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Pascal's Scribbles
Personal blog · deterministic.spaceprogrammingsystems
Pascal's Scribbles is a personal blog at deterministic.space about programming and systems. Since 2017, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Rust: The Secret Life of Cows”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Pascal's Scribbles is a blog with Rust-related posts. The only comment linked here is a Rust borrowing and iterator tip in the thread "Rust is for Professionals", and it does not discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Pascal’s scribbles A bunch of notes on various topics and projects I’m working on (probably mostly programming-related). You can also follow me on Mastodon or on Bluesky. Want me to work with you? I’m …
Most-linked posts?
- Rust: The Secret Life of Cows3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-17
- Long-Form Texts on Interesting Details of Computers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-01
- Cheap tricks for high-performance Rust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-04
What Hacker News says?
If you don't mind sharing snippets for the diagnostics you couldn't figure out, I would love to see them in case we can mechanically suggest the appropriate code, but in general a well placed .clone(), .cloned() or .collect() will be what you want. Likely what's happening is you're iterating over a sequence (you can think of options as a sequence of only one iteration as well), but that iterator is over borrows of t…
Comment linking /secret-life-of-cows.html
on “Rust is for Professionals”Submitted Cheap tricks for high-performance Rust as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust: The Secret Life of Cows as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust: Ownership and Borrowing in 150 words as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Secret Life of Cows as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cheap tricks for high-performance Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 tips for writing small CLI tools in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bevy uses Rust traits for labeling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Long-Form Texts on Interesting Details of Computers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Long-Form Texts on Interesting Details of Computers as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
