LesnyRumcajs personal blog.
This is not really a fire-once post, but rather a living document of quality resources around the Rust programming language I find useful and want to share (most likely with my future self). Books My preferred source of knowledge, especially in the era of AI slop cesspool. In general, I find O’Reilly and No Starch Press to be the best publishers for programming books. The publishers I didn’t...
The cargo-script is not yet stabilised, but it is already available in the nightly Rust. If you’re reading this a few months after this post’s publication, it might already be stabilised, with slightly different syntax. Best to follow the stabilisation issue in rust-lang repo. What is cargo-script? 2026 started with a very exciting feature coming to Rust: the cargo-script. It allows you to r...
Do you get tired of the unforgiving Rust’s borrow checker? Is yet another undefined behaviour in your C++ codebase making you want to drop everything and go on an adventure? Or perhaps your fingers are getting sore from generating Java boilerplate with Alt+Enter? If so, trekking in the Himalayas is what you need! The Himalayas are the home to some of the world’s highest peaks, including Mount ...
This is not a comprehensive guide to memory analysis in Rust, but rather a collection of tools and techniques I found helpful during a witch-hunt for memory issues in Forest. Most tools have documentation, likely dedicated guides and even entire books! The problem My Chrome tab is using so much memory! You might be complaining about your Chrome tab using 2 GiB of memory, but have you ever t...
The problem - social media cesspool and the algorithm Have you noticed that recently, your LinkedIn, Facebook, or other social media feeds have become a cesspool of aggressive ads, wannabe influencers, and otherwise irrelevant content? Me too! Some examples from my recent LinkedIn feed: A rant about the existence of caps lock key. A text wall about how putting a message on a tree during ...