September 2023

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WednesdaySeptember, 2023

Welcome to this September issue!

I added some tags to the articles, here's a list:

⭐ : Highlighted article
🦀 : Comes from the This Week in Rust newsletter
🇫🇷 : The article is in French
🎥/🔊 : Is either a video or an audio.

Rust

Testing sudo-rs and improving sudo along the way

Ferrous Systems is a Berlin based Rust Consultancy

ferrous-systems.com

Btw, I've been volunteering a PR on the sudo-rs project to implement sudo -e (a.k.a sudoedit) which is not yet supported.

[🦀] This isn’t the way to speed up Rust compile times — This isn’t the way to speed up Rust compile times - Xe’s Blog

xeiaso.net

[🦀] Rust Cryptography Should be Written in Rust

briansmith.org

Use Rust in shell scripts — Kurt Lawrence

kurtlawrence.info

[⭐🦀] Async Rust Is A Bad Language — Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.

bitbashing.io

Are we embedded yet? - Blog - Tweede golf — Rust is maturing and every year more software is being made with it. In fact, Rust can be used as a competitor to C. In this article I will argue that this is now also the case for embedded Rust!

tweedegolf.nl

[🦀] I Wrote A String Type · mcyoung

mcyoung.xyz

[🦀] Choosing a more optimal `String` type

swatinem.de

[⭐] Flexible Tracing with Rust and OpenTelemetry OTLP

Exporting traces to Jaeger, Honeycomb and other backends using Rust tracing and OpenTelemetry.

broch.tech

[🦀] Implied bounds and perfect derive · baby steps

smallcultfollowing.com

[⭐] Rust Atomics and Locks by Mara Bos

Low-level Concurrency in Practice. This practical book helps Rust programmers of all levels gain a clear understanding of low-level concurrency. You’ll learn everything about atomics and …

marabos.nl

I'm halfway though this resource and Mara explains very well all the concepts about concurrency, locks and atomics.

Stories

[⭐] Shamir Secret Sharing — It’s 3am. Paul, the head of PayPal database administration carefully enters his elaborate passphrase at a keyboard in a darkened cubicle of 1840 Embarcadero Road in East Palo Alto, for the fifth time.…

levch.in

General

[⭐] How to Test

Alternative titles: Unit Tests are a Scam Test Features, Not Code Data Driven Integrated Tests

github.io

[🎥] I Wrote Minecraft for a Calculator

Ever since high school, I’ve wished I could play Minecraft on my calculator. Now it’s time to make that dream a reality.

youtube.com

[⭐🎥] How to query (almost) everything

hytradboi.com

GitHub - obi1kenobi/trustfall: A query engine for any combination of data sources. Query your files and APIs as if they were databases! — A query engine for any combination of data sources. Query your files and APIs as if they were databases! - GitHub - obi1kenobi/trustfall: A query engine for any combination of data sources. Query y…

github.com

A brief history of computers — LessWrong

Recently I’ve been learning about the history of computers. I find it to be incredibly interesting. I’d like to write a post about it to summarize an…

lesswrong.com

[🎥] Introducing runes

Rethinking ‘rethinking reactivity’

svelte.dev

Fixing For Loops in Go 1.22 - The Go Programming Language

Go 1.21 shipped a preview of a change in Go 1.22 to make for loops less error-prone.

go.dev

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python — Blog about linguistics, programming, and my projects

vgel.me

Shamir’s Secret Sharing shortcomings — After extensive research we rejected using Shamir’s Secret Sharing scheme because it exposes clients to many more risks. We recommend multisig instead.

keys.casa

GitHub - Dragon-Hatcher/type-system-chess: Chess implemented entirely in the Rust and TS type systems.

Chess implemented entirely in the Rust and TS type systems. - GitHub - Dragon-Hatcher/type-system-chess: Chess implemented entirely in the Rust and TS type systems.

github.com

ML

The A-Z of AI

Discover more about what artificial intelligence is, how it works and how it’s changing the world around us.

withgoogle.com

Opnions

Driverless cars may already be safer than human drivers

I learned a lot reading dozens of Waymo and Cruise crash reports.

understandingai.org

Two problems — Once upon a time, Jamie Zawinski said,

nedbatchelder.com

[🎥] Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake - Tony Hoare

Video is from: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billion-Dollar-Mistake-Tony-HoareIt deserves to be more widely known and seen.Summary-…

youtube.com

[🦀] Breaking Tradition: Why Rust Might Be Your Best First Language — Ah, the firsts in life! Your first bike, first crush, first taste of a bizarre foreign delicacy, and… your first programming language…

medium.com

Comparative Analysis — Most languages provide 6 comparison operators:

github.io

Work done

Talking about tldr pages spec (PR) to finally fix an old issue (that I've reported too).
Contributing to digestclub which turned OSS this month. (Yes, it is the very tool I'm actually using)

Adding text blocks edit support, Update the newsletter email style
Volunteering a PR on the sudo-rs project to implement sudo -e.
There's been some really nice progress on declarative-api.

Adding Spans, Sources, Diagnostics and almost finished the parser.

Comic

Here's a comic by @ryanrwinchester I came across in my timeline right after reading an article on async functions. Very accurate!

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