first-pair
The First Pair Emacs Reader
How a story from Mark Liberman about learning Spanish in Emacs became a parallel-text reader in GNU Info with a dictionary under every word, and why we forked iSH as 1Unix to make an iPhone terminal touchable.
Alexy Khrabrov
DNSSEC in the spirit of tinydns
August 2026 — rgbdns 0.6.3 DNSSEC can look like an invitation to build a control plane: a key database, a signing service, an RPC protocol, a stateful rollover controller, and an online authority that knows too much. That would be one way to add cryptographic signatures to DNS. It
agents
Every agent got into the mansion—until the doors required proof
.Agent Gym is an adversarial benchmark attacking agent's security policies across system boundaries.
Interoperable Cloud Sevrices at First Pair
a URL reservation system between two SaaS platforms
The First Apache DataFusion meetup at LangChain
On Thursday, our friends at *LangChain* are hosting the *Apache DataFusion* meetup, and *LakeSail* CEO, co-founder, and co-author of Sail will do a technical dive into how we are using DataFusion to rebuild the Spark ecosystem on Rust. Join me: https://bay.news/spark1 From now on, my
Rust AI Begins
All 12 Rust AI Begins recordings are live
The shortest, deepest technical conference about Rust in AI: ten systems talks compressed into one three-and-a-half-hour San Francisco meetup. Rust AI Begins was built as a technical sprint. On July 27, 2026, builders gathered at AWS Builder Loft in San Francisco to show where Rust is
DevReal is live: the graph behind developer culture
x 7,233 people, events, talks, recordings, organizations, projects, topics, and photo albums—connected by 14,246 relationships. A conference page tells you what happened once. A community graph can tell you who was there, what they built, where the recording lives, which company they represented at the time, who
Rust AI CFP
Fill out a form to propose a talk! https://pair.rs/rust-ai-cfp
rust
Rust AI Meetup 7/27/26
A grand review of the Rust AI and Data ecosystem!
dns
Announcing rgbdns: DNS from first principles, rebuilt in Rust
A memory-safe Rust reimplementation of djbdns, a first-principles DNS book, and the conformance and performance evidence behind both.
Sail OSS and the LakeSail Platform
LakeSail is building around a direct premise: keep the Spark developer interface, but replace the runtime beneath it. The open-source core is Sail, a Rust-native compute engine designed to run Spark-compatible workloads without the operational and performance costs that often come with JVM-based Spa