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

Image decay as a service

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."

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June 2020

Abstracting away correctness

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.

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A new website for 2020

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

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February 2020

I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride

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.

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Working with strings in Rust

There's a question that always comes up when people pick up the Rust programming language: why are there two string types? Why is there String, and &str?

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January 2020

A half-hour to learn Rust

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?

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November 2019

The many rewrites of the itch.io desktop app

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.

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Rust 2020: Funding

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

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October 2019

Program in C (Parody song)

Once upon a time, @Cinememer wrote some alternative lyrics to "Under The Sea". I couldn't resist singing them!

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September 2019

Declarative memory management

It feels like an eternity since I've started using Rust, and yet I remember vividly what it felt like to bang my head against the borrow checker for the first few times.

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