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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · 14h

#Ubuntu 25.10 released, switching all basic commands like `ls`, `sudo`, `cd`, `cat`, ... to pure #Rustlang implementations. canonical.com/blog/canonic...

Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka | Canonical

The latest interim release of Ubuntu comes with compatibility enhancements at the silicon level, accessibility upgrades and a robust security posture that sets the stage for the next LTS. October 9, 2...

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · 3d

🔖MapLibre September 2025 Newsletter is out!

Highlights: tackling tech debt in Maputnik, iOS support in Flutter, Martin marching toward v1.0, & onboarding Spatial K.

👉 Read more: maplibre.org/news/2025-10...

#MapLibre #OpenSource #FOSS4G #Openstreetmap

MapLibre Newsletter September 2025

The MapLibre Organization is an umbrella for open-source mapping libraries.

maplibre.org

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · 6d

My #RustConf '25 talk has posted! The story of adapting #rustlang at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies ...

Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...
Rust jobs @ RVT: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RIx...

Yuri Astrakhan: "Adapting Rust @ Rivian Cars: Coolest Tech to the Next-Gen EVs" | RustConf 2025

YouTube video by Rust Foundation

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · 10d

A list of 🦀 Rust-friendly jobs at Rivian VW Tech has posted! US West coast and Belgrade are preferred, but exceptional candidates might be remote! The list will be kept up to date.

docs.google.com/document/d/e...

#rustlang #rivian

Rust Engineering Opportunities at RV Tech

docs.google.com

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · 14d

Who wants to work on some Rust code related to mapping and c++?

MapLibre @maplibre.org · 16d

📱Join the #maplibrenative Hackathon!

Hack on the Native codebase with expert guidance & showcase your work at the Nov monthly meeting!

🗓️ Kick-off: Oct 27 | Office Hours: Nov 3 & 10
✍ Sign up: tinyurl.com/maplibre-nat...

#maplibre #opensource #hackathon #OpenStreetMap #foss4g

MapLibre Native Hackathon

We are organizing a MapLibre Native Hackathon! This is your chance to hack on the MapLibre Native codebase, while getting guidance from expert contributors. Anything goes: use the new proposed plugin...

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Aug 19

My first #RustConf presentation!

RustConf @rustconf.com · Aug 18

Rust is hitting the road! 🚗 At #rustconf25, explore how it’s accelerating automotive tech with talks on adapting Rust for @Rivian cars and other personal transportation. Sept 2-5 in Seattle. Register: ti.to/rustconf/202...

#rustconf #rustlang #EVtech

RustConf 2025

RustConf 2025 | Seattle, WA & Online, Sept 2-5, 2025

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Jul 23

🇳🇿 Please support MapLibre and other fun FOSS4G talks you want to hear, either in-person or later as video recordings.

---- My shameless self-promotion 😊
* MapLibre - from data to tile rendering, in one status update
* Tile serving with MapLibre/Martin/Planetiler - base and overlays Workshop

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎉 Major @maplibre.org success: @rivianofficial.bsky.social integrates a commercial map data source (Google) with the Open Source map visualization stack (MapLibre), offering flexibility and styling consistency across multiple platforms, while avoiding vendor lock-in

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Also as part of this Rivian Navigation with Google Maps we've elected to | Colin Crenshaw

Also as part of this Rivian Navigation with Google Maps we've elected to adapt MapLibre to our needs allowing us to quickly iterate and optimize for our specific hardware. We were able to increase...

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Jun 23

My #rustconf session details this September

RustConf @rustconf.com · Jun 18

🎤 #rustconf Session Announcement: Yuri Astrakhan (@nyurik.bsky.social)
“Adapting Rust @ Rivian Cars: Coolest Tech to the Next-Gen EVs”
→ rustconf.com/schedule/#1463
#rustlang

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thanks to everyone who came to see us at @stateofthemapus.bsky.social in Boston! I am not certain if there will be a recording, but the slides are here docs.google.com/presentation...

2025-06 MapLibre @ SOTMUS Boston

Yuri Astrakhan @nyuriks Bart Louwers @louwers CC BY 2.0 State of Map Data OpenStreetMap, Style OpenMapTiles

docs.google.com

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Jun 16

#HurfRust - the re-implemented project of the ubiquitous text (font) shaping engine #HurfBuzz has released its first v0.1.0 with heavy Google/Chrome support! RIIR :)
github.com/harfbuzz/har...

GitHub - harfbuzz/harfrust: Port of RustyBuzz to use Fontations

Port of RustyBuzz to use Fontations. Contribute to harfbuzz/harfrust development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Jun 10

I will be honored to present at RustConf 2025!

