Polywork Shutting Down

This morning, I got an email notification that polywork.com shutting down.

Polywork was a good idea.

I never updated it regularly because I was worried about such thing (it going away) But I liked the idea of putting regular “updates” and I started this microblog.

Rust: How to print Command Output

I was going thru struct Command in std::process ¹

Obviously, I tried the very first code snippet in the rust playground. There is a very convinient ▸ to run the sample code.

The code ran without any errors.

But no output 🤔

Finally got Auto Complete working in Helix

I have been using Helix as an editor, not as an IDE. But one of the USP of Helix is LSP support out of the box

Recently, I’ve been programming in rust.

Helix is also written in rust.

So I think it is natural that they would support rust LSP rust-analyzer and it does.

But I wasn’t getting auto completions 😞

Rust: Unit tests in a separate file

In rust, tests are written in the same file as the code. But I want to have the tests in a separate file. Conventionally, only the integration tests are written in files under tests folder. 1 I just wanted to have the unit tests in a separate file. So I created a file src/my_tests.rs and moved all the tests there. But cargo test kept saying running 0 tests Turns out, I’m not the only one.

Updated the README for the Theme Repo

It has been little over 2 years since I forked and updated jnjosh’s internet-weblog theme While I made several changes to my fork, I never updated the README. till now that is. During last few days, I updated the README to match my fork. These are minor changes, and majority of the README is still from the original (For the things that have not changed) If you are curious, have a look 😄

Jujutsu: Working With Git

After reading (not done) Steve’s Tutorial and Official doc 1 (which mentions Steve’s tutorial anyway) I decided that actually using it on real projects is the way to go. Here is the workflow (after a few 2 iterations 3) that works jj new : Declare your intention to start new work. jj describe : Intention alone is not enough 😀. What will you be working on ? Now work. Make changes.

Jujutsu : git compatible but better DVCS

I learnt about Jujutsu from the “Rust in Production” podcast episode about Git Butler One of the attractive quality about it is that it works with existing git repos 1 First superpower : Start using it with existing git repo locally cloned using jj git init --git-repo=. 2 This creates a .jj folder in the existing repo. .jj and .git co-exist peacefully But I didn’t know that. So for the first project to try Jujutsu, I jj git cloned my existing repo in a new folder, so that I have “old” git repo as well as jujutsu repo.

Rust: Doubly Linked List

No, this is not a post about how to implement doubly linked list in rust. Or ir could be a very short post, since doubly linked list in built-in the std::collection as LinkedList Following functions are available: new : Creates new/empty linked list push_back : Adds an element to the list push_front : Since this is doubly linked list, element can be added at the beginning as well. Nice! pop_back and pop_front : Remove an element from the list clear : empty the entire list append : Append one list to another to make bigger list.