Adam Chalmers

Last year I read a lot of Chinese history.

It's been a good year.

This weekend I turned 34.

Better late than never!

Recently I gave my first-ever in-person conference presentation!

A few months ago I was invited to EuroRust to talk about API servers and clients.

Kris Jenkins of Developer Voices spoke to me on his podcast!

I'll be at RustConf 2024, speaking about KCL, the 3D manufacturing language we're building at Zoo.dev!

I've been using Kitty terminal for five years now, and I'm really happy with it.

My work at Zoo has recently focused on KCL, our CAD programming language.

Cloudflare has a really generous free tier, and it gets a lot of free users.

Thinking about the things I liked and some really fun career changes from the last 12 months.

The fourth Rust Club video is up!

KittyCAD's third Rust Club video is up!

I hate long compiles.

KittyCAD's second Rust Club video is up!

I had a great time talking to Drew of filtra.io!

I work at KittyCAD, and every Monday I teach Rust to my coworkers for an hour.

I had a great time presenting at P99Conf!

I got back from Rustconf 2023 last week, and I had a great time!

I don't pair program very often, but sometimes when you're stuck on a really annoying problem, it can be helpful to have a coworker looking over your shoulder.

Multipart, or "form-encoded data", is something I see everywhere but never had to actually understand or use myself, because HTTP libraries handled it for me.

I read and liked Andrew Israel's I love building a startup in Rust.

Hi all!

Say you're running a long-lived program, like a server.

Reflecting on the things I liked in 2022.

In case you didn't hear, comedy is now legal on Twitter but accounts engaged in parody must include “parody” in their name, not just in bio.

I first learned Kubernetes ("k8s" for short) in 2018, when my manager sat me down and said "Cloudflare is migrating to Kubernetes, and you're handling our team's migration."

Last week in Tokio's Discord chat server someone asked a really interesting question: how can you stream a multipart body from an incoming request into an outgoing request?

I learned about extensions when reading the hyper docs.

Over the last few weeks I built my own DNS client.

In the last blog post, we learned how to parse binary, bit-by-bit with Nom.

Programming languages generally only manipulate bytes (groups of 8 bits).

"Parsing" is turning a stream of raw text or binary into some structured data types, i.e. a Rust type that your code can understand and use.

Using async Rust libraries is usually easy.

In part one, we defined a Grid trait and implemented it using 1D and 2D vectors.

While making a raytracer in Rust, I needed an efficient way to store the pixels of a 2D image.