Compiling the Birthday Problem into Rust
The Birthday Problem demonstrates that, in a group of 23 people, the odds of two people sharing a birthday exceed 50%. You can read the linked article for an explanation, but the probability is...
Category: Rust
Flipping a Rusty Coin
Recently, my boss asked me for a server capacity planning model. This was a new ask for me. I can launch Excel with the best of ‘em: fire up Alfred and type “ex<enter>”. I...
Autostart Zellij in Nushell
Cool kids multiplex with Zellij. Data engineers shred data with Nushell. Let’s make them work better together. Let’s autostart Zellij when our terminal and shell start. The Zellij documentation provides instructions for making Zellij...
Nushell + fzf — functions for git switch and git branch -d
I’ve recently re-discovered nushell and I’ve fallen hard. I’m committed. I’m stumbling my way through things, of course, but I’ve set my course and am not turning back. Perhaps one day I’ll blog my...
Fridge Door Part 3: Building a React Application
This article is part 3 in a multipart series that makes a message board using a Raspberry Pi and a Tidbyt. Here are the parts in the series: Prerequisites Nodejs Create the Application In...
Fridge Door Part 2: Building a Service in Rocket and Rust
This article is part 2 in a multipart series that makes a message board using a Raspberry Pi and a Tidbyt. Here are the parts in the series: Prerequisites Create the Service Rocket has...
Fridge Door: a Message Board with a Raspberry Pi and Tidbyt
This article launches a multipart series that makes a message board using a Raspberry Pi and a Tidbyt. Note that you can skip the Tidbyt and use a monitor to display messages. Here are...