Issue 2020-W31
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This week has been about JQ, alacritty, interactive system diagrams and query systems in Rust.
Conventions for Command Line Options
An article describing the classic conventions in Unix command line interfaces and some of the problems derived from deviating from them.
Alacritty
A terminal emulator, cross-platform and GPU accelerated. I've been following this project for quite some time but now, with the new release, v0.5, I'm adopting it as my main terminal.
Writing a simple query system in Rust
An article explaining the rudiments of a query system pattern in Rust. A nice opportunity to see a basic application of Rust reflection capabilities.
Hexyl
A tool to view the hexadecimal representation of a file. Similar to hexdump
but with bytes coloured by category.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.