My first typewriter

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The first typewriter I've ever used (and built)!

Generational differences

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Generational differences:
My mom gets PG&E notifications via a phone call and I get them via text message.

From<T> and Into<T>

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From<T> and Into<T> are my new best friends: https://gitlab.com/mwbot-rs/mwbot/-/merge_requests/10/

Why require users to specify their request parameters in one specific format when you could just accept every format? \o/

Fearless concurrency in Wikipedia bots

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I'm about 70% done rewriting one of my Wikipedia bots into Rust from Python. Reduced the runtime from 12+ hours to under 10 minutes.

I suspect the final runtime will end up being no more than 15-20 minutes.

Yay for fearless concurrency ^.^

Taylor Swift and copyright

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Taylor Swift once again reminding us how important it is to own our own copyrights.

Toolforge Rust tutorial

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I wrote a tutorial on how to deploy a #Rust web application on Wikimedia's #Toolforge platform: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/My_first_Rust_tool

It uses #Rocket and demonstrates how to make queries against #Wikipedia's MariaDB replicas.