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Talking to localhost from inside an Android emulator

If you're developing an Android application that talks to a server, you may well want to run the server locally and talk to it from your Android emula… ...more

March 03, 2026 [Programming, Android, Tech]
Rust: compiling to WASM to make a browser-based game using canvas

I love writing Rust, and I love writing simple games, so let's combine the two by showing how to make a tiny game framework with these properties: 99… ...more

February 27, 2026 [Programming, Rust, Tech, Videos]
Billion row challenge: parsing temperatures fast(ish)

I watched Jon Gjengset taking on the one billion row challenge and got interested in one small corner of it: parsing temperatures, and in particular p… ...more

February 20, 2026 [Programming, Rust, Tech, Videos]
Rust: building arbitrary precision integers (badly)

I thought it might be quite straightforward to show the basics of how we could design a "BigInt" type of struct. It turns out it was more involved tha… ...more

February 06, 2026 [Programming, Rust, Tech, Videos]
Rust: how to return a closure from a function, and what are closures anyway?

Sometimes we want to return a closure from a function, and sometimes that doesn't work the way we might expect. This will lead us on to how we should … ...more

January 30, 2026 [Programming, Rust, Tech, Videos]
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Talking to localhost from inside an Android emulator
Rust: compiling to WASM to make a browser-based game using canvas
Billion row challenge: parsing temperatures fast(ish)
Rust: building arbitrary precision integers (badly)
Rust: how to return a closure from a function, and what are closures anyway?
FizzBuzz 2: FizzBuzz Harder
Why I don't use AI
Converting a string to an int in Rust (for no reason)
Why I don't use AI (expanded)
Resizing and moving an encrypted LVM volume
Implementing FizzBuzz in Rust (for no reason)
Reversing a string in Rust (for no reason)
Mini-rust in Rust 050: Parsing function definitions
Why do I have 2 passwords? How to talk about encryption in Matrix
Invisible Crypto: can Matrix be both secure and easy to use?
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