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

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

I implemented FizzBuzz before, but in retrospect I don't like what I did. I especially don't like my tests. So let's try to do better, and talk about … ...more

(Balaam, A.J. (2025). In F. Buontempo, editor, Overload 190 (2025).) I choose to avoid using "AI" (by which I mean Large Language Models1). Here's why… ...more

How about a little light relief? Let's convert a string to an int in Rust. Follow me on mastodon: @andybalaam@mastodon.social ...more