Since I’m now a Rust developer by day, I’m trying to flatten my learning curve by using Rust for pet/learning projects. Trying to pick a task small enough to learn and looking for a calculator that is usable directly from the command-line, I didn’t find anything I liked that was really simple. I’m aware of calculators like bc(1), dc(1), kalker and of course calc in Emacs. All of these are extraordinary in their own right.…

Recently my interest in the Go programming language changed from dormant back to active. Being a .NET developer by day and frankly getting new feature fatigue. I was drawn to a simpler world. I studied Go in the past using e.g. exercism and watching every Rob Pike youtube video I could find. I brushed up on what I learned before and found that with the introduction of Go modules, life improved quite a bit.…

This blog has been dormant for quite some time. But I would like to take this oppertunity to promote a special site that has stolen my heart over the last couple of weeks. It is a tool for learning that runs with the devil. The site I’m talking about is exercism.io, to quote their byline: Crowd-sourced code reviews on daily practice problems. The site is currently in public beta, but I have not seen any problems with it yet.…