dezza

September 2022:

This has spread to a far wider audience than I had anticipated - probably my fault for using a title that is in hindsight catnip for link aggregators. I wrote this back in 2021 just as a bunch of personal thoughts of my experiences using Rust over the years (not always well thought through), and don't intend on trying to push them further, outside of personal experiments and projects.

Managing a living language is challenging and difficult work, and I am grateful for all the hard work that the Rust community and contributors put in given the difficult constraints they work within. Many of the things I listed below are not new, and there's been plenty of difficult discussions about many of them over the years, and some are being worked on or postponed, or rejected for various good reasons. For more thoughts, please see my comment below.

My personal list of Rust gr

ZSH CheatSheet

This is a cheat sheet for how to perform various actions to ZSH, which can be tricky to find on the web as the syntax is not intuitive and it is generally not very well-documented.

Strings

Description	Syntax
Get the length of a string	`${#VARNAME}`
Get a single character	`${VARNAME[index]}`

Off the beaten path

What is `&path` used for?

Vim uses :help 'path' to define the root directories from where to search non-recursively for files.

It is used for:

gf, gF, <C-w>f, <C-w>F, <C-w>gf, <C-w>gF,
:find, :sfind, :tabfind,

	borger.dk
	patienterstatningen.dk
	mitid.dk
	sundhed.dk
	laegevejen.dk
	stpk.dk
	sundhedsdatastyrelsen.dk
	digst.dk
	netseidbroker.dk
	mit.dk

	# Norlys Digital A/S
	# AS39642
	2a00:1b70::/29
	2a00:1f98::/29
	2a02:25c8::/29
	2a02:2b98::/32
	2a02:6940::/32
	2a03:7400::/29
	2a0c:63c0::/48
	# AS213320

	---
	name: dezza's uBlacklist subscription
	description: Personal opinionated blocklist
	homepage: https://gist.github.com/dezza/2ede13cc2df2db618e85bceb55228635
	---
	# Shitty linkedin articles
	://.linkedin.com/pulse/*

	# Stackxchange proxy websites
	://.socketloop.com/*

	#!/bin/bash -e
	# checkv6cfd.sh
	# Copyright (c) 2021, Francis Turner
	# All rights reserved.
	#
	# Script that automates checking and if required downloading and replacing of the
	# latest armv6 cloudflared as built by Darren Hobin (https://github.com/hobindar)
	# for use on pi zeros and other armv6 devices


	" debugging vim plugins unsilent avoids plugins silencing echom
	:unsilent echomsg "debug msg in plugin"

	" Commands that take filename modifiers
	:vsplit %:h
	:edit %:h

	" open vim with search term
	vim +/foo file.vim