I’m updating the theme from the previous Hyde theme to Terminal. There will be a few visual glitches as I work through the change but the basics are in place.

The syntax highlighting is still a work in progress.

What happend to the prompts?

Prompts were an interesting concept but I’ve decided not to pursue them at this time. This is mainly a choice in how I want to spend my time.

At the end of the day, what do I want to accomplish? My main goal is to produce applications and libraries. Prompts would take my focus away from this goal.

I’ve been thinking about ways to be more active in my Rust exploration and I think that I’ve settled on the idea of Prompts.

Prompts are project-based learning experiments where I will explore Rust concepts, crates, or tools. The prompts should be narrow enough in scope that they can be completed in about a week. While only spending at most an hour a day.

The prompts will include

• a goal - what I am trying to learn
• description - the scenario I am working under
• constraints - ensures the project can be scoped to a few days or a weeks worth of work
• models - the minimal high level objects I want to represent
• acceptance criteria - what I consider is done

More importantly prompts should not be

• so difficult or complex as to be discouraging.
• gotchas or brain busters

Complex topics should be the subject of their own prompt and broken down appropriately so that they may fit into the above criteria.

Welcome to Platform Goblin. A site from a very tired software/QA engineer.