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Part 6 of building a full-stack URL shortener in Rust. We serve the Yew frontend from Axum, Dockerize the whole thing, and deploy to Shuttle.

Part 5 of building a full-stack URL shortener in Rust. We build a Yew.rs frontend that compiles to WebAssembly and talks to our Axum API.

Part 4 of building a full-stack URL shortener in Rust. We add API key authentication using Axum middleware and Tower layers to protect our write endpoints.

Part 3 of building a full-stack URL shortener in Rust. We add custom error types, URL validation, and structured JSON error responses to our Axum API.

Part 2 of building a full-stack URL shortener in Rust. We swap our in-memory HashMap for SQLite with sqlx, write migrations, and persist URLs across restarts.

Part 1 of building a full-stack URL shortener in Rust. We set up an Axum backend with in-memory storage, CRUD routes, and a nanoid-based slug generator.

Discover how rubber duck debugging can transform your coding experience. Learn why explaining your code to a simple rubber duck is one of the most effective troubleshooting techniques that experienced developers swear by. This practical guide shows how verbalizing your code helps identify bugs faster than traditional debugging methods.

Advent of Code is an annual challenge to push your coding skills. This blog post talks about some of the reasons to join! Let's do it!

The death of Heroku's free option is a huge loss. In this post we discuss why...

Switching from annual to quarterly goals for 2018 after completing only 1 of 5 resolutions in 2017.

Narrowing focus for 2017: restart blogging, learn Go, and speak at conferences after 4 of 15 goals in 2016.

Setting 2016 goals for blogging, photography, and conferences while reviewing 2015 results (7 of 13 achieved).

Reviewing 2014 goals (7 of 12 completed) and setting new 2015 resolutions for open source and blogging.

Goals for 2014: blog weekly, contribute to open source, complete NaNoWriMo, and get married.