Matt Bolitho

Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.

19.09.2025 18:02 — 👍 5956    🔁 806    💬 102    📌 44

Announcing Rust 1.90.0 | Rust Blog Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Rust 1.90.0 has been released! ✨🦀

This release makes LLD the default linker on x86-64 linux-gnu and adds `cargo publish --workspace` to publish an entire workspace all at once!

Check out the blog post and release notes for more: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/R...

18.09.2025 19:20 — 👍 216    🔁 45    💬 0    📌 5

The author giving a presentation in front of a crowd of roughly 20 people.

Had a great time speaking at @dotnetoxford.com yesterday!

18.06.2025 07:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Giving my first ever talk tonight!

17.06.2025 16:24 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

To celebrate the release of the Nintendo Switch 2™, the C committee has added an Easter egg to the C programming language called the "switch" statement! Connect your compiler with your Ninteno Online™ account to try it out!

05.06.2025 11:16 — 👍 169    🔁 41    💬 4    📌 1

Meta AI will soon train on EU users’ data Now’s your chance to train Meta AI some more (or opt out).

opt out here: www.facebook.com/help/contact...

www.theverge.com/news/648128/...

17.04.2025 13:35 — 👍 351    🔁 202    💬 11    📌 7

Our orange Siberian cat, Royal McBee, snoozes on a chair

BREAKING: In an early morning ruling, a federal judge has wished you a Happy #Caturday

08.02.2025 19:08 — 👍 70    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

ACCU 2025 : News As we end the second week of the year, I don't know about you, but I'm still writing 1996 on my cheques. But a new year, of course, means looking forward to another ACCU conference - and we're now…

2025 is here - and so is the ACCU 2025 schedule!

Check out all the talks, including our four fantastic keynotes - as well as seven workshops (including some online options):

13.01.2025 17:04 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence - Intellectual Property Office - Citizen Space Find and participate in activities run by Intelluctual Property Office

Reminder that we can inform the UK government about the risks of AI until Feb 25. It is a lot to do all in one go, but you can come back to it. Thanks to @freya.bsky.social and her latest video for reminding me about it.
ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consulta...

03.01.2025 13:13 — 👍 45    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 1

A flat, sandy beach at low tide on an overcast day

A meandering river estuary. There is a small floating pontoon with sail boats moored. The sky is partially cloudy.

A viaduct connecting two small green hills over a field. The sky is cloudy.

A small waterfall feeding a wider, shallow stream in a woodland.

🎊 Happy New Year 🎊

Enjoyed a rest at home with family. Let's see what 2025 brings!

01.01.2025 11:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fish Shell Outlines Their Successes & Challenges Going From C++ To Rust Earlier this month the Fish Shell 4.0 went into beta with the C++ code ported to Rust. Now with most of the Fish Shell code transitioned to Rust, the project put out a blog post this weekend outlining the successes and challenges they have encountered in porting their large C++ codebase to Rust...

Fish Shell Outlines Their Successes & Challenges Going From C++ To Rust - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fish-Shell-Rust-Challenges

29.12.2024 11:44 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A "Safe C++" Being Explored Using The New ClangIR An interesting "request for comments" proposal I have been meaning to write about since last month is in-development work developing "Safe C++" as an extension to the LLVM Clang compiler and making use of the new, in-development ClangIR...

A "Safe C++" Being Explored Using The New ClangIR - https://www.phoronix.com/news/RFC-Safe-CXX-Using-ClangIR

28.12.2024 14:09 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

One of my favourite talks from Meeting C++ this year!

22.12.2024 20:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A large TV matrix in a car dealership is displaying a blue screen of death.

Spotted a @kevlin.bsky.social at my local garage

02.12.2024 10:08 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The two factions of C++ The dream of a single dialect-free C++ has probably been dead for many years, anyway.

"The two factions of C++" is a great read: herecomesthemoon.net/2024/11/two-...

26.11.2024 16:35 — 👍 15    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

A road by the edge of a green forest. The verges and stone walls on each side of the road are dusted with snow.

The centre of an English village. A war memorial is raised above a snowy green

A road through a village with high stone walls. The floor is littered with autumn leaves.

An entry road into a English village. In the background, a stone house peeks above a snow covered wall.

A snowy autumnal lunchtime walk - the fringe benefits of a rural office 🍁🌨️

19.11.2024 17:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0