Ben Lovy

Just this guy, you know?

Boston, MA, USA Joined on Mar 19, 2018 ben@deciduously.com https://deciduously.com

Education

Currently enrolled @ Champlain College Online

Work

Rust Developer @ Tangram.dev

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Ben Lovy

Nov 3 '19

Validate a Credit Card Number with Functional JavaScript

#beginners #functional #javascript #tutorial

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Ben Lovy

Jul 28 '19

Getting Cozy With C++

#beginners #cpp #devjournal

208 28

10 min read

Ben Lovy

Jul 24 '19

How To Make A Makefile

#beginners #gnu #tools #cpp

316 28

10 min read

Ben Lovy

Jun 14 '19

Reactive Canvas with Rust/WebAssembly and web-sys

#rust #webassembly #beginners #tutorial

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11 min read

Ben Lovy

May 28 '19

Skip the Framework: Build A Simple Rust API with Hyper

#rust #beginners #tutorial #webdev

191 4

9 min read

Ben Lovy

Nov 21 '21

Oops, I Did It Again...I Made A Rust Web API And It Was Not That Difficult

#rust #beginners #tutorial #webdev

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22 min read

I want to start contributing to OSS, what are your favorite projects YOU contribute to?

Have you tried looking into Flutter itself? That ecosystem i...

May 25

I want to start contributing to OSS, what are your favorite projects YOU contribute to?

Personally, I started out with contributing to projects I cur...

May 25

What was your win this week?

I finally didn't feel useless in pair programming sessions wi...

May 13

What's the simplest way to compile ClojureScript to JS? Like 1 file, no overhead.

I think the best overall solution is shadow-cljs, but this re...

May 12

What do you spend the most time on as a developer? ⏳

Wrangling data. Serializing, deserializing, thinking about d...

May 10

No More Tears, No More Knots: Arena-Allocated Trees in Rust

The caveat would be simultaneous access - you would need to e...

May 9

No More Tears, No More Knots: Arena-Allocated Trees in Rust

Hi - because all nodes only refer to each other via a Copy in...

May 9

Remove all your local git branches but keep main

Every time I successfully use xargs I spend the next several ...

Apr 20

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Ben Lovy

Nov 9 '21

Prepare your Rust API docs for Github Pages

#beginners #tutorial #rust #github

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2 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 31 '21

Workstation Management With Nix Flakes: Build a Cmake C++ Package

#tutorial #cpp #beginners #nix

8 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 30 '21

Workstation Management With Nix Flakes: Jupyter Notebook Example

#tutorial #jupyter #beginners #nix

11 1

8 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 25 '21

Pretend You're Using A Different Linux Distribution With One Docker Command

#beginners #linux #productivity #docker

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4 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 22 '21

Quickly Grab Stuff From Your Git History

#beginners #tutorial #git #productivity

3 min read

Ben Lovy

Sep 10 '21

Rust Function Pointers Across FFI Boundary

#help #rust #c #ffi

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3 min read

Ben Lovy

Aug 9 '20

Using Bitwise Operators: Why Waste Space Use Many Bits When Few Bits Do Trick?

#beginners #tutorial #devjournal #chip8

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14 min read

Ben Lovy

Aug 6 '20

Prime Sieve in (Hopefully) Idiomatic Ruby (And Some Books You Should Read)

#ruby #beginners #devjournal #books

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8 min read

Ben Lovy

Apr 12 '20

Share Your Conway's Game Of Life

#watercooler #showdev

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2 min read

Ben Lovy

Apr 8 '20

Quick And Dirty Java Makefile

#java #makefile #beginners #devjournal

19 10

2 min read

Ben Lovy

Mar 19 '20

Setting Up A Fresh Ruby Project

#ruby #beginners #devops #tutorial

88 7

6 min read

Ben Lovy

Mar 17 '20

Old post surging?

#meta

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1 min read

Ben Lovy

Mar 11 '20

Learning German

#watercooler #language

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6 min read

Ben Lovy

Mar 7 '20

Getting Cozy with Ruby

#beginners #ruby #devjournal #tutorial

107 11

5 min read

Ben Lovy

Mar 5 '20

Ben++

#career

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Ben Lovy

Mar 4 '20

How did YOU learn Ruby?

#watercooler #beginners #ruby #help

45 26

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 24 '20

Google released a Lighthouse extension for Firefox!

#news #webdev #firefox #google

143 5

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 21 '20

What were some quirks and gotchas about working with Python 1?

#watercooler #python

16 8

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 20 '20

Hyper Webapp Template

#showdev #beginners #rust #webdev

104 10

5 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 13 '20

How many of y'all are using DEV Connect?