RustConf @rustconf.com · Jun 10

🎉 Speaker lineup announced!

RustConf 2025 is bringing together some of the most exciting voices in Rust — from global adopters to project maintainers to AI researchers and beyond.

Explore the full speaker list → rustconf.com/speakers

Full program and registration to come!
@rustfoundation.org

Speakers Archive - RustConf 2025

Meet our RustConf 2025 speakers!

rustconf.com

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Apr 16

For FOSS, I use pre-commit.ci - which is technically a "post-commit" (as it adds another commit to your GitHub PR for simple things like `cargo fmt`, missing trailing newline, spaces, or any other custom 3rd-party provided linter. Much better than requiring all users to get paper cuts with fmt

pre-commit.ci

Developers spend a fair chunk of time during their development flow on fixing relatively trivial problems in their code. pre-commit.ci both enforces that these issues are discovered (which is opt-in f...

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Jakub Nowosad @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · Apr 13

Updated the GitHub repo with a list of Geospatial Conferences 2025 🌍

Covers events on GIS, remote sensing, and more.

Browse the list and improve it here: https://github.com/Nowosad/conferences_2025

#geospatial #gischat #remotesensing #geo2025

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Apr 12

Rename any C++ items, including enum values, in bindgen. Pending review - github.com/rust-lang/ru...

allow renaming rules for C enums, structs, and typedefs by nyurik · Pull Request #3191 · rust-lang/rust-bindgen

Add utilities to rename, change case, and fix Rust code generated from the C headers. Renamer implements a bindgen callback trait. It handles struct/enum/typedef type renames with a string->stri...

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Apr 7

Fascinating state of #rustlang at Microsoft by @markrussinovich.bsky.social (Azure CTO)
Key takeaways: Rust is at every level of the stack, from UEFI to kernel/VMs to services to apps. Significant performance gain over C++ without even trying, productivity, security…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vgp...

Microsoft is Getting Rusty: A Review of Successes and Challenges - Mark Russinovich

YouTube video by Rust Nation UK

www.youtube.com

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Apr 7

Performance link: spatialists.ch/posts/2025/0...

Serving vector tiles, fast – spatialists.ch – geospatial news

Want to serve #VectorTiles to your users? Fabian Rechsteiner’s benchmark pits six open-source servers (#BBOX, #ldproxy, #Martin, #pg_tileserv, #Tegola, #TiPg) against each other, revealing stark speed...

spatialists.ch

Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Apr 7

Martin v0.16 is out, now supporting style sheet serving, plus nemerous other features and bug fixes... On top of that, Martin has been found to be the fastest map tile server! github.com/maplibre/mar...

Release v0.16.0 · maplibre/martin

Major Changes Support for style serving, allowing Martin to host MapLibre style files. What's Changed Fix test by @sharkAndshark in #1642 Ignore features ordering in test by @sharkAndshark in #1...

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Mar 4

🚀 MapLibre February 2025 Updates – New Community Spotlight, MLT advancements, and expanded monthly meetings!
📅 Read more: maplibre.org/news/2025-03...

#OpenStreetMap #MapLibre #OpenSource #GIS

MapLibre Newsletter February 2025

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Mar 4

Finally something I can use with my Tesla!

Cameron Wheeler 🏳️‍🌈 @heycameron.com · Mar 3

New product in my Etsy store!
A way for Tesla owners to show their only driving their Tesla until the new Rivian R2 & R3 roll out next year 😜
heycameron.etsy.com/listing/1882...

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · Feb 28

You can believe that the secret service just lets random people walk into the oval office without credentials

Or you can believe that someone in the WH wanted TASS in that room

There is actually no wiggle room here

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Feb 28

This is a bigger scandal than people realize.

It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance.

If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was.

Putin.

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Feb 27

All the #FastPFOR and related compression algorithms are now available in #Rust . Currently as a C++ wrapper, but eventually we hope to have pure Rust implementations as well. Thx to @lemire.bsky.social and @jjcfrancisco.bsky.social! crates.io/crates/fastp...

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Feb 27

A Clippy lint to simplify Rust format expressions is being voted on to become "style". I think it improves code readability and eliminates some bugs. Please vote rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/chann...

Public view of rust-lang | Zulip team chat

Browse the publicly accessible channels in rust-lang without logging in.

rust-lang.zulipchat.com

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Feb 20

Rust v1.85 is out! Clippy now allows 3rd party crates to tag format!-like macros, like `log::warn!`, so any code misusing them will now be linted too. It only took me 2 years to get it working :) github.com/rust-lang/ru...

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