In thrive for world-betterment (in addition to fostering the competition), Martin and Chris are hosts to Allen Wyma and Marc Otto-Witte, two hosts of Rustacean Station, a podcast purely dedicated to Rust. Not the iron oxide of course, but rather the programming language originating from Mozilla all those years ago that almost took the world by stor…

Allen Wyma talks with Sam Van Overmeire about Write Powerful Rust Macros, a book about writing macros within your Rust apps. Manning discount code: podrustacean24 Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio …

In this episode our two FLOSS enthusiasts focus on free and open source software in the healthcare sector, a much debated subject as this can be close to life or death for some people. Even if you're not affected now, chances are you will be - whether that's a pace maker running on closed source software or some, in contrast, other medical device p…

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.71 and 1.72 releases of Rust. This episode was recorded as part of a YouTube live stream on2024-05-18, which you can stillwatch. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host…

Not mentioning the elephant in the room, Martin and Chris take a closer look the vital role FLOSS is playing in modern defence systems and as part of military technology in general. Although the topic is not for the faint-hearted, it still shows the important part of FLOSS when defending core values very close to open source software in general: li…

In this episode, Martin and Chris host Bernhard Stockmann, the brain and inventor of DAVx5, the central bridge between a *DAV server and any mobile device running Android and thus in bed the Google's approach to calendars (and much more such Contacts and WebDAV). So if even if you've never wondered how to access a CalDAV server from an Android phon…

Allen Wyma talks with Glen De Cauwsemaecker about Rama, a modular and customizable proxy built in Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Gi…

In this episode, Martin and Chris take a look at the darker side of FLOSS. Want to know what that is? Listen to the episode - all will be revealed. Plus: How to make cotton candy at home. Links Monkeys and floss: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-009-0159-9 Meat floss: https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/homemade-meat-floss Dance move: …

In this episode host Martin and Chris take a closer look at KDE, one of the leading Linux desktop environments. For this endeavour they are joined by no other than Joseph De Veaugh-Geiss, a long-standing KDE veteran, doubling as a community and project manager for a subproject of KDE Eco, concerned with the reduction of the power consumption of you…

Allen Wyma talks with Orhun Parmaksiz about Ratatui, a TUI library for Rust to create beautiful console-based applications in Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm D…

Allen Wyma talks with Robert Balicki about Isograph, a framework powered by Rust to speed up your React app development. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rus…

In this episode our two hosts discuss the recent license change in a NoSQL data base known a the Remote Dictionary Server, aka Redis. Given the fact that this podcast probably wouldn't exist without this company never mind code base (as Martin and Chris met at this company when it was still known as Redislabs), brace yourself for a riveting trip do…

Allen Wyma talks with Marco Ieni about release-plz, a CLI-based tool that helps you to release your Rust crates by generating changelogs and bumping the version of your crates. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a …

Allen Wyma talks with Luca Palmieri about Pavex, a new API-focused web framework for Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustac…

Vitaly Bragilevsky, Developer Advocate at JetBrains and author of Haskell in depth, sits down with Luca Palmieri. Vitaly explains what led JetBrains to launch a Rust-specific product, RustRover.He covers, in particular, why it is a good time to invest further in Rust, touching as well on the state of the Rust ecosystem. Luca and Vitaly also touch o…

In this episode Perl is the centre of discussion. Martin and Chris host Todd Rinaldo and Stuart Mackintosh of the Perl foundation who will explain the ins and outs of this programming language that still drive a significant portion of the Internet and other strange things. So if you want to know what's been hot for the 36 years in the area of scrip…

Allen Wyma talks with Predrag Gruevski about cargo-semver-checks, a linter that checks your crate’s API for any semver violations. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Di…

Allen Wyma talks with Sean McArthur about the 1.0 release of Hyper, the well-known Rust HTTP library. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Gith…

In this episode Martin and Chris take a closer look at OpenWrt, a Linux distro aimed at routers and other embedded devices. If you ever wondered about how to free your router from proprietary crap (aka vendor-issued router firmware), you don't want to miss this episode. Links OpenWrt: https://openwrt.org OpenWrt's LuCi: https://openwrt.org/docs/gui…

Allen Wyma talks with Carl Fredrik Samson about his book Asynchronous Programming in Rust, a deep dive into asynchronous programming in Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rus…

This episode is host to the XMPP Foundation. Eddie Maurer and Matthew Wild spill the beans on what the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (formerly known as Jabber) really is (and what it's not), its history, future and current state. So if you want to know on what protocol popular apps such WhatsApp (yes indeed), Grindr, Jitsi, Prosody and…

Now in its fourth year, this podcast has seen it all: The rise and demise of whole empires, the beloved competition fade into distant memory and a glorious appearance at last year's FOSDEM (Europe's biggest gathering of FLOSS enthusiasts), where actually more than five people showed up (thanks again to the ones attended on that Saturday afternoon i…

This episode introduces the Software Freedom Conservancy featuring Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn. Many people probably know the SFC from its FLOSS license verification (especially copyleft licenses) work but there's much more to this non-profit. Without stealing too much thunder - listen to the episode for the details! Links The Software Freedom C…

Allen Wyma talks with Marcin Kulik about his work on asciinema, a service that allows people to record their terminal windows to share with others, that has the custom asciinema player written in Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or …