#watercooler #meta

51 41

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 11 '20

Get Started Writing Scheme

#beginners #scheme #functional #tutorial

102 26

5 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 8 '20

Steam Proton Is Great

#watercooler #games #linux

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2 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 7 '20

Automatically Generate Rust Modules With Cargo Build Scripts

#todayilearned #beginners #rust #devjournal

58 1

10 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 6 '20

Do you merge branches locally or create pull requests for personal projects?

#discuss #beginners #help #git

81 48

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 5 '20

Thirty Green Squares

#beginners #mentalhealth

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2 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 29 '20

Use Multi-Stage Docker Builds For Statically-Linked Rust Binaries

#todayilearned #beginners #rust #docker

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4 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 24 '20

C++ Template Specialization - Syntax Note

#todayilearned #beginners #cpp #devjournal

22 5

3 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 23 '20

How dependent are you on your development environment configuration?

#watercooler #productivity

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1 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 21 '20

Phabricator is Phabulous

#beginners #opensource #productivity #devops

52 13

5 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 17 '20

That About Wraps It Up For Actix-Web

#discuss #rust #actix #opensource

48 49

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 14 '20

Big-O Cheat Sheet

#beginners #computerscience #algorithms #cheatsheet

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1 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 12 '20

deciduously

#watercooler #mentalhealth

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 12 '20

Who uses IRC?

#watercooler #irc

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Ben Lovy

Jan 8 '20

Stencil: I Think I Found My Frontend Home

#webdev #typescript #beginners #devjournal

176 31

6 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 4 '20

Correct a Beginner About Buzzword Technologies

#help #beginners #distributedsystems

109 11

5 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 1 '20

Getting Cozy With Debian Buster

#linux #debian #devjournal #beginners

42 11

11 min read

Ben Lovy

Dec 30 '19

Au Revoir, Gentoo - Sell Me A New Linux Distro

#help #linux #bsd #discuss

52 189

3 min read

Ben Lovy

Dec 21 '19

What Does C++ Do That Rust Doesn't?

#healthydebate #rust #cpp

121 88

2 min read

Ben Lovy

Dec 19 '19

No More Tears, No More Knots: Arena-Allocated Trees in Rust

#rust #beginners #tutorial #devjournal

80 28

6 min read

Ben Lovy

Dec 16 '19

Pressure-Free AoC

#watercooler #adventofcode #devjournal #beginners

40 4

5 min read

Ben Lovy

Dec 11 '19

Qt for WebAssembly

#discuss #webdev #webassembly #qt

62 11

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Dec 2 '19

Procedural Melody Generation in Rust

#beginners #rust #tutorial #music

63 min read

Ben Lovy

Nov 16 '19

Creative Coding in Rust with Nannou

#rust #beginners #tutorial #creative

136 8

19 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 23 '19

Is DRM malicious code?

#discuss #healthydebate #watercooler #opensource

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1 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 9 '19

Interesting Video Game Mechanics

#watercooler #games

66 11

15 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 3 '19

Overly Functional C++: The BenFolds Five

#beginners #cpp #functional #devjournal

18 3

4 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 2 '19

Overly Functional C++: The Fold

#help #cpp #beginners #devjournal

37 8

4 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 2 '19

Overly Functional C++

#beginners #cpp #functional #devjournal

15 min read

Ben Lovy

Sep 25 '19

Shareable CLI demo?

#help #beginners #rust

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2 min read

Ben Lovy

Sep 17 '19

Pass-By-Value in C++ and Rust

#beginners #cpp #rust

85 9

5 min read

Ben Lovy

Sep 12 '19

Observation: Green Tea Tastes Better From A DEV Mug

#watercooler #fluff

45 15

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Sep 6 '19

The Builder Pattern

#rust #beginners #tutorial #patterns

101 5

4 min read

Ben Lovy

Sep 3 '19

Callbacks, Trait Objects & Associated Types, Oh My!

#devjournal #rust

37 6

7 min read

Ben Lovy

Aug 29 '19

Ads In Your Linters

#discuss #javascript #opensource #healthydebate

47 48

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Aug 27 '19

In And Out Of Rabbit Holes

#devjournal #rust #webassembly

43 2

6 min read

Ben Lovy

Aug 19 '19

Oops, I'm Making A Framework

#help #beginners #discuss

63 25

2 min read

Ben Lovy

Aug 13 '19

Interesting Board Game Mechanics

#watercooler #games

88 20

10 min read

Ben Lovy

Aug 6 '19

Towards Complexity

#beginners #devjournal #project #career

44 14

3 min read

Ben Lovy

Jul 31 '19

You Either Have It Or You Don't

#discuss #beginners #types #help

45 29

3 min read

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I want to start contributing to OSS, what are your favorite projects YOU contribute to?

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What's the simplest way to compile ClojureScript to JS? Like 1 file, no overhead.

What do you spend the most time on as a developer? ⏳

No More Tears, No More Knots: Arena-Allocated Trees in Rust

No More Tears, No More Knots: Arena-Allocated Trees in Rust

Remove all your local git branches but keep main