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by Mike Kalvas

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I use prism.min.js to do syntax highlighting. It clocks in at 23kb total in size. Since the majority of the writing I do involves coding, I personally find this to be a worthwhile trade off. If you choose to keep this disabled, rest assured, the code examples are still there, they just may have some extra whitespace and obviously no syntax highlighting.

I do no tracking at all and am a zealot about keeping my pages as small as possible. If you're reading a page of mine that transfers more than about 250kb over the wire (including my most gratuitous indulgence — fonts) I've messed up.

So, if you'd like to have a slightly richer experience, consider enabling javascript for my site and I promise your trust won't be misplaced.

202409141244 A Cool Use of Rust Iterators

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I was recently going through the book Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists (which is awesome and you should definitely read), and came across the sections about implementing iterators for the linked lists which gave me an idea.

What if we used iterators to build struct-of-array optimized data processing with the ergonomics of array-of-structs? Could we have our cake and eat it too?

So I geared up to do some experimenting and maybe write up a blog post about it only to find that, yes of course this is a thing and already well-trodden ground.

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