This is part guide, part post about what you should consider before building a new CLI app in Rust. — Like this article? have questions? Follow me on twitter and ask away:) Before jumping into a cargo new and hitting it, read up and see how to boost your development experience, CLI ergonomics, and project maintainability. Structure When you have a CLI app, you have…

And what’s the tradeoff? — The ability to pick compile time features in Rust can improve your code's performance, size, maintainability, safety, and portability. Below are a few arguments for why you should proactively use features when consuming dependencies and offer those to other library users. Performance Using feature flags in Rust can improve the performance…

A look at our latest open-source tool for programmers — Hyperstack is a new open-source Node.js web framework for builders. It’s not reinventing the wheel, it’s just wrapping a bunch of great wheels and good parts for you to use — in one nice Rails-like package. Good software is simple software that solves complex problems. Building simple software usually requires…

A quick introduction to the open-source tool — Recon is an open-source tool built in Rust 🦀, with great performance and ergonomics for finding files. You might want to: Run some validations or checks in your pipeline — for example, not producing binary files while building Javascript, Or you might want to run a digital forensics task on…

Build a desktop tray starter app using Tauri, Rust, and JavaScript — Tauri is similar to Electron in general. The principles are the same: build apps quickly by using JavaScript for doing most of the app / UI work. However, Tauri takes a radically different approach in how it is implemented, and therefore, achieves better results on virtually every possible criterion. Size Comparison We…

Pop quiz: How do you write and run your daily tasks? — If you have a moderately large React project or a project in Go, or any other kind of language, you probably found yourself needing your own build, tests or CI tasks. For example, for npm or yarn in Node.js, …

tl;dr. I’ve built backpack, a tool written in Rust that helps you use starter and template projects. I also explain what are the TEA and TEAM frameworks for productivity and how to manage Time, Energy and Attention with starter projects. Stater projects are key to unlocking your productivity, for side-projects…

Now that we have source based coverage in Rust, we’re going to look at how to do the following: Run coverage locally Integrate with IDE for inline coverage indicators Run coverage in CI and upload results to a coverage service provider But first, let’s look at the history of code…

Spectral is a DevSecOps startup which I founded, that was born directly into COVID times (Spectral has since been acquired by Check Point 🎉). When I founded the company it was not clear to anyone that COVID is there to stay (it was early COVID days), and obviously it is…