Ben Lovy

Just this guy, you know?

Boston, MA, USA Joined on Mar 19, 2018 ben@deciduously.com https://deciduously.com

Education

Currently enrolled @ Champlain College Online

Work

Rust Developer @ Tangram.dev

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Ben Lovy

Nov 3 '19

Validate a Credit Card Number with Functional JavaScript

#beginners #functional #javascript #tutorial

277

7 min read

Ben Lovy

Jul 28 '19

Getting Cozy With C++

#beginners #cpp #devjournal

207

10 min read

Ben Lovy

Jul 24 '19

How To Make A Makefile

#beginners #gnu #tools #cpp

328

10 min read

Ben Lovy

Jun 14 '19

Reactive Canvas with Rust/WebAssembly and web-sys

#rust #webassembly #beginners #tutorial

136

11 min read

Ben Lovy

May 28 '19

Skip the Framework: Build A Simple Rust API with Hyper

#rust #beginners #tutorial #webdev

192

9 min read

Ben Lovy

Nov 21 '21

Oops, I Did It Again...I Made A Rust Web API And It Was Not That Difficult

#rust #beginners #tutorial #webdev

106

22 min read

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Ben Lovy

Nov 9 '21

Prepare your Rust API docs for Github Pages

#beginners #tutorial #rust #github

2 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 31 '21

Workstation Management With Nix Flakes: Build a Cmake C++ Package

#tutorial #cpp #beginners #nix

8 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 30 '21

Workstation Management With Nix Flakes: Jupyter Notebook Example

#tutorial #jupyter #beginners #nix

8 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 25 '21

Pretend You're Using A Different Linux Distribution With One Docker Command

#beginners #linux #productivity #docker

4 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 22 '21

Quickly Grab Stuff From Your Git History

#beginners #tutorial #git #productivity

3 min read

Ben Lovy

Sep 10 '21

Rust Function Pointers Across FFI Boundary

#help #rust #c #ffi

3 min read

Ben Lovy

Aug 9 '20

Using Bitwise Operators: Why Waste Space Use Many Bits When Few Bits Do Trick?

#beginners #tutorial #devjournal #chip8

14 min read

Ben Lovy

Aug 6 '20

Prime Sieve in (Hopefully) Idiomatic Ruby (And Some Books You Should Read)

#ruby #beginners #devjournal #books

8 min read

Ben Lovy

Apr 12 '20

Share Your Conway's Game Of Life

#watercooler #showdev

2 min read

Ben Lovy

Apr 8 '20

Quick And Dirty Java Makefile

#java #makefile #beginners #devjournal

2 min read

Ben Lovy

Mar 19 '20

Setting Up A Fresh Ruby Project

#ruby #beginners #devops #tutorial

105

6 min read

Ben Lovy

Mar 17 '20

Old post surging?

#meta

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Mar 11 '20

Learning German

#watercooler #language

6 min read

Ben Lovy

Mar 7 '20

Getting Cozy with Ruby

#beginners #ruby #devjournal #tutorial

107

5 min read

Ben Lovy

Mar 5 '20

Ben++

#career

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Mar 4 '20

How did YOU learn Ruby?

#watercooler #beginners #ruby #help

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 24 '20

Google released a Lighthouse extension for Firefox!

#news #webdev #firefox #google

143

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 21 '20

What were some quirks and gotchas about working with Python 1?

#watercooler #python

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 20 '20

Hyper Webapp Template

#showdev #beginners #rust #webdev

103

5 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 13 '20

How many of y'all are using DEV Connect?

#watercooler #meta

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 11 '20

Get Started Writing Scheme

#beginners #scheme #functional #tutorial

106

5 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 8 '20

Steam Proton Is Great

#watercooler #games #linux

2 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 7 '20

Automatically Generate Rust Modules With Cargo Build Scripts

#todayilearned #beginners #rust #devjournal

10 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 6 '20

Do you merge branches locally or create pull requests for personal projects?

