Why I built Heine
A Rust static site generator that treats a website as a resolved graph of relationships, and the build validates that graph before producing files.
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5 min read
Thomas Weitzel
Do, or do not. There is no try. – Yoda
My findings while exploring various aspects of programming.
A Lesson from a Zola Patch
A small parsing fix led me into years of Zola math discussions and changed how I think about contributing upstream.
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Trampolines and algebraic Fibonacci in Rust
Rust does not guarantee tail call optimization. We implement a trampoline and discover that Fibonacci is not about numbers at all.
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Four architectures, one system
What eleven years of running the same production software taught me about simplicity, failure, and change.
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Adding audio to your blog
Three ways to add audio to your blog: browser controls, styled native controls, and Howler.js.
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Static lifetimes and factories
Some Rust values, particularly string literals, persist beyond their variable's scope, and how this behavior enables factory-like patterns.
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