I am tired. Today was rough. This year has been rough. Everyone around me is tired too. 2020 has been a hot mess, coming right after a not so hot 2019, and a messy 2018. It's not just you. It's everything. It's okay. (more…)

I’ve noticed that the ideas that I post on my blog are getting much more “well rounded”. That is a problem. It means I’m waiting too long to write about thin... (more…)

Using async Rust libraries is usually easy. It's just like using normal Rust code, with a little async or .await here and there. But writing your own async libraries can be hard. The first time I tried this, I got really confused by arcane, esoteric synta... (more…)

This post was originally drafted in August 2018, but I never got around to finishing it. As such, parts of its framing (e.g. the focus on bindgen) … (more…)

A 2014 report pegged the cost for Navy ships at $3 billion, a quarter of their overall maintenance expenses. (more…)