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. Sometimes the things that Rust does for you can obfuscate what's really going on under the hood, and I discovered one of those recent…

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…

Okay! Day 2 of the new blogging platform, and I've solved the automated deployment problem using GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions to Test Python I worked on a small Python project a little while ago and wanted to get CI running with as little effort as possible. I'd heard good things about GitHub Acti…

I guess it's traditional to write a first blog post about the new blogging platform. Tradition, right? Not cliché?