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Understanding Rust Strings and str inside structs.
2020-01-08T10:26:02-05:00
Rust is a challenging language to work in coming from a more dynamic language like Javascript or Ruby. Here's a short breakdown of a compiler error message around Strings and ownership that stumped me for a bit.
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Tweet stash
2019-12-12T21:54:49-05:00
Two tweets that I've had stuck in my tabs for _awhile_ and decided to stash them here.
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Track redirects with curl
2019-10-22T13:25:50-04:00
I made a bash alias that takes a URL as an arguement and runs it through curl resuting in the Headers from each redirect, the final URL, and the number of redirects printed to the console.
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The thing about computers
2019-09-21T13:40:51-04:00
Brent Simmons talks about what made computing so compelling and what we might be losing.
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Dead Cells might be a perfect game
2019-09-20T10:23:59-04:00
Dead Cells is an incredible single-player fighting platformer (not sure the proper term for it).
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0.14
2019-07-30T10:31:07-0400
I desperately miss macOS but the Apple laptop hardware has atrophied to such a degree that the software alone isn't worth it.
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Solving busybox crond hanging on Alpine Linux boot
2019-05-05T14:13:02-0400
How busybox crond hanging at startup sent me down a rabbit hole where I learned about entropy and Linux.
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Introducing Cycle
2019-04-05T23:05:17-0400
Cycle is a half-baked static site-generator that I wrote to publish this here interweb page. Cycle is not really ready for anyone else to use but me at this point. However I wanted to outline my rationale for the various design decisions that inform how Cycle works today.
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Ajax and Rails
2019-01-28T11:25:49-05:00
This is just a short post to save a few links and document that "Server Javascript Responses" in Rails are still useful in 2018/19.
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Blog rewrite
2018-11-20T23:01:04-05:00
I haven't posted here recently. That's largely because I did the classic "Time to rewrite the blog, I'll post when it's done" thing. Well it's not done, but I messed up by not sharing my thought process and reasoning for the re-write. So, I'm trying to rectify that now with some scant and scattered sentences.