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Fascinating how some users choose passive-aggressive entitlement for their very first interaction with Open Source maintainers. Kindness costs nothing. We’re humans, not a support SLA 🫠.

Choose your dependencies wisely.

👋. Any other Open Source maintainer here getting tagged on GitHub by users with no public contributions on projects that you do not maintain, asking for you to look into the problem described? What the actual. Always happy to work for free!.

I'm astonished some users prefer non-standard (and IMHO noisy) Markdown syntax over plain HTML, with developers going to great lengths coming up with new syntax constructs. In what world is this [↑] better than this [↓]?

My single most effective method for solving complex problems that you're stuck on: going for a run. When I do this in the morning, solutions to problems just pop into my head, and my work day gets a head start. I don't listen to music, I just let the thinking happen.

Time and attention is all you got. Use it wisely. Build epic shit, do things you love. Money is only a means to an end and material things will not make you happy. Just my opinion.

Wow, all my reserved crates on just got deleted, and one is now used by somebody else. The usage policy of says that crates are FCFS and ownership transfer is not possible without approval of the owner. Did somebody experience this?.

Very sad to hear that Textual couldn't find a sustainable business model (yet?). It's so paradoxical – working in OSS, you can have a much bigger lever than working for a corporation, but most humans and companies are free-riders. OSS is just somebody else's problem.

Congrats to Sebastián and his awesome team! 🚀.

📣 Material for MkDocs Update. We're experimenting with alternative ways to manage our public issue tracker. From now on, change requests will be moved to our new public backlog, and prioritized according to our roadmap that we'll release soon ☺️ .

First measurement for the new preview server I've been working on as part of the foundational work on Material for MkDocs:. 🚀 50x more req/s than 'mkdocs serve'.🏗️ Extensible middleware architecture.🤏 Tiny, only very few dependencies. We're making good progress!

Look Ma, no macros! 🙌. If you need to work with mixed tuples in Rust (varying length and mixed types), the tuple_list crate is absolutely invaluable. It allows you to comfortably work with tuples in generics without writing a single macro.

It's surprising that in 2025, Hugo (Go) and Zola (Rust) remain the only widely-used static site generators with true parallel build capabilities. There's a clear opportunity here ☺️.

🐍+🦀 Debugging PyO3 with Visual Studio Code. I just created a demo project that shows how to debug Python and Rust in tandem – tricky, but absolutely worth it. It already supports Python scripts and tests. You can find it here:.

🚀 Material for MkDocs in-browser configurator by @d_bodky.

👋 Have two minutes spare?. You can help us test some changes we made to our templates to make it easier to explore alternative Jinja-compatible template engines like minijinja (Rust), allowing us to improve rendering performance 🚀.

RT @pawamoy: @coursera MkDocs is getting "test" PRs from Coursera learners, apparently. Looks like they're following this course: https://t….

Widespread phishing attack on GitHub.

Michael F. Bryan's blog is a treasure for Rustaceans:.

. and it's gone! 🎉