Articles are single-page pieces that give a whirlwind tour of a specific topic.
They're different from series, which go very in-depth, taking many detours.
July 2020
Hey internet! So, someone broke into some of my accounts.
I'm taking entire responsibility for this - there's the part where I fucked up, and if I didn't fuck up, then none of this would've happened.
Since I write a lot of articles about Rust, I tend to get a lot
of questions about specific crates: "Amos, what do you think of oauth2-simd?
Is it better than openid-sse4? I think the latter has a lot of boilerplate."
June 2020
I've been banging the same drum for years: APIs must be carefully designed.
This statement doesn't resonate the same way with everyone. In order to really understand what I mean by "careful API design", one has to have experienced both ends of the spectrum.
Hi everyone. Has it been two months since I last posted something? Yes it has!
That seems like a nice round duration, so let's break the silence with a few announcements.
I have a new website
February 2020
My honeymoon with the Go language is extremely over.
This article is going to have a different tone from what I've been posting the past year - it's a proper rant. And I always feel bad writing those, because, inevitably, it discusses things a lot of people have been working very hard on.
January 2020
In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it. But how can you read a lot of it if you don't know what it means?
November 2019
I started working on the itch.io desktop app over 4 years ago.
It has arguably been my main project ever since, along with companion projects like butler, capsule and many smaller libraries.
Blog posts that praise Rust are many but funding is generally in short supply.
If even a small percentage of the money Rust saves companies was put back into the ecosystem it would help secure the future of the platform tremendously.
Multiple sources of funding
October 2019
Once upon a time, @Cinememer wrote some alternative lyrics to "Under The Sea". I couldn't resist singing them!