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@petelevasseur.com

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Rust @ Woven by Toyota 🦀✌️ Lead @ Safety-Critical Rust Consortium, Chair @ Coding Guidelines, 3 x girl dad, 🇯🇵 日本語オッケー

screenshot of Rust blog post about many journeys of learning Rust

screenshot highlighting Angelo Corsaro's talk in the Eclipse SDV Rust SIG about Zenoh, now running on microcontrollers in a no-std environment

meme of skeleton weight lifting with the caption: "my body is a machine that turns pictures of whiteboards into diagrams on slides"

screenshot of the ekxide presentation in the Eclipse SDV Rust SIG:

"Where Rust's Safety Guarantees Stop: Shared Memory, Concurrency, and Unsafe Boundaries"

screenshot of confluence2md project open-sourced by Toyota

screenshot of Eclipse SDV WG's Rust SIG about "Inserting WebAssembly between C++ and Rust for Fun and Profit"

screenshot of agenda showing Christof Petig's talk about using WebAssembly for interop between C++ <=> Rust

photo of Pete LeVasseur talking about how "so, uh, Toyota has shipped Rust now"

screenshot of the Rust Special Interest Group in the Eclipse SDV on the day that Alex Senier of Ferrous Systems talked about what it'll take for ASIL D

screenshot of grade 3 FAST geometry practice

screenshot showing Alex Senier of Ferrous Systems coming out to chat with us at the Rust Special Interest Group of the Eclipse SDV WG

screenshot of "Popping the Hood on Rust in the 2026 Toyota RAV4", a talk that Pete LeVasseur will give at RustWeek 2026

picture of Kai Hudalla and Pete LeVasseur together at the Eclipse SDV Hackathon in 2025

screenshot showing Angelo Corsaro's upcoming talk about Zenoh + Rust + Microcontrollers = zenoh-nostd

screenshot of the notes from the Eclipse SDV WG's Rust SIG instance on 2026-04-28 featuring Stefan Akatyschew all about Rust readiness for ISO 26262 (Automotive standard)

screenshot of listing of Rust SIG talks, highlighting Stefan Akatyschew's about "How ready is Rust for ISO 26262 applications? A practical gap analysis"

screenshot of our meeting notes from 2026-04-14 for the Eclipse SDV WG Rust SIG when Elene Gantner of Mercedes Benz talked about Eclipse OpenSOVD

screenshot showing Elena Gantner's talk tomorrow in the Eclipse Rust SIG about OpenSOVD

screenshot showing the Eclipse SDV WG website's Integration Projects page with the Eclipse SDV Landscape project output with a taxononmy of projects by what they do

screenshot showing upcoming Eclipse SDV Rust SIG talks, including Christof Petig's on "Inserting WebAssembly between C++ and Rust for Fun and Profit"

the Eclipse SDV Rust SIG meeting notes screenshot for 2026-03-31

screenshot highlighting Markus Hosch's talk about C++ <=> Rust tomorrow in the Rust SIG

screenshot of Pete LeVasseur giving the Google Android Comprehensive Rust training

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screenshot boxed in showing upcoming talk in April 28th, 2026 for Stefan Akatyschew of Anori Tech UG to talk about Rust's readiness for ISO 26262

"we still talk about you" meme depicting my nearly depleted codex usage for the week

showing weekly usage for Codex at 1%, resetting tomorrow

screenshot showing Eclipse SDV Rust SIG meeting notes with this time being "What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical?"

talk schedule for the Eclipse SDV Rust SIG showing my (Pete LeVasseur's) talk tomorrow as boxed in "What does it take to ship Rust in Safety-Critical?"

hunter x hunter manga image showing killua holding hands with his sister alluka on new uniqlo shirt

game "Comic Creator" box

announcement image reading: I am speaking at #ACC US 2026 with a picture of Pete LeVasseur and his name and Woven by Toyota.

splash screen of interview of Daniel Almeida on work in writing a Linux GPU kernel driver in Rust

screenshot showing that we had Daniel Silverstone of Codethink out to share with us about gaps between C and Rust when it comes to high-assurance and safety-critical

screenshot showing upcoming Eclipse SDV Rust SIG talks

in particular, tomorrow's / March 3rd 2026's is highlighed: "Measuring the gap between C and Rust" by Daniel Silverstone of Codethink

splash screen of Pete LeVasseur talking about Rust for Foundational Software, i.e. why Rust matters to the safety-critical community

screenshot of claude telling me to buzz off:

The plan is done. It was done at v10. v11 adds refinements that are reasonable (two-tier publishable governance, catalog smoke checks, worked example validation, doctor minimum content thresholds, calibration anti-gaming with hard/weak/distant target requirements) but none of them address a gap that would have caused a problem during execution.

You're past the point of diminishing returns on plan refinement. Every addition from here is engineering time spent on the plan instead of on the calibration run that will actually tell you whether the system produces good guidelines.

title slide of talk at Rust Week: Popping the Hood on Rust in the 2026 Toyota RAV4

screenshot showing contributions over time on GitHub

2.8k contributions

first bump: Begin OSS on Eclipse uProtocol

second bump: Scaffolding out Safety-Critical Rust Coding Guidelines

third bump: Eclipse SDV Hackathon Environment Prep for Participants

fourth bump: Agentic Coding for OSS - Incuding ISO 26262 <=> Rust Mapping

screenshot of macos tahoe's preview with iso 26262 open

wesley snipes in new jack city meme

reads: "updating macos to tahoe - to continue accessing company resources"

splash screen of talk for: "Rust for Foundational SW or: Safety-Critical Software in Rust" delivered by Pete LeVasseur

screenshot showing the safety-critical rust flagship theme with me as point of contact

me, pete, at 45%weekly usage limit in my quest to make safety-critical Rust improved

screenshot of a post on twitter claiming that the support for centrist policies is low among youth

when in reality, 18-29 year olds support centrist policies at a rate of 3.8%

intro splash screen for interview of Taylor Cramer, Crubit Development Lead at Google

meme showing friendship ended with adobe podcast now auphonic is my best friend

Eclipse iceoryx2 <=> Eclipse uProtocol workshop top-level table of contents

detailed walkthrough section of LoLa / Eclipse S-CORE Communications repo

screenshot showing that Pete LeVasseur is donating to the Zen Browser via Patreon

screenshot of talk that Pete LeVasseur (me) will give at Rust Nation UK 2026

screenshot showing a part of the Eclipse SDV Rust SIG watercooler chat talks scheduled so far

screenshot of blog post on the Rust Blog: What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical?

screenshot of Pete LeVasseur's blog / plog showing the article: Curiosity: How I Moved from Senior to Staff Engineer

box of the game Adventure Builder

dice result table showing:
- 20: critical hit
- 2-19: add modifiers, consult table
- 1: safety-critical miss with a small safety-critical ferrous emoji

many warnings on a school website

sickos meme, but with ferris the crab from the Rust programing language mascot