Maurizio Del Corno druzn3k

What to evaluate and consider before adding usage of new third-party crates.

These are not exact requirements but questions to investigate and discuss to help reason around the health, safety, maintainability, and more around crates.

This can also be read as an opinionated guide for crate authors of what our (Embark's) guidelines and recommendations are, though should not be taken too literally.

Legend: 🔒 Must have, ⭐️ Should have, 👍 Nice to have, ℹ️ Info

A half-hour to learn Zig

This is inspired by https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust/

Basics

the command zig run my_code.zig will compile and immediately run your Zig program. Each of these cells contains a zig program that you can try to run (some of them contain compile-time errors that you can comment out to play with)

Strings

`String.prototype.*`

None of the string methods modify this – they always return fresh strings.

charAt(pos: number): string ^ES1

Returns the character at index pos, as a string (JavaScript does not have a datatype for characters). str[i] is equivalent to str.charAt(i) and more concise (caveat: may not work on old engines).

Autodesk Fusion 360 on Linux

In the Web Browser

Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Debian,... users can finally use Autodesk Fusion 360 in the Linux Browser now.

https://myhub.autodesk360.com

On Chromium 55.0.2843.0 I get NET::ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED.

Edit: This list is now maintained in the rust-anthology repo.

Introduction
Ownership
- Where Rust Really Shines
- Rust Means Never Having to Close a Socket
The Problem with Single-threaded Shared Mutability

Achieving warp speed with Rust

Elm best practices

Style guide

You got your hands on some data that was leaked from a social network and you want to help the poor people.

Luckily you know a government service to automatically block a list of credit cards.

The service is a little old school though and you have to upload a CSV file in the exact format. The upload fails if the CSV file contains invalid data.

The CSV files should have two columns, Name and Credit Card. Also, it must be named after the following pattern:

YYYYMMDD.csv.

	#!/bin/bash -eu

	# Uses apt-get to download packages and all recursive dependencies to an apt
	# repository compatible directory.
	#
	# Usage:
	# aptRecurse [-o OUT_DIRECTORY] PACKAGE_NAME [PACKAGE_NAME]...
	#
	# (Credit to this StackOverflow comment
	# https://stackoverflow.com/a/45489718/868777)

	1. Highlight a recommended option,
	2. Allow users to switch currency (€/$/£)
	3. Allow users to switch pricing monthly/yearly
	4. Keep the entire pricing plan area clickable
	5. Use slider to calculate how much a user would save
	6. Provide free first month for good engagement
	7. Prominently highlight testimonials prominently
	8. Repeating call to action on top and bottom
	9. Sell benefits instead of features
	10. Indicate that users can cancel any time