Ben Lovy articles - 114 total
Oops, I Did It Again...I Made A Rust Web API And It Was Not That Difficult
Over two years ago (oof), I posted a walkthrough of my Rust implementation of todo-mvp by...
Prepare your Rust API docs for Github Pages
Rust comes with a built-in documentation system, rustdoc. It's great, use it. Github comes with a...
Workstation Management With Nix Flakes: Build a Cmake C++ Package
Last time, we looked at how to produce a development shell using Nix Flakes that contained the Python...
Workstation Management With Nix Flakes: Jupyter Notebook Example
What? If you're reading DEV, your computer is probably your primary productivity tool. ...
Pretend You're Using A Different Linux Distribution With One Docker Command
The Why Lots of developers use Linux, but "Linux" is a vast category. There are a lot of...
Quickly Grab Stuff From Your Git History
While working through a problem, my colleague remembered a prior version of our application had a...
Rust Function Pointers Across FFI Boundary
Hi DEV - it's been ages! I'm stumped on a problem, and remembered my old adage: "ask DEV stuff, they...
Using Bitwise Operators: Why Waste Space Use Many Bits When Few Bits Do Trick?
These days, we live in the future. Memory is very cheap. When we need to store an integer, in most...
Prime Sieve in (Hopefully) Idiomatic Ruby (And Some Books You Should Read)
Hey y'all. Been awhile. Books are at the bottom. Earlier this week, I got my first "star" on an ex...
Share Your Conway's Game Of Life
Sadly, John Horton Conway has passed away. While Conway's contributions to computational mathematics...
Quick And Dirty Java Makefile
I'm not a Java user and know next to nothing about it. Today was my first time ever running a line o...
Setting Up A Fresh Ruby Project
To start up a Ruby project, you don't need to do anything other than put some Ruby code in a file and...
Learning German
This is pretty off-topic for DEV, but I think some of y'all might have something to say anyway. As I...
Getting Cozy with Ruby
When I first approached Ruby, I basically looked at it like "dynamic C++", because that was the best...
Ben++
Much to not-too-far-past-Ben's surprise, I accepted an offer this morning for my first full-time soft...
How did YOU learn Ruby?
So, there's a chance I might need to get myself up to speed with Ruby (for real, and for quick), and...
Google released a Lighthouse extension for Firefox!
Get it while it's hot. No devtools version yet (real or planned), that's a more significant rewrite....
What were some quirks and gotchas about working with Python 1?
Python 2 was released in October 2000, but Python 1 was released to the world six years earlier, in 1...
Hyper Webapp Template
Like many of us, I'm quite lazy. When making a wep application, lots of the core functionality will...
How many of y'all are using DEV Connect?
I think DEV's chat feature is super cool, but I'm coming up on my two-year badge in a few weeks and I...
Get Started Writing Scheme
TL;DR: Download Racket, run plt-r6rs my-file.scm. Bookmark this book and check it when you have ques...
Steam Proton Is Great
My (awesome) fiancé picked me up a copy of Disco Elysium for my birthday recently (she's really aweso...
Automatically Generate Rust Modules With Cargo Build Scripts
I just learned how to use Cargo build scripts. They're pretty cool. The Context If you d...
Do you merge branches locally or create pull requests for personal projects?
I'm not sure if this is #help. Is there a correct, universally accepted better practice? In that ca...
Thirty Green Squares
I just got my 30th consecutive GitHub square! While it doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of thin...
Use Multi-Stage Docker Builds For Statically-Linked Rust Binaries
I'm making a static website in Rust. Last time I did this, I used Docker to automate the deployment....
C++ Template Specialization - Syntax Note
I sat down yesterday with @codemouse92 via Visual Studio Live Share for VS Code -- which is an awesom...
How dependent are you on your development environment configuration?
How much would it slow you down if you were required to get work done on a clean install of your OS,...
Phabricator is Phabulous
A tour of the Phabricator collaboration tool.