An interview with Tim McNamara aka timClicks ahead of this year's RustForge conference. We cover the conference, Tim's journey into the world of software, and the many plates currently spinning.

Brought to you by https://rustworkshop.co/ 

• timclicks.dev
• Humanitarian Open Streetmap
• What is a Policy Advisor
• Rust Forge Conference 27-30 August 2025 - Wellington, New Zealand
• Rust In Action book
• TimClicks Youtube channel
• Accelerant.dev
• Compose podcast

• https://rustacean-station.org/ podcast
• https://this-week-in-rust.org/ email newsletter
• https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/17dt9bo/whats_the_current_best_practice_for_web_dev_in/
• Software Should be Free podcast
• https://blessed.rs/crates
• gitopolis releases - upgrade script
• cargo-edit (provides cargo-upgrade)
• asdf rust version manager

New Reading Rust Meetup group

## From the blog

- list of rust programming books (after looking at Luca's Zero2Prod)
- How to be part of the rust community

## Rust London

-  "shuttle takeover" meetup 27 June 2023
- shuttle.rs - system for deploying rust, like heroku but without the containers apparently. plus hosting

## On Github

- gitopolis - done, shipped security patch update - no drama and high confidence thanks to  devops pipeline and great tests
- DI in rust - wip - rust-dependency-injection-demo repo

An update on what we've learned from spending more time with Rust with real coding. The perspective from C#, C++, Ruby etc.

- The Rust Workshop: https://rustworkshop.co/ - a consultancy and practice of interest
- Jim (aka Luxagen) / RotKraken: https://github.com/luxagen/RotKraken
- Tim / Gitopolis: https://github.com/timabell/gitopolis
- Non-lexical lifetimes problem number 3: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2094-nll.html
- GPT ideas for dependency injection: - https://gist.github.com/timabell/8813d851399908987396c1725aa8b6d6
- The TOML upgrade patch: https://github.com/timabell/gitopolis/commit/8fb0a4336d3431c11d2d61baa693a35ddd090365

Tim and Jim, two coders with 20 years each coding, one more c# one more c++ but both with broad experience have discovered Rust, and capture their learnings, musings and enthusiasms for your entertainment. 

• https://rustworkshop.co/
• https://twitter.com/tim_abell
• https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/second.html
• https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-welcomes-the-rust-foundation/