Generate code, docs, and more from a single source — How often do you start projects the same way? With the same boilerplate, same dependencies, same configuration, same everything? If you’re like me, you get your settings dialed in and reuse them in a base project template repeatedly. …

Week 2 of the Rust guide for node.js and JS/TS developers — The second week of the Advent of Rust series goes deeper into Rust and helps port your logic from JavaScript. Day 7: Syntax & Differences Between Rust and JavaScript Day 7 goes over the some of the Rust-specific syntax that will get in your way. We also introduce Vectors and double-ended queues as replacements for JavaScript arrays. Day 8: From objects and classes to HashMaps and structs

Week 1 of the Rust guide for node.js and JS/TS developers — We’re one week (well, six days) in to the Advent of Rust and the response has been phenomenal. The series headlined node.js weekly, hit the top of the JavaScript and Node.js subreddits, got great interaction from JS Daily, and attracted a bunch of people to our Discord channel. …

A Rust guide from a JavaScript perspective — When I started building Vino, I chose Rust because of its rich WebAssembly support. The first few weeks (ahem, months) were rougher than I expected. If it wasn’t for the fact that Rust was so fast and so obnoxiously safe, I would have switched to something easier to use like…

WebAssembly is exciting at first glance but quickly turns into an adventure in software archeology. You spend most of your time piecing together clues from abandoned sites (github projects) and ancient texts (websites) searching for the holy grail. While waPC is not the holy grail, it’s a satisfying solution to…

An application platform honed by attackers — I’ve been heads down for a long time and I’m finally able to come up for air. World, meet Vino Technologies, Inc. We’re building a composable application platform. A platform that gives back what you put in and makes us all faster the more we use it.

Every day we use a programming pattern that makes software needlessly expensive to build and maintain. It causes countless bugs and security vulnerabilities. It needs constant refactoring. It’s difficult to test, it’s tedious to document, and it’s flexibility makes every implementation a unique snowflake that leads to unending code duplication. …

A few weeks ago I decided to take PTO to focus on understanding the current state of Rust and Web Assembly (WASM), two promising technologies that look completely unrelated. Rust is a language designed for systems programming, WASM is a bytecode standard designed for web browsers to be an alternative…

with shift-refactor and shift-interpreter — I’m super excited to release Hackium, shift-refactor, and shift-interpreter — three tools that I’ve been using to analyze, automate, and manipulate web sites for the past year. These projects have been a long time in the making, they incorporate techniques I started playing with 20+ years ago. …