Coding

Pragmatic notes on developer tools, languages, and workflows. Shortcuts, tricks, and lessons from actually shipping code.

Clockwork raven on a control console sending glowing cables to a robot crab, a snake and a gopher assembling floating app windows

Raven is a C GUI library that Rust and Python can drive

Raven is a C GUI library for editors and tools. One XML file drives the window from Rust, Python, Go or C#, with docking, live reload and a designer.

Mail carrier in an orange uniform sneaks an orange cable into a laptop on an empty desk

Bruno or Hoppscotch? Postman alternatives you can trust

Postman alternatives compared after Postman wrote plugins into Claude Code and Codex: Bruno keeps requests as Git files, Hoppscotch syncs to a server.

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Big Rust rewrites of 2026

Rust rewrites reached Ubuntu, Bun and GitHub in 2026, and Linux, Windows, Android and Git are adding Rust too. A scoreboard of who finished and who began.

Robotic arms on a conveyor turn a copper disc into a toothed gear that a 3D printer then prints

Meet mucad, the OpenSCAD alternative with Rust-like syntax

mucad is an OpenSCAD alternative written in Rust that swaps nested transforms and for loops for operators you read left to right. Try it in a browser.

$Sealed black monolith of machine code above a workbench, a brass prism lens refracting it into readable blueprint code blocks$

Ghidra is the NSA tool that reads compiled software

Ghidra reverse engineering tools came out of the NSA and are free. The decompiler that turns machine code back into readable C is why people use it.

Cutaway of a terminal engine built from stacked glass screens, lifted out of an app shell and wired to four smaller devices

Ghostty ships its whole terminal engine as a library

Ghostty terminal emulator ships libghostty, a zero-dependency C and Zig library, and over 120 projects already embed that engine in their own apps.