Building Rust: an interview with Nell Shamrell-Harrington

Charlie Marsh is the founder of Astral, the company behind Python’s fastest code formatter: ruff. Astral is also the home of the open source uv and rye projects, which make installing Python packages much faster than they have been with pip. In the interview, Charlie discusses many things, in…

Summary The episode explores Rob‘s views on open source maintenance, along with many interesting side quests relating to modern software development. We start the discussion by talking about Rob’s journey to becoming a maintainer of Actix Web, a web framework written in Rust. This moves…

This interview discusses erosion of human connection in tech and the importance of designing tools that empower individuals and communities. Hear how programming languages like Rust and Haskell are shaping a more hopeful, and perhaps even more wholesome, future.

Zeeshan Ali Khan is the maintainer of the zbus crate, a pure Rust implementation of the D-Bus protocol. Zeeshan has been around Linux and embedded/mobile Linux for a long time – even moving to Finland to work for Nokia before the company moved to Windows Phone. The interview starts with creat…