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Personal blog · sasheldon.com/blogprogrammingsystems
sasheldon.com is a personal blog at sasheldon.com about programming and systems. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “I Broke Rust's Package Manager for Windows Users”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's 2017 post on how the author broke Cargo for Windows, citing it as an example of Windows filename problems causing Cargo bugs. One comment also cites the site's rust-objc docs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
You can find me: on email as steven at this domain on GitHub as SSheldon on BlueSky as @sasheldon.com
Most-linked posts?
- I Broke Rust's Package Manager for Windows Users5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-05-07
What Hacker News says?
Case in point: http://sasheldon.com/blog/2017/05/07/how-i-broke-cargo-for-w...
Comment linking /blog/2017/05/07/how-i-broke-cargo-for-windows/
on “Null”Submitted I Broke Rust's Package Manager for Windows Users as a story · 351 points
HN discussionLet's not forget this one: http://sasheldon.com/blog/2017/05/07/how-i-broke-cargo-for-w...
Comment linking /blog/2017/05/07/how-i-broke-cargo-for-windows/
on “Windows NTFS Tricks Collection”Submitted Interoperating Between Objective-C and Rust as a story · 93 points
HN discussion> How do you subclass an ObjC class from Rust — say, to create a delegate for a UI element? The objc::declare module includes ClassDecl, which enables registering a new Objective-C class. objc::declare documentation: http://sasheldon.com/rust-objc/objc/declare/index.html Example usage: https://github.com/kattrali/rust-mac-app-examples/blob/maste... > How is type safety handled? It looks like msg_send itself isn't ty…
Comment linking /rust-objc/objc/declare/index.html
on “Building native macOS applications with Rust”Same thing in Cargo: http://sasheldon.com/blog/2017/05/07/how-i-broke-cargo-for-w... https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/3982
Comment linking /blog/2017/05/07/how-i-broke-cargo-for-windows/
on “The tale of aux.c”Hello from 2017. http://sasheldon.com/blog/2017/05/07/how-i-broke-cargo-for-w...
Comment linking /blog/2017/05/07/how-i-broke-cargo-for-windows/
on “How to pass “Null” (a real surname) to a SOAP web service?”