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Alex Snaps

@alex.wcgw.dev

When I grow up, I want to be a computer scientist… until then, I write open source code with Red Hat - previously Shopify, Moog Music, Terracotta & others

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From where I stand…
now I wouldn’t trade neither 😜

13.02.2026 17:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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FOSDEM 2026 - Common Expression Language (CEL) in Rust

My #fosdem talk on CEL in #rust is up

fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

12.02.2026 21:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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12.02.2026 13:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And yes, your stream got suggested to me by YouTube. I saw rust, antlr … had to check it out!

08.02.2026 21:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yeah. Please file an issue! Now I’ll be honest, performance isn’t an issue from where I’m coming at it (and how I took this over and started fixing things). So no promises I’d actually get to it. PR are always welcome tho ;)

08.02.2026 21:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Made it. #fosdem

31.01.2026 08:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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FOSDEM 2026 - Rust

In Brussels for #fosdem at the end of the month? Say hi! I’ll be in the #rust dev room on Sunday talking about cel-rust

fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

16.01.2026 14:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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wcgwdev - Twitch we might get some coding done here... eventually

In today’s episode we’ll give a shot at implementing `Opaque` values in the cel-rust interpreter. Which would then also let us add support for `Optional`… let’s see how far we can get. But fairly confident we’ll cover the former in today’s stream.

twitch.tv/wcgwdev

14.11.2025 12:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hope to see some of you tomorrow for this very first session. You might need to be indulgent… looking forward to chatting tho!

06.11.2025 19:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Twitch Twitch is the world

Alright… let me try something new. Well, new to me that is!

twitch.tv/wcgwdev

03.11.2025 19:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Power Dynamics, Rug Pulls, and Other Corporate Impacts on OSS Sustainability - Dawn Foster, CHAOSS
Power Dynamics, Rug Pulls, and Other Corporate Impacts on OSS Sustainability - Dawn Foster, CHAOSS YouTube video by The Linux Foundation

Power Dynamics, Rug Pulls, and Other Corporate Impacts on OSS Sustainability - Dawn Foster, CHAOSS

youtu.be/1-2L9DLFc8A?...

08.09.2025 10:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Is joy key to #DeveloperProductivity? @hollycummins.com & @trishagee.bsky.social say YES!

Discover how embracing curiosity & cutting friction can boost your output.

Joy isn't a distraction - it's a superpower!

📰 Read now: bit.ly/3T87imb

‬ #DeveloperExperience #Productivity

05.06.2025 13:04 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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My favourite Quarkus 3.20+ feature:

quarkus ext add quarkus-opentelemetry
otel-tui

start your app and now your terminal has traces, metrics and logs :)

20.05.2025 06:53 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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buzz lightyear from toy story is flying through the air with the words and beyond behind him ALT: buzz lightyear from toy story is flying through the air with the words and beyond behind him
15.05.2025 01:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Yeah. It got old… to you all. Not to me.
I still enjoy this graphic design… probably just a #rust dad joke by now…. I don’t care ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks @lambdaconf.bsky.social for having me. This was an awesome experience that I know wished I had had sooner.

14.05.2025 21:24 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

On my way to the last @lambdaconf.bsky.social ever 😢

Looking forward to it tho!

09.05.2025 14:31 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🔴 Rust Week Live - RustWeek 2025 RustWeek 2025, The Netherlands - May 13 - 17 2025

Can't attend RustWeek? We've got you covered with a livestream!
rustweek.org/live/tuesday/

#RustWeek #rustlang #livestream

09.05.2025 09:30 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use | The CLion Blog CLion, a JetBrains IDE, is now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.

Oh that is good news of hobbyists !

@jetbrains.com CLion is now free for Non-Commercial Use!

blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/0...

I still wish to have some form of C/CPP out in @intellijidea.com, but that’s a different beast.

07.05.2025 15:15 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

🤣

04.04.2025 18:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
P99 CONF 2024 | 1BRC – Nerd Sniping the Java Community by Gunnar Morling
P99 CONF 2024 | 1BRC – Nerd Sniping the Java Community by Gunnar Morling Go to https://www.p99conf.io/ for P99 CONF talks on demand and to learn more.. . . . .Gunnar Morling dives into the tricks that the fastest 1BRC solutions us...

1BRC – Nerd Sniping the Java Community

Nice summary from last years 1BRC challenge by Gunnar Morling. It's so great to see the applied tricks to go from high level readable Java to low level performance Java.

02.04.2025 12:56 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
hello, world + Bluesky logo and Rust Foundation logo with Ferris the crab between them

hello, world + Bluesky logo and Rust Foundation logo with Ferris the crab between them

hello, world!

The Rust Foundation is excited to join you on this new (to us!) platform. We plan to exclusively share social media content here, Mastodon, & LinkedIn for the foreseeable future.

You can also follow @rustconf.com — they'll have lots of important news to share about #rustconf soon 🦀

21.03.2025 16:41 👍 280 🔁 57 💬 6 📌 2

… and it’s running here locally

17.03.2025 11:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Running SQLite in Pure Java with Quarkus Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java

Its been awesome to see the work Andrea and co. been doing with WASM using Chicory. Latest is enabling sqllite to run in raw jvm bytecode and native-image.

quarkus.io/blog/sqlite4...

Also works with jdbc@maxandersen: gist.github.com/maxandersen/...

13.03.2025 10:29 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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Let’s do that one. In a 1:1. Was just discussing that one with a friend of ours

09.03.2025 05:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Comparing Apache, CNCF, and Commonhaus | cnr.sh I've used open source projects for over 30 years and contributed for about 20 of those. My first interaction with an open source foundation was with Apache when I began working with Apache Hadoop ...

cnr.sh/posts/compar...

06.03.2025 18:09 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

What? What did you say?! 😜

27.02.2025 14:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Communication They can’t hear you on mute.

"They can’t hear you on mute."

I was on mute publicly for the first twenty years of my career. I can't get that time back. All I can do is share as much as I can going forward. I hope once in a while writing that I share helps someone, somewhere, with something. 🙏
donraab.medium.com/communicatio...

15.02.2025 22:40 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Renew Your Mind | LambdaConf 2025 LambdaConf is a multi-disciplinary developer conference featuring talks and workshops on functional programming, distributed systems, AI, DevOps, and more.

I’ll be in Estes Park, CO for LambdaConf this coming May. Looking forward to be attending this conference for the first time!

www.lambdaconf.us

So of you wanna talk Rust & Wasm or generally geek out, I’ll be waiting for you there!

13.02.2025 12:54 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I think imma try this here now. Let’s see how that goes…

12.02.2025 23:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My 9yo at the time solved this back in 2015… just dig, she said!

23.01.2025 15:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0