/ Recent content on Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/blog-intro/ Sat, 06 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/blog-intro/ Why Does This Blog Exist? As a software engineer, I have read posts from a plethora of technical blogs written by other developers. I’ve learned a lot from the community over the years through such freely available content, whether that be tutorials on programming languages and tools, or opinion pieces on different architectures and programming styles. I want to use this blog as a small opportunity to give back to the community in that same way. /posts/some-git-guis/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/some-git-guis/ Git is an incredibly ubiquitous and important developer tool these days; I’m sure pretty much anyone reading this post uses it on a daily basis. There are two main ways to do that: the command line interface, or CLI, and 3rd party graphical user interfaces, or GUIs. In this blog post I will discuss a couple of the GUI tools that I’ve been using lately, and why I switched from the CLI for the bulk of my workflow. /posts/rust-question-mark/ Sat, 06 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/rust-question-mark/ This blog post is meant for beginners to the Rust programming language, but not necessarily beginners to programming - it assumes at least a basic familiarity with some other popular languages. It will introduce the basics of error handling in Rust with relation to the ? operator. When I encountered Rust code for the first time, I noticed that it was littered with ?s all over the place. Because I was working with a lot of JavaScript at the time, my mind first jumped to “it must be something like JS’s optional chaining feature, right?