Scott Gerring

Worth a read: Thomas Kowalski and @scottgerring.com from @datadoghq.com write about building an async-aware profiler for Python. Also: flowengineering.com raised a $50M Series B. And @neo4j.com is hiring a Software Engineering on the clustering & distributed systems team in London. Links in bio

"STOP DECOUPLING YOUR TRADE FROM OURS OR I WILL GIVE YOU A REASON TO DECOUPLE YOUR TRADE FROM OURS!!111" is my favourite episode so far

If you're building a modern application, chances are you need to think about identity Sometimes, you even need to give your machines identities so they can login. What's the smartest way to manage that in 2026? Come find out with @scottgerring.com and me. youtu.be/qwuLB44RMrk #softwaredevelopment

Tim Heidecker taking over infowars is what I needed www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnz6...

Serverless! What does it even mean anymore? Find out with @scottgerring.com and me. youtu.be/CNBbqYwB9Fw

as far as coding agents go, pi is amazing. The malleability of the thing. I would _love_ to see a serious IDE built with the same "foundational primitives + easy extensibility" in mind

Whenever someone refers to "their clanker" on PR feedback etc. it warms my heart

@crawshaw.io of tailscale fame building a cloud because stacks of bespoke abstractions on stacks of bespoke abstractions kinda suck is .... legit interesting?! crawshaw.io/blog/buildin...

Calimera #dvgr26 !

Confession: I've been using **light mode** in RustRover and I ... don't hate it. Time to retire?

12factor !

10 Things Rust Could Learn from Java (and 5 Things Java Should Probably Steal Back) by @scottgerring.com devoxx.co.uk/talk/?id=4260 Fun with Flags: Feature Flagging Without the Pain by @aepfli.bsky.social devoxx.co.uk/talk/?id=5784

@bcantrill.bsky.social 's take on <screams> GENERATIVE AI CODING ASSISTANTS </screams> is refreshingly nuanced! bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

Protip: stop reading new the news and listen to gizz instead www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ycw...

Excited to pop over the pond to talk about Rust & Java in just over a month @devoxx.uk !

There's nothing like the smell of `docker system prune` in the morning

It reflects well on a society when folks can unironically write songs like “Rasputin”

Clawdbot too powerful/terrifying for you? Introducing Geoff - a boring alternative - built _just for me_. Maybe all this AI vibe coding furor can usher back in the dream of PERSONAL computing - tools built by regular folk to scratch their own, particular itches.

It’s time for another blog on #systems engineering - this time about calling conventions - how do compilers emit machine code that let functions call each other, when the underlying CPU architecture has no concept of functions? Not sooo useful for building REST APIs, but nonetheless interesting :)

I switched a bunch of stuff I was running in the #homelab from k3s to plain old docker-compose, and dropped from 20% idle CPU usage to < 4%. CPU now spending about 80% of of its time in C7! I don't _need_ k8s for this stuff, and power is expensive, so ....

Thrilled to announce chapter 09 of the Rust Lambda book. In this one, we cover all things observability. If you're struggling to really understand your serverless applications, this one's the one for you. @loige.co 👀 #serverless #rust #rustlang rust-lambda.com

James Eastham and my latest video on software dev is up! We try to distill down when it makes sense and when not to microservice, hopefully without alienating too many folks. Have a listen and let us know what you think!

Yup

Incy Wincy Spider is Sisyphus for kids

Anna’s Archive backing up all of Spotify is like a feel good version of the GenAI folks stealing everyone’s copyrighted content to train their models

@jameseastham.co.uk and I are back again talking about software engineering! This time, we dive into API-first design - what it's good for, and how you can get started with it. Let us know what you think! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-R...

Not sure anyone I know on here cares, but it brings me great sadness that Scott aren't producing tele boots anymore

US State Department abolishing use of "Calibri" in documents because it is quote too diverse end quote is the most absurdly The Onion news I have read this year, and that is saying something

The season of having my heart continuously broken by the snow forecast is upon us

Congrats to our APM team on the preview release of dd-trace-rs! Now we have a nice opinionated datadog tracer for Rust folks 🥰 github.com/DataDog/dd-t...

xkcd.com/3172/ ❤️

Zig’s moving to codeberg from github because of entshitification ! Proverbial canary ? ziglang.org/news/migrati...

@jameseastham.co.uk and I have released the inaugural _second episode_ (coughs loudly) of our video series on modern software development - this time on James' favourite thing, **Event Storming** - a great tool to dive into a domain you're about to build something in!

So ... the top is in?

Come listen to @jameseastham.co.uk and I ramble about software architecture!

Had a great time at @vdthess.bsky.social over the last few days talking about software quality. Enormous thanks to Pat and the rest of the organisers for putting on a great event!

Kalimera! #vdthess25

This is clever realization - you can use XDP also for fast **egress** by cleverly using veth pairs - #ebpf community continues to do wildly novel things ! loopholelabs.io/blog/xdp-for...

Gotta say it’s nice to wake up and see some hopeful news from across the pond

Google Slides diff view is surprisingly good? You can click through changes, and you get a big coloured box around what shifted. ... I kinda assume decent diffing was never gonna be a thing for presentations that _aren't_ written in some md/js framework

Great summary of the vim->helix move. As a very long term vi user and relatively recent helix enthusiast this nicely summarises my xp jumping over

So this is fucking gross - the US is trying to pressure the EU, again with the threat of tariffs, to water down their environmental regulations. :surprised_pikachu: archive.is/Gh5JC#select...

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

"look up and stay present" .. by "collaborating with visual Meta AI prompts" projected between your eyes and the folks _in the real world you are notionally trying to stay present with_. I don't understand if they are trying to redefine what 'present' means or they are just too deep in this rubbish