Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson

@herberticus

Author of Hands-on Rust. Rust Trainer at Ardan Labs. Consultant with Bracket Productions and iZones. Rust Series Expert at PragProg.

Columbia, MO pragprog.com/titles/hwrust/… Joined February 2010

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Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus Nov 25, 2025

I haven't received my author's copies yet, but Amazon just notified me that the print edition of Advanced Hands on Rust is now available. a.co/d/fKDDReZ

You can also buy the ebook from Pragprog right now, 50% off with the coupon code "save 50"
#rust

www.amazon.com Advanced Hands-on Rust: Level Up Your Coding Skills Advanced Hands-on Rust: Level Up Your Coding Skills

Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus Nov 3

So proud! We won the Triumph award! This one's for Dave, and all our significant others who have been struggling this year!

LibreQoS @LibreQoS Nov 3

#LibreQoS won the Triumph Award at #WISPAPALOOZA 2026 by @WISPAnews 🥰!

Congratulations also to @IspFramework #Splynx and @ToewsTrendal with Stream IT Networks LLC 🙏

#bufferbloat #DaveTaht #FQ_CoDel #ISP #BandwidthIsALIE #RFC8290 #sch_CAKE
#broadband #latency #jitter #QoE

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Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus Oct 27

Getting ready to teach Rust at the IEEE-CARS conference in Grand Forks, North Dakota! Full day of foundations and Python interop @ardanlabs

Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus Oct 4

As much as I hate quoting DHH, the results only surprised me in that Go should have done a little better. Presumably he didn't read the code for any of the languages. Rust is (almost) always a good performance choice.

DHH Verified account @dhh Oct 4

I've had agents implement and optimize the Campfire web app in Elixir, Go, and Rust. Yes, Ruby is the slowest. I didn't care about that when the pay-off was huge in terms of productivity and developer joy. But if you're no longer reading the code? github.com/basecamp/once-…

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Herbert "TheBracket" Wolverson @herberticus Oct 1

Such a great confidence!

RustConf Verified account @rustconf Oct 1

#RustConf26 photos and videos are now live! 🦀

🎥 Keynotes, sessions, lightning talks: youtube.com/@RustFoundation

📸 Event photos: flickr.com/photos/rustfou…

What were your favorite moments?

#RustLang #OpenSource #RustConf

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