Tags » rust

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  create_thumbnail: create smaller versions of images

  I’ve made a new tool that allows me to reuse my thumbnailing code across all my projects.

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  emptydir: look for (nearly) empty directories and delete them

  I’ve been writing tools in Rust again.

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  dominant_colours, a CLI tool for finding dominant colours in an image

  A new tool for playing with images.

• randline: get a random selection of lines in a file using reservoir sampling

  I wrote a tiny Rust tool to get random samples in a memory-efficient way, and I learnt a lot while doing it.

• How I test Rust command-line apps with assert_cmd

  Some practical examples of how this handy crate lets me write clear, readable tests.

• TIL: Use std::io::IsTerminal to detect if you’re running in the terminal in Rust

  This allows me to suppress ANSI escape codes if the output is going somewhere other than the terminal.

• TIL: Get a Palette colour as a command-line argument with Clap

  Wrapping a Palette:Srgb in a struct and implementing FromStr for the struct allows you to take hexadecimal colours as command-line inputs.

• My (tiny) contribution to Rust 1.64

  A suggestion for a better error message to help people who work in multiple languages.

• TIL: How to use hex colours with the palette crate

  You can use Srgb::from_str() to parse a hexadecimal string as a colour in the palette crate.

• Running a Rust binary in Glitch

  Using different targets to build Rust binaries that will run in Glitch.

• Creating coloured bookshelf graphics in Rust

  Explaining some code that draws coloured rectangles in a way that looks a bit like an upside-down bookshelf.

• The ever-improving error messages of Rust

  An improvement to Rust’s error handling that I almost reported, until I realised it was fixed.

• Backing up full-page archives from Pinboard

  A Rust utility for saving local copies of my full-page archives from Pinboard.