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Judy2k's Blog

Some of the thoughts here will be well thought-out. Others may just be downright stupid. You decide - it's not like I was going to change your mind anyway.

Rust Trait Implementations and References

February 22, 2023 - 1475 words - 8 mins
If you implement a trait on a type, and then take a reference to that type, does the reference also implement the trait? For a while I thought so! Let me explain why. Sometimes the things that Rust does for you can obfuscate what's really going on under the hood, and I discovered one of those recent…
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Use Justfiles to Work with MongoDB

May 21, 2021 - 1411 words - 8 mins
I have started to write Justfiles for all my new projects. There's a good chance you haven't heard of Just or Justfiles. They're very similar to Make and Makefiles. Whereas Make is designed to build artifacts from source files, and combine them in potentially complex ways, Just is "just" a…
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Automating Blog Deployment with GitHub Actions

March 12, 2021 - 634 words - 4 mins
Okay! Day 2 of the new blogging platform, and I've solved the automated deployment problem using GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions to Test Python I worked on a small Python project a little while ago and wanted to get CI running with as little effort as possible. I'd heard good things about GitHub Acti…
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The Traditional First Post

March 11, 2021 - 470 words - 3 mins

I guess it's traditional to write a first blog post about the new blogging platform. Tradition, right? Not cliché?

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