Huon on the internet

Hitting a bug is no fun: maybe it interferes with your work or play, or maybe it means you have to dive down a debugging rabbit hole. Remotely debugging a bug someone else has found is even less fun… I’ve settled on using a shell script for sharing executable...

Rust’s match statement can do a lot of things, even C-style fallthough to the next branch, despite having no real support for it. It turns out to a “shallow” feature, where the C to Rust translation is easily done, without needing to understand the code...

The conventional units for expressing the mileage of an electric vehicle, like Wh/km (“watt-hours per kilometer”), are dimensionally equivalent to force, N (“newtons”). It seems this has a useful physical interpretation, and we can do some rough predictive...

Shell scripts sometimes have to append data to a file. Redirecting output with >> is the conventional way and works fine, but using tee -a instead is a usually better default, especially in continuous integration. It’s just as easy and gives...