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Judy2k’s Blog

Some of the thoughts here will be well thought-out. Others may just be downright stupid. You decide - it’s not like I was going to change your mind anyway.

Run Any Project with 'r'

July 28, 2025 - 1394 words - 7 mins
Add an 'r' abbreviation to your fish shell config, that will run (or build, or test) your project, no matter what technology it's built with.
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Using Fortune to Reinforce Habits

July 23, 2025 - 1449 words - 8 mins
A tutorial showing how I use fortune to remind me what tools I have installed on my computer.
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Rust Trait Implementations and References

February 22, 2023 - 1475 words - 8 mins
If you implement a trait on a type, and then take a reference to that type, does the reference *also* implement the trait? For a while I thought so! Let me explain why.
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Use Justfiles to Work with MongoDB

May 21, 2021 - 1412 words - 8 mins
I have started to write Justfiles for all my new projects. There’s a good chance you haven’t heard of Just or Justfiles. They’re very similar to Make and Makefiles. Whereas Make is designed to build artifacts from source files, and combine them in potentially complex ways, Just is “just” a task runner.
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Automating Blog Deployment with GitHub Actions

March 12, 2021 - 635 words - 4 mins
Okay! Day 2 of the new blogging platform, and I’ve solved the automated deployment problem using GitHub Actions.
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The Traditional First Post

March 11, 2021 - 470 words - 3 mins
I guess it’s traditional to write a first blog post about the new blogging platform. Tradition, right? Not cliché?
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