rust Posts

A collection of my posts on rust. Whether I'm trying to build something new or figure out how to break it, these notes, fixes, and deep dives document my process. I hope you find them useful.

September 22, 2025
- git-gen Dev Log #1
  
  I'm building a CLI to write better git commits. This is my dev log on getting the first messy, working version up and running with Gemini.
September 15, 2025
- xdgdir v0.8.0
  
  I got sidetracked building a tool and ended up writing a tiny Rust crate to find XDG paths. These are my notes on how I built xdgdir.
September 14, 2025
- envfmt v0.1.0
  
  I needed to expand environment variables for another project, so I built my first Rust crate. This is my log on envfmt and using traits for testing.
January 7, 2024
- Load .env in Rust
  
  My personal log on loading .env files in Rust. I use the envy crate to parse variables into a struct, which makes handling config much easier.
January 6, 2024
- Fix Deserialize in Rust
  
  Fixing the "cannot find derive macro Deserialize" error with serde in Rust. A quick note that the derive feature needs to be enabled in Cargo.toml.
January 5, 2024
- Rust SeaORM Actions
  
  My personal cheat sheet for basic SeaORM operations. It's my reference for how to insert, select, update, and delete a simple row in Rust.
January 4, 2024
- Rust SeaORM Tables
  
  I needed a way to manage database tables in Rust. These are my notes on using sea-orm-cli to set up and run my first migration with SeaORM.
January 3, 2024
- “?” Operator in Rust
  
  A quick note to myself on Rust's ? operator. It's a cleaner way to handle Result types by propagating errors instead of using a match block.
December 26, 2016
- Whitespace Tokenizer in Rust
  
  My note-to-self for writing a UTF-8 tokenizer in Rust. The trick is reading byte-by-byte and only checking for whitespace on single-byte chars.
February 8, 2016
- Debug Trait in Rust
  
  A quick reference for making structs printable in Rust. It shows how to use the Debug trait with the derive macro and how to implement it manually.