May

via Rust Weekly 🦀 (@rust_discussions@mastodon.social): Building a dynamically-linked plugin system in Rust

Micah Wylde walks through how Arroyo, a real-time SQL engine, supports user-defined functions in a language that really wants to produce static binaries. He weighs scripting languages, out-of-process RPC, and Wasm before landing on dynamically-linked shared libraries with a C ABI, then digs into the details of designing safe FFI types and interfaces. A great read if you’ve ever wondered how to make a Rust program extensible at runtime.

A Changelog & Friends episode on self-hosted media servers — Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and the rest — and why keeping your own library still beats renting from streaming services. A good listen if you’re thinking about reclaiming your media from the cloud.

Linear is repositioning itself as “the product development system for teams and agents” — issue tracking, planning, and triage built around workflows shared by humans and AI agents. Worth a look if you’re thinking about how coding agents fit into an existing project management practice (and, as always, the design and performance polish of the product itself is exemplary).

via Axel Rauschmayer (@rauschma@fosstodon.org): Monolith lets you download a complete web page as a single HTML file—by inlining images etc.

Monolith is a Rust CLI tool that bundles an entire web page — CSS, images, JavaScript, fonts and all — into a single self-contained HTML file with no external dependencies. A handy way to archive pages that might not survive the next site redesign or link rot purge.

via Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: (@janl@narrativ.es): Well, officially in the market for a Slack replacement now. Hit me. What are you personally happy with in a small business setting, strong macOS/iOS support, user friendly, including nontechnical folks?

via Rust Weekly 🦀 (@rust_discussions@mastodon.social): Blazingly Fast Linked Lists

Linked lists are usually an interview trivia question rather than a practical tool, but Dmitry Dygalo shows a case where they genuinely beat Vec: tracking the current location during JSON Schema validation so errors can point at the exact spot in the instance. The post walks through a series of optimizations drawn from real work on the jsonschema crate, measuring the impact of each step.

A short segment near the end of Tim Ferriss’s conversation with Craig Foster (of My Octopus Teacher) about how to approach debates on contentious political issues. The advice — lead with genuine curiosity rather than the intent to win — applies just as well to technical disagreements as political ones.