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Amazing how companies you've been giving money to for months suddenly no longer get your name right. Is this the result of too much vibe coding at Hertz?

Technically, it was NVIDIA who sponsored my work on TLC+LLMs.

More on why syntax has at least become a red herring: bsky.app/profile/hill...

Controversial take: The rejection of this Quint-related proposal (github.com/strimzi/prop...) suggests that people's real challenge with TLA+ isn't its syntax—it's the semantics.

Cheng is a long-time TLA+ expert. There is still lots to do to really democratize TLA+ with AI.

Reasoning about Distributed Protocols with Smart Casual Verification Here at decentralized thoughts, we spend a lot of time reasoning about distributed protocols. Often, we focus on solving distributed consensus, personally it’s my favorite CS problem, but it’s also fa...

It's wonderful to be writing again at Decentralized Thoughts! This time focusing on how we can tie together the messy reality of real-world distributed system to the elegant formal models we often use instead for reasoning about correctness. decentralizedthoughts.github.io/2025-05-23-s...

Expose TLA+ language model tools via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server by lemmy · Pull Request #379 · tlaplus/vscode-tlaplus Add support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) which enables TLA+ language model tools to be used by editors that implement MCP but don't support VS Code's native LanguageModelTool API (c...

I scratched my own itch and got the MCP server launching directly from within my VSCode extension. Implementation at: github.com/tlaplus/vsco...

It's smart casual verification (like the dress code) instead of causal verification but still it's fab to see our recent NSDI paper featured in the @msftresearch.bsky.social Research Focus.

foundation.tlapl.us/blog/2025-05...

Related: www.reddit.com/r/mcp/commen...

"Je n’ai fait cette lettre-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." Pascal

As someone building a VSCode extension for #TLAplus, I have some questions about #VSCode, #Cursor, and #MCP. Would appreciate any insights!
🔗 forum.cursor.com/t/support-la...
🔗 github.com/microsoft/vs...

Jesse's 2025 TLA+ Community Event Notes A one-day conference about temporal logic.

My notes from the 2025 TLA+ Community Event emptysqua.re/blog/2025-tl...

What actually works when selling formal methods in industry?

What doesn't?

The way Galois Principal Scientist @m-dodds.bsky.social sees it, many FM projects don’t pencil out not because clients are irrational, but because the cost/benefit tradeoffs don’t make sense.
www.galois.com/articles/wha...

We were busy recording all the talks so you can watch them within 36 hours after the event at conf.tlapl.us/2025-etaps/ 😊

🔧 GenAI-Accelerated #TLAplus Challenge is live!
Use GenAI to enhance TLA⁺ specs, tools, or workflows.
Submit your project for a chance to win a prize.
Details: foundation.tlapl.us/challenge/in...

Smart Casual Verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework This paper (NSDI'25) applies lightweight formal methods (hence the pun "smart casual" in contrast to formal attire) to the Confidential Con...

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Smart Casual Verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework (NSDI'25)

muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/02/smar...

A big thank you to @muratdemirbas.bsky.social for covering our upcoming NSDI paper on his blog. The paper documents our adventures with “smart casual verification”, combining formal specification and model checking with validation of real execution traces from the Confidential Consortium Framework

Hard to answer without knowing what the book is about?

As Jack's blog post points out, Fizzbee is programming. Therefore, it shares more similarities with comparable approaches, such as P.

My comparison stops at: Both allow you to define a state machine, check invariants and temporal properties, and come with a model checker.

"Fizzbee is very similar to TLA+ in many ways..." but different in even more significant ways!

Same but UI-based configuration:

Save the date! The TLA+ Community Event 2025 will take place on May 4, 2025, in Hamilton, Canada. This marks a first for our academic conference, as it will be held outside Europe for the very first time.

conf.tlapl.us/2025-etaps/ #tlaplus

TLA+ is math and math syntax is in the training set. I've been successfully using GitHub Copilot to write TLA+ for the past two years. It's great at suggesting completions for the current line, but I don't trust it for larger chunks that I can't eyeball; Specs are dense, with no boilerplate.