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Dirkjan Ochtman

djc@hachyderm.io

<p>Fan of Rust, open source maintainer.</p>

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  • Post #3902640

    So Mozilla is spending some of its revenue on sponsoring a football club now?

  • Post #3902639

    I suppose asking for new contributors on a popular programming language blog is equivalent to inviting a slop tsunami.

  • Post #3902638

    @cliffle FWIW, your blog&amp;#39;s TLS certificate seems to have expired.

  • Post #3902637

    On my trusty M1 Max, a tiny test crate with graviola 0.4 as its single dependency runs clean `cargo check` 1.31x faster than with sha2 0.11, and clean `cargo build` 1.11x faster.

  • Post #2436424

    RE: https://hachyderm.io/@cpu/116540975829340357 Early incident report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2038351

  • Post #1758932

    From an LLD maintainer: “wild is worth calling out separately: its user time is comparable to lld&amp;#39;s but its system time is roughly half, and its parse phase is 4-8x faster than either of the C++ linkers.” https://maskray.me/blog/2026-04-12-recent-lld-elf-performance-improvements (Via @llvmweekly.)

  • Post #1758931

    After 13 months of work, today we released Hickory DNS 0.26.0 (our memory-safe DNS libraries and server), which should be more robust, faster and easier to use correctly. Detailed release notes are here: https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns/releases/tag/v0.26.0

  • Post #1758930

    Wow, Bluesky is not having a good day today.

  • Post #1377984

    Very cool to see that Google is using Hickory DNS (which I help maintain) to power DNS message parsing in the Pixel firmware! https://security.googleblog.com/2026/04/bringing-rust-to-pixel-baseband.html?m=1

  • Post #1077812

    An update on rustls performance: it’s still pretty fast. https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/26q1-rustls-performance/