Pascal’s scribbles
A bunch of notes on various topics (probably mostly programming-related). Some are more, some are less well written. Many will just be crazy ideas I had in the shower and needed to write down. I won’t guarantee that all of this makes sense.
Articles
61 articles
Using Rust typestates for BCF writing
Niches for integer types in Rust
Seqair, my Rust-native take on htslib
Still blogging
Random Forest ML on GPU
Using CSS vars to style SVG symbols
Notes on Rastair, a variant and methylation caller
Rust BufWriter and LZ4 Compression
The Rust features that make Bevy’s systems work
How Bevy uses Rust traits for labeling
Long-form Texts on Interesting Details of Computers
Cheap tricks for high-performance Rust
Return-type based dispatch
Notes on proper systemd services
How to order Rust code
Rust 2019
Serve archived static files over HTTP
The Secret Life of Cows
quicli - The ideas behind my small Rust CLI framework
Rust 2018
Passing Functions as Parameters in Ruby
Conferences 2018
Learning Programming Concepts by Jumping in at the Deep End
5 Tips for Writing Small CLI Tools in Rust
Diesel.rs Trick: Treat View as Table
Conferences 2017
How to implement a trait for &str and &[&str]
Rust Concurrency Libraries
A way to customize Rust error messages
Idea: cargo-giftwrap - giving the gift awesome Rust libraries
Programming Wisdom
Teaching libraries through good documentation
Programming cross-pollination with Rust and Ruby
Pascal vs. USB-C
No biggie Markdown slideshows
Trait Driven Development in Rust
Zero-cost abstractions in web frontend dev
Rust IDE Features Wishlist
I <3 plain text files
Research paper organization
README-driven Development
Machine Readable Inline Markdown Code Documentation
Rust's ownership and borrowing in 150 words
Rich diffs of rendered HTML
A sane admin panel for Silicon Zucchini
Hidden treasures of the Rust ecosystem
Compile-time website checking
Virtual DOM for CLI and libui
Elegant Library APIs in Rust
Twitter-bot-driven twitter bot
Things to rewrite in Rust
Cards against compilers
JS-less photo grids with `display: flex`
Symbol Pronounciation
The fn key
Car-driven music generator
Paper Plane iPhone Game
Public Domain Me Post Mortem
Story with Non-Coherent Time
Glue You Can Break Using Microwaves
Digital Information Management As I Would Like It To Be