Rust's crates package API keys were not randomly generated and were being stored in plain text. (more…)

Microsoft has been recently experimenting with Rust to improve the safety of their software. In a talk at RustFest Barcelona, Microsoft engineers Ryan Levick and Sebastian Fernandez explained the challenges they faced to use Rust at Microsoft. Part of Mic... (more…)

During an ongoing argument in a chatroom between some folks about how “zomg systemd is ruining everything”, I decided to look at some init system history. I learned a cool tidbit of information from a HN comment1: apparently systemd’s design was inspired ... (more…)

There are two main aspects to compile times that matter to developers. Cold build times, when building from scratch and warm build times when you’ve already built and you’re rebuilding following an edit. This article focuses on warm build times, which for... (more…)

Learn how to take advantage of some neat Rust features to help you write better code. (more…)