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@Mara Ahh that explains the additional 20 cents (it was 199.2)

Nice to see that you were able to lower it for everyone to that.
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@Mara I was about to ask if it was lowered since the announcement/start of sale at RustWeek, but at least going by my invoice it was 199 then as well
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@ma3ke I hope that it lives up to your expectations :D
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This blog post is bit of a culmination about me thinking about `n..` ranges in Rust for way too long time.

It is about why I think the current semantics for the iterator are wrong.

https://erk.dev/2026/08/30/rangefrom-part-2
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RustNL's Rust Maintainer Team has grown and now consists of 14 people, including three interns! ✨️

https://rustnl.org/maintainers/

Together, these people are either the author or a reviewer of more than 30% of all pull requests on the rust-lang/rust repository:

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@jyn This has for the past quite a few years been one of my big annoyances about git, every now and then I look at some historical commits and just gets a friends deadname shoved in my face which at least to me feels uncomfortable.

I think something like what you propose here would be good.

Maybe something like webfinger could also be used though then you bind yourself up on a domain.
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@jana I used to live like 50 meters away from there, its a nice area, look forward to the automatic organs playing nearby early every weekend :D
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My train is on the plan again after a long summer.

This cuts down my transport time down to less than half of what it has been the last few months. 🚂
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@ma3ke I am just imagining a big letterpress that runs continuously
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@freya Here the sun was free for clouds for the whole duration except the highpoint ±2 minutes :( though still got a nice view of it the rest of the time :)
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I have been thinking a lot about the RangeFrom type (n..) in Rust so I thought I would write up a bunch of history about to have somewhere to start a further discussion about it: https://erk.dev/2026/08/12/rangefrom-part-1
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I was asked recently about the cost of running a (#rustlang) conference and why the ticket prices are what they are. We figured we can just publicly share the numbers for RustWeek, in the name of . :)

RustWeek has many subevents (conference, hackathon, unconference, workshops, Rust All Hands, etc.), but I've tried to extract just the two day conference part of RustWeek 2026:

Venue rent: € ~50k
Lunch, snacks, drinks two full days: € ~130k (incl. catering services and exclusive access to 1000 person restaurant all day)
A/V services: € ~30k (incl. livestreaming, professionals operating the cameras/microphones/screens in the rooms, editing the recordings, etc.)
Stuff we set up at the venue: € ~20k (sponsor booths, entertainment, banners, stickers, wifi, etc.)
Travel compenstation for speakers: € ~10k
External services: € ~25k (accounting, registration & payment, event management, insurance, etc.)
Miscelaneous: € ~15k

This adds up to roughly € 280k for just the two conference days. (The total for all of RustWeek is ~€ 400k.)

The money we get from sponsors covers roughly half of the costs. The other half has to be covered by tickets.

We are currently the biggest Rust conference with 850+ attendees. We give free tickets to all the speakers and volunteers, which is almost a hundred people total. The sponsor packages also include a total of roughly 100 tickets. That leaves ~650 sold tickets.

Those are roughly 250 corporate tickets (~410 euro after tax), 300 individual tickets (~190 euro after tax), and 100 student tickets (~30 euro after tax). Accounting for the various discounts (early bird, discount codes, etc.) and overhead, this leaves us with roughly 140k.

Those student tickets are sold at a significant loss, but it's very important to us to not just run this conference for those with a well paid job.

Setting the ticket prices is very tricky, because you have to set them a year in advance, before you know what amount of sponsorship to expect. We only find out *after* the event if we guessed correctly or if we ran at a loss. This year, we made a (very small) profit, which we'll spend on our Rust Maintainers Team: https://rustnl.org/maintainers/

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SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst

Gudskelov for Wikipedia!
Vi er glade for åbenhed, og i de sidste 15 år har SMK haft stor glæde af Wikipedia. Samlingen er fornemt repræsenteret, og har igennem årene bevæget sig ud på over 9.000 forskellige opslag på det store, fælles onlineleksikon.
Hvilke værker bruges mest? Tak for spørgsmålet, for vi har netop kigget dybt i statistikken. Og det drejer sig om:

🖼️ Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, Titanernes fald, 1588 – 1590.
🖼️Nicolai Abildgaard, Hamlet hos sin moder, 1776 – 1779
🖼️C.A. Lorentzen, Dannebrog falder ned fra himlen under Volmerslaget ved Lyndanisse (Tallin) i Estland den 15. juni 1219, 1809
🖼️ Henri Matisse, Selvportræt, 1906

Samlet vises SMK-kunst omkring 2.2 millioner gange om måneden på Wikipedia 👌

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@ma3ke The diffraction makes the lights very pretty, it nearly makes it seem unreal. Great photos!
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@maya I feel like I always went the complete different direction where every year when it sounded I would down a research hole and read up on it everywhere I could. To this day I still look after the sirens when I am walking around.
But I can see how they are possible to find scary if you don't know about it, I was a bit surprised the first time I heard them in the Netherlands, but I had some coworkers who could tell me that it was normal.
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@ma3ke In Denmark they are only tested once per year with sound, when I lived in NL I remember that we used it as the lunch alarm (well the one day per month) which it works well as.
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@maya Its such a great way, its how I have been learning Linux for the past decade :P
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@maya that is when the withdrawal symptoms begin to show
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