A blog about software engineering, programming languages and technical tinkering
Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog
I don't write this blog in hopes that it will get a lot of traction. I don't market it, I don't try to optimize it for SEO and I I don't even tell my friends and coworkers about it. Although I would of course be delighted to hear someone who …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog
A while ago, I decided that I wanted to have a low-effort way of recording what I learn out in the open. When I publish a blog post I feel compelled to keep the standard of the writing on a fairly high level. I've started dozens of articles that I …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Reviews
I've been learning Rust on and off for the past few months, and The Rust Programming Language has been my primary learning resource during this time. It's a great introduction to the language, and is even freely available online.
Here, I'm reviewing the 2018 print version. Although a little bit …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Reviews
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know is a collection of short essays by experienced programmers. And by short, I mean short: 1-3 fairly tiny pages a piece. If you're on a journey to become a software engineer then this book will give you a crash course in terminology you should …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog
I've been meaning to take this blog into more of the Wiki direction. Or rather some unholy mixture of a Wiki and a blog. An important step in that direction is full text search, which I've now got!
This blog is powered by Pelican, and quite recently a new plugin …