Static variables are available throughout the entire life of a program. They are allocated in a block of memory known at compile time. Due to that, they tend to represent global state that the program can access. It's getting especially tricky if one stat...

https://2020.icse-conferences.org/details/icse-2020-papers/68/Is-Rust-Used-Safely-by-Software-Developers-... (more…)

Now available in preview, Rust/WinRT is a language projection for the Windows Runtime that enables calling Windows APIs in a natural and idiomatic way, similarly to other language projections such as C++/WinRT. (more…)

This is not a production-ready neither serious parser, it's for pure fun! I was bored during one of the pandemics late nights watching Sam R... (more…)

Password authentication is seen as the simplest auth method, but there are plenty of pitfalls along the way. We will implement Basic auth from scratch, examining several classes of attacks against our API - and how to counter them. (more…)