One of the best tips I ever got was from my table tennis coach. He watched me play and said, “You are leaning forward with the wrong foot!” I’d been playing for years and thought I had a good stance. I’m left-handed, and no one had told me that I should put my right foot forward. I had copied the st… More »

After I published Five Years of Trying to Add Recursion to lychee, one reply I got was a very fair question: If recursion is so hard, how do other link checkers do it? Plenty of them already crawl websites! This sent me down a rabbit hole of reading the code of other link checkers. The key takeawa… More »

Recursion has been lychee’s longest-standing open issue. It’s been sitting there, unresolved, for over five years now. If you haven’t come across it before, lychee is a fast, async link checker written in Rust (BTW). You point it at your website, your docs, your README, your Markdown files. I starte… More »

Since my professional writing on Rust has moved to the corrode blog, I can be a bit more casual on here and share some of my personal thoughts on the recent debate around using Rust in established software. The two projects in question are git (kernel thread, Hacker News Discussion) and the recently… More »

In which I look at unconventional ways to print 'Hello, world!' in Rust as an excuse to teach some Rust concepts and foster curiosity. Seemingly simple problems can have surprisingly complex, often humbling solutions. More »

I’ve come a long way in my tech journey, from dealing with bare metal servers to exploring the world of cloud computing. Initially, it seemed so straightforward – spin up a server, deploy a container, and you’re done. But as I delved deeper, I realized that the ease of infrastructure is not as simpl… More »

Reader showing an article in light and dark mode. tl;dr: I built a service that takes any article and creates a pleasant-to-read, printable version. It is similar to Reader View in Firefox/Safari, but also works on older browsers, can be sha… More »

Every once in a while my buddies and I meet for dinner. I value these evenings, but the worst part is scheduling these events! We send out a message to the group. We wait for a response. We decide on a date. Someone sends out a calendar invite. Things finally happen. None of that is fun excep… More »

In which we learn about the intricacies of the Unix `history` command, rewrite it in Rust and throw it away again in the end as we uncover the truth. More »

This post has moved to my other blog. It will be updated there in the future. More »