Loris Cro ⚡

Upcoming Zig Days!

Seattle: March 21
Naples: March 28 (Andrew will be there!)
Stockholm: April 11
Nuremberg: April 11

More info on zig.day!

The vibecoding will continue until uptime improves.

-- Manager @ Microslop GitHub

Zig Day https://zig.day/europe/naples/0/

The first ever Zig Day Napoli is scheduled for March 28!

Both Andrew and I will be there, join us for some good Zig...
...and some good food as well!

https://zig.day/europe/naples/0/

Index, Count, Offset, Size https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2026-02-16-index-count-offset-size/

Straight up good ideas.

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2026-02-16-index-count-offset-size/

Zig Day Nürnberg #1 Zig Days are single-day collaborative programming events

Feb 7th I'll be at Zig Day Nuremberg!

Come meet other Zig enthusiasts and make software you can love!

zig.day/europe/nurem...

Twitch Awebo - OSS Discord alternative in Zig⚡ https://zine-ssg.io

Live to work on Awebo, a self-hostable discord replacement written in Zig

https://twitch.tv/kristoff_it

https://youtube.com/live/9gwZ_NUeg-E?feature=share

> new Zig project with fancy homepage, cool!
> whole project is one single AI generated commit, uhmm...
> no build.zig, only BUILD.bazel, 💀

Simplistic Comptime Column Safety in SQLite Queries | Loris Cro's Blog https://kristoff.it/blog/simplistic-comptime-sqlite/

Simplistic Comptime Column Safety in SQLite Queries

https://kristoff.it/blog/simplistic-comptime-sqlite/

Announcing powerful upgrades & a new pricing model for self-hosted runners - Work Life by Atlassian We’re excited to announce the release of Bitbucket Pipelines self-hosted runners v5.0. This release introduces powerful new capabilities, including the...

Here's another fun one: Atlassian wants you to pay 15 usd/mo PER SLOT if you want parallel builds on YOUR self-hosted runners

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/bitbucket/announcing-v5-self-hosted-runners

*March 1st

Pricing changes for GitHub Actions GitHub Actions pricing update: Discover lower runner rates (up to 39% off) following a major re-architecture for faster, more reliable CI/CD.

We got out of GitHub right on time!

From Jan 1st you have to pay by the minute to run YOUR OWN self-hosted runners.

Somebody told a C-level about safe_sleep.sh and where we saw a bug, they saw a feature.

resources.github.com/actions/2026...

Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs | Lobsters 21 comments

Reminder that asynchrony is not concurrency.

https://lobste.rs/s/uzfrya/zig_s_new_plan_for_asynchronous_programs

Advent of Code in Zig | Loris Cro's Blog https://kristoff.it/blog/advent-of-code-zig/

If you're planning on doing Advent Of Code in Zig this year, my blog post on how to get started still fully applies.

https://kristoff.it/blog/advent-of-code-zig/

Builtin Matrix type · Issue #4960 · ziglang/zig · GitHub LLVM 10 introduced nice Matrix intrinsics. Possible syntax: @Matrix(rows, cols, type) Related issue: #903

Builtin matrix type proposal was just accepted :^)

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4960

Zig Day Nürnberg #0 Zig Days are single-day collaborative programming events

On Nov 29th I'll be at the Zig Day hosted in Nuremberg, if you're coming, see you there!

zig.day/europe/nurem...

Thanks!

Zig Day https://zig.day/usa/san-francisco/0/

The first ever Zig Day San Francisco has been scheduled!

https://zig.day/usa/san-francisco/0/

Open Source leadership has succeeded beyond anybody's wildest dreams, it's just that the machine is not designed to do what's written on the tin.

https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-builds-getting-faster

Boston Zig | Guild The Boston community for the Zig programming language. We'll aim to host events quarterly and periodic socials.

Boston Zig is now up to 8 members!

guild.host/boston-zig

#ZigLang

Last saturday I went to ZigDay, an entire day dedicated to learning/experimenting with Zig!!

I wrote a short journal here -> marcobacis.dev/blog/2025-se...

Thanks to Coding Bunker (www.codingbunker.it) and in particular to @inge.4pr.es , @omissis.dev and @kristoff.it, for the day!

Zig Day https://zig.day/usa/san-francisco/

Zig Day San Francisco is up and running!

https://zig.day/usa/san-francisco/

Boston Zig | Meetup All things for the Zig programming language in the Boston area.

I started a Boston @ziglang.bsky.social meetup!

www.meetup.com/boston-zig

#ZigLang

First!

The first ziglang.org outage

https://ziglang.org/news/first-outage/

Zig's 2025 Financial Report & Fundraiser!

https://ziglang.org/news/2025-financials/

I got fed up with animating code for videos so I wrote Mimic. It plays back code based on simple instructions.

crate: crates.io/crates/mimic
github: github.com/togglebyte/m...

Zig 0.15.1 is out!

https://ziglang.org/download/0.15.1/release-notes.html

Three new Zig Days!

- USA: Seattle, WA
- Canada: Kitchener-Waterloo
- Europe: Bristol (UK)

If you live close to any of them, go to zig.day and subscribe to be notified of upcoming events (we also have RSS and iCal)!

safe_sleep.sh rarely hangs indefinitely · Issue #3792 · actions/runner · GitHub Describe the bug Very rarely on update of github actions runner safe_sleep.sh hangs forever: $ ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND ... actions+ 72298 96.3 0.0 4372 3328 ? ...

If you're self-hosting GitHub Actions runners you probably burned YEARS worth of CPU hours because of this ridicolous bug introduced in 2022!

https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792