points.

#BoardGames are often being played with my wife and friends.
Trying to find #ttrpg buddies for afk play

I don't post much about #baking or #sourdough, but I have a starter that I've kept around for a number of years now. My wife and I make pizzas and burgers weekly. We both love cooking and entertaining guests with elaborate meals.

I used to do a lot of #SCUBA #diving before 2020 came around. I even trained to be an open water instructor.

I dream of a #SolarPunk future and to live in a society where hate doesn't fill every heart with darkness.

Recently picked up #LockPicking as a fiddle activity while waiting for $job things compiling (Building #NixOS on aarch64 takes a long time)

Wish to ditch my phone for an open computing platform and I secretly want to develop an OS too but that does require a lot of spoons that I currently don't possess.

Christopher Sardegna 1h ago

Crabstep 0.5.0 is now available, bringing opt-in native Apple Foundation accessors: https://github.com/ReagentX/crabstep/releases/tag/0.5.0 #Rust #RustLang

Release 0.5.0 · ReagentX/crabstep

Add opt-in foundation cargo feature (off by default, zero deps, no_std, purely additive) Typed accessors on Property: as_string, as_data, as_bool, as_i64/as_u64/as_f64, as_date/as_unix_time, as_ur...

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RustConf 7h ago

🔦 #rustconf 2026 Speaker Spotlight

"Rust Atomics in the Wild: Memory Ordering Design Patterns from Popular Crates" by Martin Ombura Jr (Scarlaria LLC)

Find on the schedule: https://rustconf2026.sched.com/event/2KHth

Save your spot before prices rise! https://bit.ly/4dHqdj0

#rustconf26 #rustlang

tracyspacy 10h ago

Started working on my directory listing tool in rust with a goal to make as tiny single binary as possible (now it is 55kb macOS and 21kb for rpi). I went no_std since it contributes heavily to binary size. And because I want it work same way on Mac and my rpi zero, I decided to use libc crate for syscalls .
Quickly I noticed that I started to use libc for other stuff, so basically as std . So now it seems I’m writing in something that I can call crust

https://github.com/tracyspacy/fli
#rustlang

GitHub - tracyspacy/fli: cli tool to list directory content

cli tool to list directory content. Contribute to tracyspacy/fli development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Hacker News 6d ago

Building Rust Procedural Macros from the Grounds Up

https://www.learnix-os.com/ch02-03-implementing-the-bitfields-proc-macro.html

#HackerNews #Tech #RustLang

Implementing the Bitfields Proc-Macro [RUST] - The LearnixOS Book

RustConf 12h ago

⏰ #rustconf discounted hotel blocks are starting to fill — the first closes July 8.

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Venue + Travel - RustConf 2026

RustConf 2026 is hosted at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal, September 8-11. Find travel tips, hotel info, and directions here.

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Quin 13h ago

If you really like Paperback and Fedra's updater sequence, I made a standalone Rust crate for this functionality. It fetches assets from GitHub, lets you check for development or latest stable releases, shows the markdown release notes in a nice text field, replaces the running binary in both portable and installer modes, etc. Currently Windows only, but that'll change. This is a small part of my broader goal, to make a collection of crates someone can just pick up and start making accessible desktop apps in Rust. https://crates.io/crates/ship-shape #rust #rustlang #wxdragon