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NO.001Learning Rust with the Book: Ownership, References and Slices
The third post in a series that works through The Rust Programming Language. It tries chapter 4's ownership, references and borrowing, and slices, checking when values are dropped, what happens when a moved variable is used, and what the compiler says when the reference rules are broken, comparing them along the way with TypeScript
October 25, 202620 MIN1 VIEWS120 MIN READ
NO.002Learning Rust with the Book: Variables, Types, Functions and Control Flow
The second post in a series that works through The Rust Programming Language. It tries chapter 3's variables, data types, functions and control flow side by side with TypeScript, and breaks the code on purpose to see how integer overflow differs between debug and release, and what a trailing ; changes
October 18, 202631 MIN5 VIEWS531 MIN READ
NO.003Learning Rust with the Book: From Installation to the Guessing Game
The first post in a series that works through The Rust Programming Language a little at a time, hands on. It installs Rust with mise, runs Hello, World! with rustc and Cargo, and builds the guessing game from chapter 2, breaking the code on purpose to read what the compiler says
October 17, 202633 MIN4 VIEWS433 MIN READ
NO.004Getting Started with OpenTofu
OpenTofu is the open fork of Terraform. This guide starts from what goes wrong with a hand-built cloud account, then covers running aws login in a Docker container and handing the credentials over, plan, apply and destroy, what state really is, variables and references, adopting resources with import blocks, this blog's infra/ and its CI, OpenTofu-only features such as state encryption, and the traps hit along the way
October 10, 202632 MIN5 VIEWS532 MIN READ
NO.005Getting Started with Biome
Biome rolls a formatter and a linter into one tool. This guide compares it with the ESLint and Prettier pairing, then covers format, lint and check, assist actions that rewrite code, domains enabled by dependencies, this blog's biome.json, migrating the create-next-app template, measured speed, and GritQL plugins
October 8, 202620 MIN11 VIEWS1120 MIN READ
NO.006Getting Started with Bun
Bun rolls a JavaScript and TypeScript runtime, package manager and test runner into one. This guide covers running TypeScript directly, bun install and bun.lock, how it blocks dependency scripts, bun test, moving off npm, telling whether Node or Bun is actually running your code, and install speed measured against npm, pnpm and Deno
October 8, 202622 MIN16 VIEWS1622 MIN READ