I’ve had a beard for as long as I’ve been able to grow one. A few years before I could grow a decent one, and a few years and counting after it began to betray my age. It’s very much part of my identity. Post, a few days tardy, for the July…
The way Rust organizes code can be tricky for Scala developers. The concepts do not map one-to-one. Further confusing matters, Rust packages are not the closest thing to Scala packages. There are loose translations to Scala to help us get o…
100 Questions for Webmasters seemed like a good way to spend a day where the heat index is approaching 100°F. Please introduce yourself. Check my About page or Mastodon intro. How long have you been making websites? My first was in 1996. It…
I am still primarily a Scala 2 developer, so I’ll continue to lean into sealed traits in these examples. Scala 3 enum covers many of the same ideas, and in a syntax closer to Rust’s! Defining an enum # A Rust enum implements sum types, as S…
Chapter Five introduces Rust’s structs, which are similar to Scala’s case classes. Most of the differences come down to Rust’s borrow checking, mutability, and use of traits instead of inheritance from Java. The book club at $WORK got ahead…
This configuration provides a Home Manager module for general Python development.I used to configure Micromamba here, but I abandoned the Conda ecosystem. Then I used uv, which I soured on when it was bought by OpenAI. I haven’t fully aband…
Welcome to the Emacs Carnival for June, 2026. This month’s prompt is underappreciated features built into Emacs. Chapter Three is about the fundamental data types and control flow structures of Rust. Rust has a few more integral types, and
Welcome to the Emacs Carnival for June, 2026. This month’s prompt is underappreciated features built into Emacs. Thanks to tusharhero for the original topic idea. With all the great third-party packages, it’s easy to overlook the treasures
My Emacs configuration has three layers: The config is an exploration of how comfortable stock Emacs can be without any external depednencies. The answer is not completely, but much more than I thought. The separation is useful if I’m ever
The Emacs early init file is for customizations that must happen before the main init file runs. It is not a full Emacs Lisp package, nor should it depend on any. Everything here is an optimization and is considered optional. Lisp # GPL-3.0…
This was my shortest day of the shortest December Adventure. In order to conclude with some sense of accomplishment, I set my home-manager’s Emacs to point at Crab Juice. It’s incomplete, but no Emacs configuration is ever complete. Now thi…
Further enrichment of Crab Juice Emacs. Nix and Scala support were the first two modes that I missed at work with no native equivalent. I anticipate Khlav Kalash will continue to grow faster, but I now have a clear path forward with this tw…