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• Rust ownership, taught by the compiler's own errors

  Rust ownership explained through real borrow-checker errors: E0382 use-after-move, E0502 borrow conflicts, E0597 dangling references, E0106 missing lifetimes. Every error message pasted verbatim from rustc, with the fix that compiles.

  Jan 2, 2027·11 min read

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• Rust for CLI tools: when it's worth it (and when a shell script is fine)

  Rust gives a command line tool a single static binary, no runtime, predictable performance, strong types, and a mature ecosystem like clap, anyhow, thiserror, serde, and ignore. But it also costs build time, borrow-checker friction, and ceremony. Here is how I decide between Rust, Python, Go, and a plain shell script.

  Nov 13, 2026·9 min read

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