What's everyone working on this week (44/2026)?

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New week, new Rust! What are you folks up to?

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I had my first pull request to rust-lang/rust merged!!!

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I'm in the early stages of writing a pixel art editor with no GUI library, just winit and softbuffer.

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Mostly working on the next article I'll be publishing (prior article was on the basics of declarative macros).

In-between that, I'll keep working on my next crate!

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Kowalski, an agent runtime where a 2B local model does the language work and plain Rust does the rest (SQL, files, scheduling). Just shipped 2.6.1 to crates.io. This week: a newcomer's first run "completed" with an empty file, because a step with no tools still listed tools in its prompt and the small model planned a fetch and answered with nothing. Now a step with no tools sees none, and a second empty answer fails the step loudly. GitHub - yarenty/kowalski: Hordes of small AI agents that do real work on your machine — free, private, one download. A local model (Ollama) or your own key; spreadsheets become workbooks, pages a morning brief, research notes in your vault. Rust, MIT. · GitHub

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Discovered that my system doesn't support egui_glow, and thus had to write my own voxel rendering engine instead of taking three-d's. Was nice to refresh my memory of hexagonal grids, I suppose.

Which also marks the moment when my robot-in-world-of-blocks emulator is essentially ready!

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I did some refactoring this week and shipped source-mesh v1.1, adding a check for how many dependencies each “module” has. I’m putting “module” in quotes because the analyzer’s idea of a module is slightly different from Rust’s.

Oh, and I spent a fair bit of time playing around with cargo-mutants. Awesome tool—definitely a must-have for any project.

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Still on Mars, a browser from scratch in Rust (own html/css layout, own js engine, own http on rustls). This week was selector matching: one index per style pass so combinator steps are lookups, plus a work budget on :has() so one nasty selector can't stall the pass. Eye got to 81.6% of the WPT reftests yesterday. Grid and svg still missing. Code is in mars/ at GitHub - OyadotAI/oya-browser: The browser control plane for AI agents. One API over Oya Cloud, Browserbase, Steel, Anchor, Browser Use and your own Chrome, with persistent personas, CAPTCHA and MFA handling, and live human takeover. · GitHub