🦀 Op 21 mei is er een hackathon in Utrecht als onderdeel van RustWeek 2026.

Bijzonder: de @kiesraad doet mee! Hun Abacus-engineers zijn aanwezig om samen te werken aan software voor verkiezingsuitslagen en zetelverdeling — met good first issues en met ruimte voor jouw input/ proof of concepts.

📍 Kinepolis Jaarbeurs Utrecht
🗓️ 21 mei, 9:00–17:30
🎟️ Gratis, geen conferentieticket nodig

👉 https://www.meetup.com/rust-nederland/events/314301699/
#rust #hackathon #opensource

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

"... the upcoming "Tech Sovereignty Package" (TSP) might bring to the cloud computing market. US cloud giants such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google could be restricted in their ability to process specific data types on behalf of public organizations, including financial, judicial, and health-related data."

#Privacy #DigitalSovereignty #TSP #GDPR

https://www.techspot.com/news/112362-europe-may-restrict-microsoft-amazon-google-handling-sensitive.html

We’re looking for an IT manager to take ownership of our internal tech environment, keeping it secure, reliable, and flexible.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for both strategic direction and hands-on implementation of infrastructure, tools, IT security, and information architecture while supporting a diverse team.

If you combine technical expertise, strategic thinking, and collaboration, we’d love to hear from you.

https://www.sovereign.tech/jobs/it-manager

#SovereignTechAgency #hiring

“I moved my code from #GitHub to a self-hosted #Forgejo. Not because of the outages, but because of who owns what runs on top of them. The Dutch government just made the same call.”

By ✍️: @jorijn

#git #autonomy #code #inControl

https://jorijn.com/en/blog/leaving-github-for-forgejo/

YES! Vandaag ligt het boek van mij & gedragswetenschapper Reint Jan Renes 🌱 in de boekwinkels❣️

"Alleen als jij het ook doet" gaat over de (on)logica van ons klimaatgedrag. En hoe het anders kan. We willen wel het goede doen, maar onze innerlijke monsters maken het niet makkelijk.

https://helgavanleur.nl/