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AI Dec 03, 2025
Spotlight: Meta Prompting

A great article about meta prompting, from Jayson Lennon, instructor at Zero to Mastery

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programming Dec 03, 2025
Advent of Code 2025: Day 1, Part 1

My solution and thoughts on Day 1, Part 1.

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programming Dec 01, 2025
Spotlight: Rust Unit Testing - File Reading

A spotlight on an article about unit testing that I found via This Week in Rust.

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programming Nov 30, 2025
Advent of Code 2025: The Day Before

I'm going to try Advent of Code again this year, but this time I'm taking a different approach.

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programming Nov 28, 2025
What I Learned: Baby Steps to OpenRouter

A short piece documenting the progress I made to understand how to use the OpenRouter API.

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meta Nov 24, 2025
The Dark Side of AI: Cleaning Up a Mess

The author dug himself quite a nice little hole today, fortunately the production branch saves the day.

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memory-allocator Nov 22, 2025
Towards a Custom Memory Allocator in Rust

An introduction into "systems programming" by considering what a safe memory allocator might look like.

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site-news Nov 17, 2025
This Week in Crusty Rustacean Land

A look at the week that just happened...and thoughts on the week ahead.

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meta-programming Nov 17, 2025
Declarative Macros in Rust

Some notes from Claude about declarative macros in Rust

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generic-types Nov 16, 2025
Understanding Generics in Rust: When and Why to Use Them

A quick take on generic types in Rust, with a simple example

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