Jez and Andy get together for crazy programming hijinks, trying to figure out from scratch how gzip compressions works, starting by making a valid min… ...more
Veteran super-coder Jez is back, and claims he has "finished" implementing Cell, Andy's toy language, in Rust. Jez and Andy basically gossip a bit, ab… ...more
I really enjoy re-implementing things that already exist. Sometimes it's just out of interest, sometimes it's to make it faster, or work in a differen… ...more
Let's fix our messy error handling in our Rust towncrier clone by using the anyhow library and adding context() calls to describe what went wrong. Can… ...more
Since I made this blog statically-generated using Zola I've been using Remark42 as my comment system. I wanted something self-hosted and simple, and i… ...more