Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson

Author of Hands-on Rust. Rust Trainer at Ardan Labs. Consultant with Bracket Productions and iZones. Rust Series Expert at PragProg.

[Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus]

I haven't received my author's copies yet, but Amazon just notified me that the print edition of Advanced Hands on Rust is now available. https://t.co/bo79fNJmOQ

You can also buy the ebook from Pragprog right now, 50% off with the coupon code "save 50"
#rust

[Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus]

The range/copy improvement should make it harder to mess up by mistake, a nice and tidy little update.

[Rust Jobs 🦀 @rustjobs_dev]

🦀 Rust 1.96.0 is out!

Link to the full release notes in the comments below 👇

[Rust Bytes 🦀 @rustaceans_rs]

Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl

[LibreQoS @LibreQoS]

Today! <3 #LibreQoS #bufferbloat #latency #jitter #QoE #QoS #QualityOfExperience #broadband #ISP

[PragmaticProgrammers @pragprog]

The Spring Sale Continues!
50% off with code Spring2026
This week: Expand Your Mindset

Links in Thread

[PragmaticProgrammers @pragprog]

@risk_first @AdamTornhill @pragdave Network Programming in Elixir and Erlang
@whatyouhide
https://t.co/rxRoeW3ncN

Effective Haskell
Rebecca Skinner
https://t.co/VLmTXLQUJs

Advanced Hands-on Rust
@herberticus
https://t.co/TthihfJZof

[ayush🔮👨‍💻🔮 @ayushagarwal027]

Rust + databases just got better. SQLx 0.9.0 is out. 🦀

Highlights:
→ New sqlx.toml config : multi-database and multi-tenant setups made easy
→ SqlSafeStr trait : SQL injection safety baked into the type system
→ smol & async-global-executor runtime support
→ SQLite extension loading at compile-time
→ MySQL collation bug finally fixed
→ Repo moving to a new org: https://t.co/JLqTvWoDYz

🔗 https://t.co/fC1A7XB2T5

#Rust #RustLang #SQLx #Database #OpenSource #BackendDevelopment

[Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus]

Time to rename a bunch of curriculum stuff, but good news!

[Viacheslav Biriukov @brk0v]

🦀 Rust Big News: tonic is joining the official gRPC project

hyperium/tonic becomes grpc/grpc-rust

• stronger long-term maintenance
• Google/LinkedIn/Datadog involved
• xDS support via tonic-xds
• better path for production Rust gRPC

https://t.co/4w6vdn5k8k
#rust #rustlang

[Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus]

@Milkmeray That happens surprisingly often. When I lived in northern England, the fish'n'chip shops in the area had "American chip spice". I've yet to find anything like it in the US.

[Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus]

@missrobinson You can buy similar under different names. A lot of people here insist on buying double sided tape pads (single use) instead.

[RustRover, a JetBrains IDE @rustrover]

Rust turns 11 today 🦀🎉

A lot has changed since 1.0, but the story is still being written.

From the first stable release to today, Rust has grown into a language shaped by curiosity, careful design, and a community that keeps raising the bar for software.

What’s on your Rust birthday wish list? 🎁 Tell us in the comments.

[Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus]

@exQUIZitely My first OS (I actually helped my father with punch cards before we got a computer at home)

[Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus]

This is a fantastic feature!

[RustRover, a JetBrains IDE @rustrover]

In large Rust codebases, 'Find Usages' gives you a list. But a list doesn't tell you how execution flows through trait methods and concrete implementations.

Call Hierarchy in RustRover does.

Navigate call chains step by step, see exactly how a function gets reached, and understand the path, not just the references.

Find more about it here 👇
https://t.co/zuMC2gxL4j

#NewInRustRover

[Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus]

@thsottiaux Linux, via the project on GitHub that rewraps it in Linux electron.

[LibreQoS @LibreQoS]

Our colleague @herberticus was on Roundabout: Creative Chaos Podcast EP 145 to talk about #Rust 🦀, #LibreQoS, #bufferbloat, #OpenSource, #latency and more:

https://t.co/yqGnNHLJvz

#RustLang #latency #ISP #QoE #broadband #jitter
#Malawi #JetBrains #FQ_CoDel #RFC8290 #QoS

[Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus]

@notpuang I have some tutorial videos up on Ardan Labs, as does Nathan Stocks. The trick is to write high level Rust first, before you dive into the details - it's a pretty comfy high level language. You really only need to get into the scary stuff later - or if you hit performance needs.

[Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus]

@DanielSmidstrup Refactoring and bug fixes.

[Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus]

I'm also 0 for 3 on /goal. All 3 function, and all 3 skipped specified steps. Still getting far better results with a PRD, small steps and verifying each one.

Or just writing the code, which is more fun anyway.

[Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus]

Gpt5.5 is a strange model. It can get things working from a vague outcome (usually with obvious holes). Give it a detailed algorithm for what you want, and half the time it decides it knows better - and makes something far worse. 5.2 xhigh is still my preference.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This is the the quote I've been citing a lot recently.

[Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus]

Eliminating whole categories of bugs is awesome - doesn't mean you can forget the others, but still awesome!

[ayush🔮👨‍💻🔮 @ayushagarwal027]

🦀 A security audit just taught the Rust community something valuable.

Canonical audited uutils, the Rust rewrite of GNU coreutils shipping in Ubuntu and found 44 vulnerabilities.

Not one CVE was:
- Buffer overflow
- Use-after-free
- Data race
- Null pointer dereference

For context : GNU coreutils had ALL of these in just the last 3 years.

So what kind of bugs did Rust miss?

Logic bugs at OS boundaries:
→ Race conditions between syscalls (TOCTOU)
→ Path string != filesystem identity
→ UTF-8 where bytes were needed
→ Errors swallowed instead of propagated
→ Diverging from GNU's exact behavior

📖 Full breakdown → https://t.co/Akf0ZTJkGH

#Rust #RustLang #Security #SystemsProgramming #OpenSource