We take a "Rust-only tools" challenge for a week and admit what worked, and what sucked. Plus, a surprise guest.

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Why I left Rust
LinuxFest Northwest 2023
LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Call for Speakers
GrapheneOS on Twitter — GrapheneOS will be undergoing restructuring of the organization and development team. Daniel Micay has stepped down as lead developer and will be stepping down as a non-profit director. Features and security patches will continue to be delivered to users as rapidly as before.
Daniel Micay on Twitter — It appears the wording above was unclear. I'm stepping down as a GrapheneOS Foundation director and as lead developer. I won't have any leadership role in the GrapheneOS project. It will take time/work to transfer my responsibilities to others, especially non-development roles.
Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora
Adopting Bitcoin 2023
LUP on in the top 10 charts TWICE.
Bitcoin Dad Pod
Polaris — Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device.
Polaris Demo
docker-polaris: Small docker of Polaris based on Alpine Linux
Polaris on Google Play
Polaris Android on F-Droid
Polarios on App Store
Lapce — Lapce is written in pure Rust with a UI in Druid (which is also written in Rust). It is designed with Rope Science from the Xi-Editor which makes for lightning-fast computation, and leverages OpenGL for rendering.
Lapce on Flathub
Lapce packaged in Nix
Lapce Plugins
flosse/text-editors-written-in-rust
xi-editor: A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
awesome-alternatives-in-rust: A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust
awesome-rust: A curated list of Rust code and resources.
BitFocus Companion — Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for a huge amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Alby
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Pick: Please Run That — A Python socket app for letting a friend execute a command on your system without using a ssh server all, with a simple GUI It has active development and works OOTB.
Pick: turtle — Turtle is a gtk4 + libadwaita frontend for pygit2 with nautilus plugin support. The project is currently in a very early development stage.

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