Tim McNamara, author of Rust in Action and founder at Accelerant, sits down with Marco Otte-Witte. Tim discusses how Rust, despite common perceptions, is relatively easy to learn and how the compiler empowers engineers to avoid common mistakes. The conversation also emphasizes Rust’s growing adoption in companies, its role in addressing long-term m…

In this episode our two heroes shed light on real-time Linux and its applications. Due to the nature of the topic, the episode might sound a little bit more technical than our usual content but as we do cater for all audiences this also includes the geeks and nerd interested in the nitty-gritty details. So enjoy this episode at your own risk or can…

Allen Wyma talks with Josh Aas about his work on Prossimo, an Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) project that is focusing on moving critical software used on the Internet to a memory safe language, such as Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for…

An important part of the Redhat ecosystem are the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL). In this episode Martin and Chris talk to Carl and Julia, two Redhat people looking after EPEL among other things. So if you are interested in Redhat Linux, CentOS.* or even Fedora, you don't want to miss this episode. Plus as bonus content: a short intro i…

Allen Wyma talks with Ritchie Vink about his work on Polars, a DataFrame library written in Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: …

In this episode Martin and Chris host Florian Effensberger and Mike Saunders from The Documentation Foundation, home of the well-known office software known as LibreOffice. Links The Document Foundation: https://www.documentfoundation.org LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org MikeOS: https://mikeos.sourceforge.net Linux Voice: https://en.wikiped…

We made it. If you're reading this on your podcast player, you are listening to the 100 episode of your beloved podcast called Linux Inlaws. In this bumper episode, Martin and Chris will look back at almost four years of LI history, recount the highlights (and lowlights!) and shed some light things to come for the next 100 episode. Maybe. Plus a ve…

Stefan Baumgartner, Senior Product Architect at Dynatrace, discusses with Marco Otte-Witte how Rust enables developers to write performant and reliable software that’s efficient at a level that leads to substantial cost savings. Stefan shares his firsthand experience with Rust, highlighting the ecosystem’s ability when it comes to delivering functi…

This episode is host to Alex Hochgarten, a venture capitalist focussing on FLOSS start-ups among other things. Even if you're not a start-up looking for cash right now, you will find this episode more than interesting as it gives an overview of the venture capital funding process apart from other black magic; the chances, risks, ins and outs of the…

Allen Wyma talks with Cedric Sellmann about his experience with recuiting Rust engineers. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustace…

Allen Wyma talks with Gabor Szabo, who also runs Rust Maven, about his website Rust Digger which collects data about Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: R…

This show is all about the public sector. Yes, that money pit where all of your taxes vanish into for the greater good, mediocre services and fat pay checks for politicians. Or so it seems. But despair not, there's a silver lining at the horizon: Martin and Chris dive into the use of FLOSS in this area, shedding light on the good, the bad and the u…

In this episode host Annika and Werner from Tuxedo, a German PC vendor that ships their systems with a pure FLOSS stack installed instead of proprietary software. Topics of discussion include the origins of the company, their own distribution based on Ubuntu and some of the challenges with this approach. Links Tuxedo Computers: https://www.tuxedoco…

Rob Ede, lead maintainer of Actix Web, explains to Marco Otte-Witte how (and why) Kraken chose to migrate their microservices to Rust. They also discuss Rust’s web development ecosystem at large, with a particular focus on Actix Web: Rob shares his view on how improvements in the language and framework space will eventually lead to a future where w…

In this Halloween special Martin and Chris discuss the scariest moments and people in FLOSS history. No project, person or concept is safe from these in-depth revelations so don't miss this episode. Plus - as it's custom at this time of year - the Dark Side Tech Support makes another appearance when a lower deity rings with a technical problem. You…

Allen Wyma talks with Dave MacLeod about his book “Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches” from Manning. Rustacean Station discount code for the book: au35mac Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Tw…

In this episode Martin and Chris host Lars Wallenborn, a reverse engineer, software developer and podcast co-host. Topics covered include the use of FLOSS in IT security and how this can help to advance this field, general supply chain challenges from an IT security perspective with FLOSS and the resulting ramifications and other hot subjects in th…

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.70 and 1.71 releases of Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email…

Allen Wyma talks with Ian Ker-Seymer about his work on rb-sys which easily allows you to integrate Ruby with Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean…

In this episode, Martin and Chris host Shea, a long-time listener and first-time caller :-). In contrast to what you may believe listening to this episode, marketing had NO play whatsoever in bringing Shea on air and any of his opinions about the show, Linux in particular, the world in general - you get the idea - are entirely his and are not spons…

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.68 and 1.69 releases of Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email…

Marco Otte-Witte discusses how to pitch Rust to decision-makers with Joel Marcey, the Director of Technology at the Rust Foundation. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm …

IN this episode Martin and Chris host Uwe Ziegenhagen, a veteran of the LaTeX community. For our younger hipster audience, LaTeX has been the typesetting system of choice for generations of scientists publishing their work far beyond the realm of computer science (as a matter of fact, Chris' first two books were produced using this software). Plus …

In this episode our two ageing heroes discuss the wonderful and mysterious art of software quality with a special focus on testing. Ever wondered why this bleeding piece of code you just wrote doesn't do what it's supposed to or what to do if faced with somebody else's messy code and are tasked to check it out? Then this episode is definitely for y…

Marco Otte-Witte discusses with Luca Palmieri the present and future of the Rust web ecosystem. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @r…

Allen Wyma talks with Cliff Crosland about his work on Scanner.dev that is powered by Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rusta…