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In the previous article I built a wireless car, with Lego servo and Lego motor, powered by a Lego power pack.

If you already have the parts of a common Lego car, it's very cheap and easy enough to make it remotely controlled from your computer with a Rust program running on a Raspberry Pico.

Being able to think in stacks and queues is a neglected super-power.

I saved 475 MB out of the 895 MB used by a real-world Rust program by changing the layout of some structs and the way I was deserializing JSON files.

I moved the documentation of my free programs from MkDocs to ddoc.

This article is both for people who don't know broot yet, and for those who do but are probably less efficient at searching than they could be.

What if you could actually use all those pedantic lint warnings without drowning ?

You certainly know the old tree command.

I present here a macro supported approach for tests in Rust.

When a task isn't instant, you usually don't want to run it on the UI thread.

Biome is a fast linter.

You want to use bacon on non rust projects?

Serde's derive is fantastic but if you want humans to read and write files, you can't just depend on the standard derive for everything.

Broot lets you navigate your filesystem and gives you an overview of any directory.

Your code is full of lists.

This post doesn't compare Terminator and Wezterm.

How to leverage the Rust compiler to prevent identifier misuse ?

I see my code projects in trees and lines, and it affects how I want it to be formatted.

My requirements and solution for a safe storage of personal secrets.

As I maintain several FOSS projects, I figured it would be convenient to have in a central place some concise guidance on contributing.

To deal with key events in your cross-platform TUI, you'll probably need to determine what keybindings you can really use, use convenient hardcoded keybindings, and read keybindings from a configuration file

So you want your unix application to select different sets of colors depending on whether the terminal is set to a light or dark theme ?

I've seen too many good programmers struggle learning Rust, or even give up.

As my disks tend to be quite messy with time, I had to devise ways to reclaim space, which means both spotting big directories and files, and to deal with the thousands of duplicates you can't delete one per one.

Generating or modifying Excel files in Java is easy with Apache POI.

Glassbench is a Rust micro-benchmark harness.

TOML was originally the only format for configuring broot.

Twenty years ago, most of us thought TUI applications were going to disappear.

8 months ago, but it feels like years ago, somebody shared a link to broot on Hacker News.

Prompts I see everywhere are very bad in my opinion.

An example of an efficient search workflow based on broot, a general purpose file manager.

Before every commit, I do a short review of what I wrote.

Here's a short map of my main identities (the ones which are related to software making, at least): dystroy is the umbrella covering all the me, and the brand of my freelance activity Canop is an open-source software writer Denys Séguret writes Rust for f…