Resting on young shoulders, a white coffin is carried through a youth centre in southeast London. The scene looks like a funeral. That is the intention - but it is something else entirely. Inside the coffin is a large sculpture: a bloodied knife carved wi... See more
As Hungarians prepare to vote in April’s parliamentary elections, they will have to navigate a highly-distorted media market. Once intended to serve the public interest through unbiased reporting, Hungary’s state-owned media has been repurposed into a pro... See more
The Two Faces of Tokio's Semaphore: A Tale of Patience and Ruthlessness Why choosing between acquire_owned and try_acquire_owned might be the most important decision your async Rust code ever makes The Night Everything Broke (A bit dramatic? I know! but w... See more
When to Use (and Avoid) collect() in Rust 1.91.1 I spent an embarrassing amount of time debugging a lifetime error last week. Let me save you the trouble. I was building a parser for OCR responses from my llamacpp server running LightOCR. The HTTP endpoin... See more
Here's the thing about concurrent programming in Rust: the moment you try to share data between threads, the compiler forces you to pick a side. You can't sit on the fence. Either you embrace the "one owner at a time" philosophy of channels, or you accept... See more