This is mainly a message to myself. I have spent the last few weeks feeling more and more depressed about "the tech industry". I am sad that social me… ...more

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