Articles
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.
2025 Recap: so many projects
I’ve been working on so many projects in 2025, I thought it was important for me to make a recap, if only just to clear my head.
There are many, many, many things to go through and we don’t have a sponsor today, so I’m gonna start right away with facet!
facet
facet is a project that I started working on in March of this year — that’s right, it’s only been ten months, yet it feels like an eternity.
Introducing arborium, a tree-sitter distribution
About two weeks ago I entered a discussion with the docs.rs team about, basically, why we have to look at this:
When we could be looking at this:
And of course, as always, there are reasons why things are the way they are. In an effort to understand those reasons, I opened a GitHub issue which resulted in a short but productive discussion.
I walked away discouraged, and then decided to, reasons be damned, attack this problem from three different angles.
Does Dioxus spark joy?
Note: this article is adapted from a presentation I gave at a Rust Paris Meetup — that’s why it sounds a little different than usual. Enjoy!
Good evening! Tonight, I will attempt to answer the question: Does Dioxus spark joy? Or at the very least, whimsy.
What’s Dioxus, you ask? It is first and foremost a name that is quote: “legally not inspired by any Pokémon”.
Engineering a Rust optimization quiz
There are several Rust quizzes online, including one that’s literally called the “Unfair Rust Quiz” at https://this.quiz.is.fckn.gay/, but when I was given the opportunity to record an episode of the Self-Directed Research podcast live on the main stage of EuroRust 2025, I thought I’d come up with something special.
The unfair rust quiz really deserves its name. It is best passed with a knowledgeable friend by your side.
Making our own spectrogram
A couple months ago I made a loudness meter and went way too in-depth into how humans have measured loudness over time.
Today we’re looking at a spectrogram visualization I made, which is a lot more entertaining!
We’re going to talk about how to extract frequencies from sound waves, but also how my spectrogram app is assembled from different Rust crates, how it handles audio and graphics threads, how it draws the spectrogram etc.
crates.io phishing attempt
Earlier this week, an npm supply chain attack.
It’s turn for crates.io, the main public repository for Rust crates (packages).
The phishing e-mail looks like this:
And it leads to a GitHub login page that looks like this:
Several maintainers received it — the issue is being discussed on GitHub.
The crates.io team has acknowledged the attack and said they’d see if they can do something about it.
color npm package compromised
On September 8 2025, around 13:00 UTC, someone compromised Josh Junon’s npm account (qix) and started publishing backdoored versions of his package.
Someone noticed and let Josh know:
Josh confirmed he’d gotten pwned by a fake 2FA (two-factor authentication) reset e-mail:
The phishing e-mail came from npmsj.help (registered 3 days prior) and claimed
users had to reset their 2FA:
