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SQL Tricks

Listicles like these do work – not only do they attract attention, if the content is also valuable (and in this case it is, trust me), the article format can be extremely entertaining. This a…

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Programming blogs

This is one of those “N technical things every programmer must read” lists, except that “programmer” is way too broad a term and the styles of writing people find helpful for them are too different for any such list to contain a non-zero number of items (if you want the entire list to be helpful to everyone). So…

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Something Secret This Way Comes

On the Rust Lint Workshop, I started coding on a “secret” project (Actually I hinted at the possibility during our 100 clippy lints celebration). Now that I’ve built a prototype, it’s time to spill the beans: I wrote a new lint. One might even say a new type of lint. One of the interesting things about this lint is…