Pascal’s scribbles

A bunch of notes on various topics and projects I’m working on (probably mostly programming-related). You can also follow me on Mastodon or on Bluesky.

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Posts

• 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
• Story with Non-Coherent Time
• Public Domain Me Post Mortem
• Glue You Can Break Using Microwaves
• Digital Information Management As I Would Like It To Be