I have been looking for an excuse to learn Rust for some time now. Although I had read several tutorials and ran through the Exercism.io problems, I am incapable of learning anything new unless I actually get a chance to build something with it. But I did... (more…)

It's entirely possible that you're walking a happy road of a programmer who never had to write a parser by hand. That's not my case unfortunately. I remember incomprehensible indexing of hideous arrays of characters, a maddening cascade of unmaintainable ...

Recently I've been reading Effective Modern C++ by Scott Meyers. It's a great book that contains tons of practical advice, as well as horro... (more…)

Just before the holiday weekend, Oracle released three new open source container utilities. These include a debugging tool, a microcontainer builder, and most interestingly, an implementation of the Open Container Initiative’s oci-runtime specification kn... (more…)

clap is a fantastic Rust library for Command Line Argument Parsing. It's both easy to use and powerful - in the spirit of Rust philosophy - you get what you pay for. Simple CLI options are simple to define, while complex schemes (think git level of comple...