Category: Coding

  • Code assistants

    I’ve Co-pilot enabled while following a book, The Rust Programming Language (Klabnick and Nichols, 2023). Can’t help but notice that I get code recommendations that are identical to the book. I assume this is because not only is the book’s code on GitHub but there’s a bunch of people following along using GitHub. At what…

  • Rust

    Rust

    Picked up a book, Programming Rust (2nd Edition) by Jim Blandy, and have been working through it over the holidays (non-stop party here). Published in late 2021, it’s surprising how much of the code doesn’t work and it isn’t encouraging to spend half an hour searching for solutions to an early worked example. Nothing in…

  • Static sites with Jekyll in Ubuntu

    Static sites with Jekyll in Ubuntu

    Setup Ruby Remove the default Ubuntu install, otherwise you’ll get an error You don’t have write permissions for the /var/lib/gems/3.x.x Directory and configure Ruby to install gems to a folder in your home.