Writing

Some posts, grouped by topic. See all posts, listed chronologically.

Programming

Rreverrse Debugging: rr is the debugger that is is almost too good to be true.

What does Rust’s “unsafe” mean?: Exploring Rust’s escape hatch for writing low-level code that the type system cannot guarantee to be safe.
Little libraries: On focused libraries in Rust.

Finding Closure in Rust: Closures are powerful and flexible, building on traits, generics and ownership.
Defaulting to Thread Safety: Closures and Concurrency: Certain trait tricks can be used to model properties of aggregate types, which makes closures and concurrent APIs interact well.

Some notes on Send and Sync: The Send and Sync traits in Rust are cool, here are two edge-ish cases.
Defaulting to Thread Safety: Closures and Concurrency: Certain trait tricks can be used to model properties of aggregate types, which makes closures and concurrent APIs interact well.

What is SIMD?: An introduction to SIMD (single-instruction multiple-data).
SIMD in Rust: The state of SIMD in Rust, and an introduction to the improvements I have made.

Peeking inside Trait Objects: An introduction to the low-level details of trait objects.
The Sized Trait: A short summary of the Sized trait and dynamically sized types.
Object Safety: An overview of so-called “object safety”, and why it is necessary for trait objects.
Where Self Meets Sized: Revisting Object Safety: where Self: Sized now offers new flexibility for writing object-safe traits.

Rust infrastructure can be your infrastructure: Homu and highfive were created for rust-lang, but you can easily benefit too.
Helping Travis catch the rustc train: Manually configuring Travis CI to handle the Rust release trains and upload documentation is annoying. Getting a script to do it is far less annoying.
Travis on the train, part 2: travis-cargo got some improvements, including support for recording test coverage via coveralls.io.
travis-cargo 0.1.3: –no-sudo: More improvements to travis-cargo, specifically, recording test coverage without requiring sudo.