Felix' Blog

This article was first release in the german IT-magazine Golem.

I've been writing C and some C++ in terminal-based editors for the past five years.

On Error Handling in Rust The current standard for error handling, when writing a crate, is to define one error enum per module, or one for the whole crate that covers all error cases that the module or crate can possibly produce, and each public function…

A Review of Helix after 1.5 Years I've been using Helix for roughly 1.5 years now, and for the latest release (25.01) I decided to summarized the thoughts I've been collecting until now.

For the last seven years, I've been reaching for nginx when I wanted to host something that was facing the public internet.

The Problem You push (or better, merge) to master, and the deployment happens automagically.

Introduction The first time, I've heard of Raku was maybe a year ago.

I've been paid for writing Rust for 1.5 years now, but I still have eye-opening experiences now and then.

Basics When you want to cross compile Rust programs, you have two options: You either use cross, or you do it manually.

Most of the code software engineers write is pretty mundane, which is good.

My first programming language was C++ and for a long time, I was using Visual Studio Express in Windows.

That title is obviously click bait.

Jupyter Notebooks are hugely popular.

Recenty I've been asked whether I could teach Python to a fellow PhD student and said yes.

I love playing Pathfinder.

Intro Currently, I am learning Clojure reading the great (and free) book Clojure for the brave and true.

A few days ago, I read an article: How to code basic psychological experiments with Python by Mathias Gatti.

What I do at my job is called "Multi Voxel Pattern Analysis" (MVPA).

Recently I was writing the following code: processing_frame = \ sl_results[sl_results.c == coi][["subscript", "kappa"]].rename( columns={"kappa": "value"}) Another piece of code that might look familiar to the habituated pandas user is: my_f…

There already is a myriad of blog posts on functional programming, with this post, I don't try to give an introduction to it, but I want to highlight, how we can get inspirations from it, to improve our code.