#discuss #beginners #help #git

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Feb 5 '20

Thirty Green Squares

#beginners #mentalhealth

2 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 29 '20

Use Multi-Stage Docker Builds For Statically-Linked Rust Binaries

#todayilearned #beginners #rust #docker

4 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 24 '20

C++ Template Specialization - Syntax Note

#todayilearned #beginners #cpp #devjournal

3 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 23 '20

How dependent are you on your development environment configuration?

#watercooler #productivity

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 21 '20

Phabricator is Phabulous

#beginners #opensource #productivity #devops

5 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 17 '20

That About Wraps It Up For Actix-Web

#discuss #rust #actix #opensource

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 14 '20

Big-O Cheat Sheet

#beginners #computerscience #algorithms #cheatsheet

470

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 12 '20

deciduously

#watercooler #mentalhealth

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 12 '20

Who uses IRC?

#watercooler #irc

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 8 '20

Stencil: I Think I Found My Frontend Home

#webdev #typescript #beginners #devjournal

177

6 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 4 '20

Correct a Beginner About Buzzword Technologies

#help #beginners #distributedsystems

109

5 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 1 '20

Getting Cozy With Debian Buster

#linux #debian #devjournal #beginners

11 min read

Ben Lovy

Dec 30 '19

Au Revoir, Gentoo - Sell Me A New Linux Distro

#help #linux #bsd #discuss

189

3 min read

Ben Lovy

Dec 21 '19

What Does C++ Do That Rust Doesn't?

#healthydebate #rust #cpp

122

2 min read

Ben Lovy

Dec 19 '19

No More Tears, No More Knots: Arena-Allocated Trees in Rust

#rust #beginners #tutorial #devjournal

6 min read

Ben Lovy

Dec 16 '19

Pressure-Free AoC

#watercooler #adventofcode #devjournal #beginners

5 min read

Ben Lovy

Dec 11 '19

Qt for WebAssembly

#discuss #webdev #webassembly #qt

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Dec 2 '19

Procedural Melody Generation in Rust

#beginners #rust #tutorial #music

63 min read

Ben Lovy

Nov 16 '19

Creative Coding in Rust with Nannou

#rust #beginners #tutorial #creative

19 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 23 '19

Is DRM malicious code?

#discuss #healthydebate #watercooler #opensource

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 9 '19

Interesting Video Game Mechanics

#watercooler #games

15 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 3 '19

Overly Functional C++: The BenFolds Five

#beginners #cpp #functional #devjournal

4 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 2 '19

Overly Functional C++: The Fold

#help #cpp #beginners #devjournal

4 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 2 '19

Overly Functional C++

#beginners #cpp #functional #devjournal

15 min read

Ben Lovy

Sep 25 '19

Shareable CLI demo?

#help #beginners #rust

2 min read

Ben Lovy

Sep 17 '19

Pass-By-Value in C++ and Rust

#beginners #cpp #rust

5 min read

Ben Lovy

Sep 12 '19

Observation: Green Tea Tastes Better From A DEV Mug

#watercooler #fluff

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Sep 6 '19

The Builder Pattern

#rust #beginners #tutorial #patterns

101

4 min read

Ben Lovy

Sep 3 '19

Callbacks, Trait Objects & Associated Types, Oh My!

#devjournal #rust

7 min read

Ben Lovy

Aug 29 '19

Ads In Your Linters

#discuss #javascript #opensource #healthydebate

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Aug 27 '19

In And Out Of Rabbit Holes

#devjournal #rust #webassembly

6 min read

Ben Lovy

Aug 19 '19

Oops, I'm Making A Framework

#help #beginners #discuss

2 min read

Ben Lovy

Aug 13 '19

Interesting Board Game Mechanics

#watercooler #games

10 min read

Ben Lovy

Aug 6 '19

Towards Complexity

#beginners #devjournal #project #career

3 min read

Ben Lovy

Jul 31 '19

You Either Have It Or You Don't

#discuss #beginners #types #help

3 min read