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Hi! I'm Amos. I make long articles and videos about how computers work — well,
how they sometimes work. My content is long-form, didactic and exploratory, and
often an excuse to teach Rust.

As of November 2022, I rely on donations to do this full-time.


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Just paying Figma $15/month because nothing else fucking works
Oct 19, 2023
25 minute read
rant · foss


My family wasn't poor by any stretch of the imagination, but I was raised to
avoid spending money whenever possible.

I was also taught "it's a poor craftsman that blames their tools", which
apparently means "take responsibility for your fuckups", but, to young-me,
definitely sounded more like "you don't deserve nice things".

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Cracking Electron apps open
Jul 03, 2023
8 minute read
electron · rust · asar


I use the draw.io desktop app to make diagrams for my website. I run it on an
actual desktop, like Windows or macOS, but the asset pipeline that converts
.drawio files, to .pdf, to .svg, and then to .svg again (but smaller) runs on
Linux.

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The RustConf Keynote Fiasco, explained
May 31, 2023
18 minute read
rust · governance


Disclosure: At some point in this article, I discuss The Rust Foundation. I have
received a $5000 grant from them in 2023 for making educational articles and
videos about Rust.

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Building a Rust service with Nix
Mar 05, 2023
rust · docker · nix
complete


I often give bits and pieces of advice on how to build Rust stuff the comfy way.
But it can be hard to see how everything comes together, especially when it
comes to, say, deploying a web service in production.

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Advent of Code 2022
Dec 02, 2022
rust · advent-of-code
complete


Let's use the Advent of Code 2022, a series of programming challenges of
increasing difficulty, to learn more about the Rust programming language.

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