Dirkjan Ochtman
Fan of Rust, open source maintainer. Please consider sponsoring my OSS work on GitHub.
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- I wrote up my highlights of maintaining Rust code in 2025. 850 PRs submitted across rustls, Hickory DNS, Quinn and many other projects. Thanks to all of my sponsors -- looking forward to 2026! dirkjan.ochtman.nl/writing/2026...
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- Last year, I tried to port a 100-line Python scraping library to Rust, and couldn't get it working. Today I had Claude take a whack at it... and it worked on the first attempt.
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- Reposted by Dirkjan OchtmanWe have built a self-hosted runner system that does virtual machine orchestration under the hood, cutting our CI times by 50-90%, all for barely 400 EUR/month! Delan Azabani explains it all in her talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W1m... Transcript and slides: www.azabani.com/2025/12/18/s...
- If you wanted to replace bincode with something else today, what crate would you pick?
- We (the rustup team) have published a release candidate for rustup 1.29.0, with a much improved toolchain download experience. Please try it out to give us feedback in advance of the release. internals.rust-lang.org/t/seeking-be...
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- Interesting Rust semver hazard: if you're not `warn(unnameable_types)`, you could be leaking private dependencies via fields in types that are unnameable but can be reached, and this won't be detected by tools based on rustdoc-types (like cargo-check-external-types).
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- Earlier this year, LWN.net featured an excellent article named "Linux's missing CRL infrastructure", and today Canonical announced it will be working with me and @jbp.io over the coming weeks to start bridging the PKI infrastructure gap. discourse.ubuntu.com/t/addressing...
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- @bitwarden.bsky.social broke passkey support in their browser extension and after 8 days they have neither released a fix nor rolled back their extension to the previous version (which at least some extension directories allow). github.com/bitwarden/cl...
- Input lag on GitHub is increasingly bad. :(
