quiet misdreavus miniblog

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  • 2020-09-25 the near- and medium-term future of a quiet misdreavus

    an announcement about a new position i'm taking, and some discussion about what it means for my future

  • 2020-09-18 it's time for some color theory

    an announcement post for a randomized text editor color scheme project, and a dive into how it works

  • 2020-05-02 you can call me victoria

    an announcement about changing my chosen name, and a bit of discussion about chosen names in general

  • 2020-02-17 rust ghost, signing off

    announcing my departure from Rust team organizations and contributions

  • 2019-12-08 home: unknown

    thoughts on the concept of "home" and the whirlwind of change surrounding my batch at the Recurse Center

  • 2019-08-23 Is This Magic!? Ferris Explores Rustc!

    a companion to the RustConf 2019 talk with the same name; an introduction to making your first contribution to the Rust compiler

  • 2019-02-19 rustdoc in 2019

    a recap of the 2019 Rust All-Hands from a rustdoc perspective; and the 2019 roadmap for the Rustdoc Team

  • 2018-12-07 rust in the new age

    a wishlist of what i would like to accomplish with Rust in 2019

  • 2018-05-11 on the origin of rustaceans

    an origin story of how i started working with, and later on, Rust

  • 2018-03-09 the union of parallel universes

    breaking down how rustdoc can display docs from multiple platforms at the same time, and why that's significant

  • 2018-02-23 how the ~~sausage~~ doctests get made

    breaking down how rustdoc turns a code sample into a test

  • 2018-02-02 git is a multiverse

    a git tutorial, by way of describing how repositories have at least six spatial dimensions

  • 2018-01-10 not a layer cake analogy

    a discussion of what "intermediate docs" means, and a wishlist of such docs for Rust

  • 2018-01-07 the new wave of rust

    a wishlist of what i would like to accomplish with Rust in 2018

  • 2017-09-18 come work on rustdoc!

    an invitation for new contributors to work on rustdoc, as part of 2017's "impl period", including a walkthrough of writing Pull Requests on GitHub

  • 2017-06-21 a whirlwind tour of rustdoc

    a walkthrough of the internals of Rust's documentation tool, rustdoc

  • 2017-01-01 coherence versus generic traits in rust

    breaking down how Rust's From trait allows for custom implementations, by talking about its coherence system

  • 2016-10-22 notes on building a medium-sized library in rust

    a handful of lessons learned from writing the "egg-mode" twitter library

  • 2016-08-20 my refactoring white whale

    a discussion of refactoring the "egg-mode" library through a series of compiler errors

  • 2016-08-18 possibility space

    a discussion about how my interest in games has changed over time