Regex engine internals as a library

bstr is a byte string library for Rust and its 1.0 version has just been released! It provides string oriented operations on arbitrary sequences of bytes, but is most useful when those bytes are UTF-8. In other words, it provides a string type that is UTF-8 by convention, where as Rust’s built-in string types are guaranteed to be UTF-8. This blog...

One day before Rust 1.0 was released, I published a blog post covering the fundamentals of error handling. A particularly important but small section buried in the middle of the article is named “unwrapping isn’t evil”. That section briefly described that, broadly speaking, using unwrap() is okay if it’s in test/example code or when panicking...

This is a quick post reviewing my Archlinux setup on a System76 Darter Pro (model: darp6) with Coreboot, along with some thoughts about the laptop in general. This is my first laptop upgrade since I purchased a ThinkPad T430 in July 2012 Target audience: Archlinux users looking for a compatible Linux laptop.

I’d like to break from my normal tradition of focusing almost strictly on technical content and share a bit of my own personal relationship with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). While everyone is different, my hope is that sharing my perspective will help build understanding, empathy and trust. This is not meant to be a direct response to...

With csv 1.0 just released, the time is ripe for a tutorial on how to read and write CSV data in Rust. This tutorial is targeted toward beginning Rust programmers, and is therefore full of examples and spends some time on basic concepts. Experienced Rust programmers may find parts of this useful, but would probably be happier with a quick skim....