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Saint Pierre and Miquelon

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Just off the southern coast of Labrador, there’s a cluster of small islands named Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

There is no ‘we’ in design docs

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Once your software project reaches a certain size, you probably want to have a design document that describes how the system you’re building should behave. P...

dui: like du, but interactive

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Sometimes I just want to know why my computer’s disk is full. du will give me a firehose of information, but it’s slow and the results are hard to parse. I d...

Understanding #[derive(Clone)] in Rust

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This post assumes that you have an entry-level familiarity with Rust: you’ve fought with the borrow checker enough to start to internalize some of its model;...