Nik's Blog 🦀

Posts in 2025

• 26 Jun

  Associated traits will bring Rust 1 step closer to having higher-kinded types

• 19 May

  I forked Clippy to write 5 custom lints in order to enforce Evil Rust

• 16 May

  A cursed way to combine module paths in Rust’s declarative macros

• 7 May

  How to make a function in Rust which accepts either a value T, or an updater Fn(T) -> T

• 13 Apr

  Iced sets an example of a Rust UI library. It got me onboard in writing UIs in a functional, pure style. Here’s why

• 7 Apr

  Rust has many reserved keywords like become. But what will they do?

• 2 Apr

  My development environment is fully written in Rust! And 7 Alternatives written in Rust I’m excited about

• 29 Mar

  Rust’s format! macro is slow for simple string concatenation. But why?

• 27 Feb

  Rust’s macros like include_str! have a superpower, but how can our code achieve it?

• 25 Feb

  I thought TypeScript’s type system was powerful. And then I tried Rust.

• 30 Jan

  I switched from Zsh to Nushell. It’s a beautiful shell, I’m never going back!

Posts in 2024

• 4 Oct

  I gave Helix a try and now I can’t see myself using any other text editor

• 2 Oct

  I switched to NixOS from Arch Linux and I’m never going back

• 22 Sep

  Quest to understand the idea of “Everything is a file” in Linux

• 11 Sep

  Neovim tips and life hacks that significantly improved my productivity

• 2 Sep

  How I install Arch Linux with full disk encryption

• 21 Aug

  I was forced to use Linux. But now I love it.

• 17 Apr

  What you might not know about Semantic Blockquotes in HTML