I’ve been looking at web-scraping for a side project of mine and thought I’d have a look at what Rust has to offer. I found the select crate, which seemed to have all right stuff. Now I just needed some website for target practice 🎯. I was reading an article on…

I was reading about the PhantomData type and came across the point made that it can be used as a mechanism for controlling lifetimes. From here I started to play around with it a bit and came up with something interesting. The example itself might be a bit awkward, but…

I was browsing through the Rust standard library and came across PhantomData. I didn’t know what it was used for, so I started reading more about it. Rust won’t allow you to declare a type parameter without using it. The solution is PhantomData. The PhantomData type can be used in…

From one to the other The select statement in Go makes it pretty easy to have multiple tasks compete against each other. Which ever channel returns first wins and you get to work with the result. There are many examples of how to do this in Go and all you need is already built in…

A few nights ago I stumbled upon this thread on reddit, discussing database migrations.Part of the discussion focused around a zero-downtime strategy. The strategy of always adding and never changing an existing column came up. I later ended up reading this blog and watched this talk. After this I really…

A fixed-size array, denoted [T; N], for the element type, T, and the non-negative compile-time constant size, N. This is what you find when you read the first few lines of the documentation about the array type in Rust. Let’s go through this piece by piece. …