21st of June, 2020 · Updated on 28th of April, 2021 · Tagged with rust

Tips for Faster Rust Compile Times

When it comes to runtime performance, Rust is one of the fastest guns in the west. 🔫 It is on par with the likes of C and C++ and sometimes even surpasses those. Compile times, however? That's another story. Below is a list of tips and tricks on how to make your Rust project compile faster today. Th… More »

17th of October, 2019 · Tagged with dev oss rust

A Tiny, Static, Full-Text Search Engine using Rust and WebAssembly

I wrote a basic search module that you can add to a static website. It's very lightweight (50kB-100kB gzipped) and works with Hugo, Zola, and Jekyll. Only searching for entire words is supported. Try the search box on the left for a demo. The code is on Github. Static site generators are magical… More »

2nd of December, 2018 · Tagged with dev rust

What Is Rust Doing Behind the Curtains?

Rust allows for a lot of syntactic sugar, that makes it a pleasure to write. It is sometimes hard, however, to look behind the curtain and see what the compiler is really doing with our code. More »

31st of July, 2018 · Tagged with dev rust

fastcat - A Faster `cat` Implementation Using Splice

Lots of people asked me to write another piece about the internals of well-known Unix commands. Well, actually, nobody asked me, but it makes for a good intro. I'm sure you’ve read the previous parts about `yes` and `ls` — they are epic. More »

9th of March, 2018 · Tagged with dev rust

A Tiny `ls` Clone Written in Rust

In my series of useless Unix tools rewritten in Rust, today I'm going to be covering one of my all-time favorites: ls. First off, let me say that you probably don't want to use this code as a replacement for ls on your local machine (although you could!). As we will find out, ls is actually quite a … More »

9th of January, 2018 · Tagged with dev rust

Rust in 2018

I wrote about the future of Rust before and it seems like nobody stops me from doing it again! Quite the contrary: this time the Rust core team even asked for it. I'm a bit late to the party, but here are my 2 cents about the priorities for Rust in 2018. More »

17th of December, 2017 · Tagged with dev rust

Rust for Rubyists

Recently I came across a delightful article on idiomatic Ruby. I'm not a good Ruby developer by any means, but I realized, that a lot of the patterns are also quite common in Rust. What follows is a side-by-side comparison of idiomatic code in both languages. The Ruby code samples are from the origi… More »

15th of October, 2017 · Tagged with culture dev oss rust

Learn Some Rust During Hacktoberfest

October is the perfect time to contribute to Open Source — at least according to Github and DigitalOcean. Because that's when they organize Hacktoberfest, a global event where you get a free shirt and lots of street cred for creating pull requests. More »

10th of October, 2017 · Updated on 29th of April, 2021 · Tagged with dev rust

A Little Story About the `yes` Unix Command

What's the simplest Unix command you know? There's echo, which prints a string to stdout and true, which always terminates with an exit code of 0. Among the series of simple Unix commands, there's also yes. If you execute it without arguments, you get an infinite stream of y's, separated by a newlin… More »

18th of September, 2017 · Tagged with dev oss rust

Lightning Fast Image Previews with Pure CSS and LQIP

My website is reasonably fast. There was one thing left which really annoyed me: layout reflow after images got loaded. The problem is, that the image dimensions are not known when the text is ready to be displayed. As a result, the text will be pushed down on the screen as soon as an image is loaded above. I decided to fix that once and for all. More »

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