Lately I’ve been poking through some things I’ve written over the years, and something occurs to me: in my writing, I don’t “sound like me.” Some of that is that Now is different than Back Then - some of the things I’ve been reading are nearly a decade old at this point and a lot can change in 10 years - but I don’t think that’s entirely it. It’s…almost like becoming a different person?...
I’ve been spending a little time with Rust, and I have to admit that I’ve been having fun. No, I haven’t become your sterotypical Rust zealot - I’m entirely too cynical for that - but I have genuinely enjoyed discovering some of the features and (un-)pleasant surprises of the language. I’ve also been wanting to write down some of the things I’ve learned. Over the course of writing this the damn thing got too long, so I’m going to try and split it up into a few different posts....
In the Beginning… A short time ago1 in a galaxy not so far away2 I maintained a company-internal blog at a former employer. I posted once a week without fail for over 8 years - 420-some-odd posts. It’s something I’m still proud of. The name of the blog was inGraph of the Week. igotw started with a directory full of screenshots I’d taken of interesting graphs/telemetry of the systems I was supporting....
This is the first post. More to come! :-)