Tag: Rust
All the articles with the tag "Rust".
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Share the Mark - pointing instead of describing
The feedback loop between me and my coding agent was broken: I could see the UI problem, but describing it in text was lossy and slow. So I built share-the-mark, a browser extension and CLI that hands an agent your exact markup of a live page.
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Claude Building a Bash Parser
How I had Claude Code build rable, a Rust bash parser, from scratch using Parable's test suite — reaching 99.9% accuracy and replacing tree-sitter-bash in tokf.
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Getting Into Make, Just, and Hooks
How tokf intercepts subcommands inside Make, Just, and git hooks by injecting custom shells and shimming PATH lookups — extending token compression to nested tool invocations.
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tokF a Different Approach to Token Compression
How tokF uses declarative TOML pipelines to compress CLI output before it reaches an LLM, cutting token usage by up to 90%. A story of scratching an itch and building a tool in two days.
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Finding Duplicate Rust Code Through AST Normalization (Part 1)
How cargo-dupes finds structurally identical Rust functions by parsing code into ASTs, replacing identifiers with positional placeholders, and fingerprinting the normalized trees. Part 1 of a series on duplicate detection.
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Experimenting With MCPs
Building an MCP to help Claude Code refactor more efficiently, and a benchmarking tool to test it. The results were... educational.