Just is a general-purpose command runner written in Rust with a make-like syntax.

If you're interested in hacking on just, I'd love to help!

This is the 200th time I have Googled "CSS Box Model" and I have become exceedling efficient at it.

TL;DR

Intermodal is a new command-line BitTorrent metainfo¹ utility for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The binary is called imdl.

It can create, display, and verify .torrent files, as well as generate magnet links.

It has lots of features and niceties, is easy to install and run, and is hopefully just the beginning of an ambitious project to make decentralized content sharing better.

Get it here, try it out, and let me know what you think!

I'm eager to hear what works, what doesn't, and what features you'd like to see added. I'll be working on novel functionality—more on that below—and I'd love to hear your critical feedback and ideas.

You can get in touch by open an issue, joining the discord server, or sending me an email.

Happy sharing!

I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.

Popcorn Time-style video streaming apps seem to be vulnerable to legal action by rightsholders.

For example, the popcorntime.sh domain was recently suspended, and the operator of a site which merely provided information about how to obtain and use Popcorn Time was sentenced to prison.

Although given that Popcorn Time's servers do not themselves host infringing content this may seem a bit unfair, it is simply the reality of the world we live in.

It is interesting to note, however, that although web browsers can be used in exactly the same way as Popcorn Time, namely searching for and viewing copyrighted movies, the developers of web browsers have thus far not faced successful legal challenges.

Computering is a party. The stack is best visualized as a bunch of Jenga blocks on the floor, and the heap as a bunch of balloons floating around bumping into each other on the ceiling. The fact that the stack usually grows downwards in memory is a travesty.

I've often been asked for suggestions for an appropriate first project in Rust, and I think that writing a version of a unix utility is a great choice, for a bunch of reasons!

• There is a diverse and colorful cast of characters to choose from that all provide an appropriate scope and difficulty level, such as:
• tree: Print a graphical representation tree in visual form
• strings: Extract plaintext strings from binary files
• wc: Count the lines, characters, and bytes in a file
• ls: List the contents of a directory
• nc: Read and write bytes to network sockets
• cal: Print a cute text calendar
• cat: Copy streams to stdout
• cut: Extract delimited fields from linewise text records
• sort: Sort lines
• uniq: Print only unique lines

• obtain

  Rustup is the rust toolchain manager. It can install Rust and keep it up-to-date.

• write

  Visual Studio Code is easy to use and has great Rust integration.

• read

  The Rust Book is a comprehensive guide to the entire language.

• play

  The Rust Playground allows you to quickly try out and share code snippets.

• exercise

  Rustlings are bite-sized exercises for learning rust.

• chat

  The Rust-Lang discord instance is a great place to chat about rust.

Programs first crawled from the murky oceans as simple lists of instructions that executed in sequence. From these humble beginnings they have since evolved an astonishing number of ways of delinearizing.

In fact, most programming paradigms simply amount to different ways to transform a linear source file into a program with nonlinear behavior.

Some examples:

• gotos that unconditionally jump to another point in the program
• an abort instruction that stops the program at some point other than the end
• a macro facility that substitutes one instruction for one or more other instructions
• a source file concatenation facility that concatenates multiple source files
• an include directive that is substituted for the contents of a source file
• structured repetition and selection, a la for, while, if, and switch
• subroutines and functions
• array oriented programming that replace explicit repetition with implicit repetition
• first class functions which delegation of behavior to the caller
• object oriented programming with dynamic dispatch, which allow the runtime type of an object to determine which instructions to execute
• aspect oriented programming, pattern matching against the structure of the call stack to execute instructions when functions are called or return
• event driven programming, executing instructions in response to external events
• declarative programming, which essentially delegates execution of one program to another