Rodney Lab Newsletter — September 2023Rodney Lab Newsletter — September 2023
🦀 Evcxr: Rust Evaluation Context #
Evcxr is a code evaluation context for Rust, similar to iex (for Elixir) or
the Python Terminal interpreter. It is a fantastic tool for anyone learning
Rust, letting you quickly and conveniently evaluate Rust expressions. For
example, as you read through The Rust Book, you can use it to check you
understood a concept, without having to spin up a new project. Evcxr also
integrates with Jupyter notebooks (often used with Python for education, and
also in Machine Learning contexts).
You can get going by setting up Evcxr locally with cargo and rustup.
🧑🏽💻 Follower Feedback — Astro 3 #
Astro 3 dropped at the start of the month, with integrated support for the new CSS View Transitions API. The new features generated a lot of buzz at the time; if you are still catching up, here is some content to get you up to speed:
- The Chrome and Astro teams put together an introduction with View Transitions API Demos.
- Also, watch back this livestream by Maxi Ferreira (link opens in YouTube), where he builds a photo gallery using the View Transitions API with Astro 3.
📢 Fun Finds #
- Productivity — Neovim Starter: I previously featured Jake Wiesler’s getting started with Neovim guide. Here is another resource — quite handy if you are just getting going with Neovim. The repo includes .config files, and the setup doesn’t use any third party plugins.
- Free Stuff A huge list of free services useful for developers. With categories ranging from APIs, Data and ML to CMS and Web Hosting, it is definitely worth a look as you create the stack for your next side-project.
- Security — 10 React Best Practices: This list, from Snyk, is a good starting point for keeping your web services secure. Although the checklist was created with React in mind, some principles are transferable to Svelte and other frameworks.
👋🏽 Until next time! #
Hope there was something valuable in here for you. As always, reach out with feedback. Here are some links to recent content, which I hope you will find useful: