Fascination Street

Writing for the week of March 3, 2025

This week has been another heads down week delivering tickets at the day job and writing chapters of the book at night. A lot of Rust. Some dependency updates to a Rails app.

Earlier in the week, I received a request to talk about Rust to an invite only roundtable. It’s a ways out on the calendar so I have time to continue writing the book in the meantime. Looking forward to that discussion.

I’ve also been working on supporting the two emerging Data Contract specifications in my application Schemabook. I can continue to come up with features and implement them but at some point I need to face the music and start doing some marketing. I want to devise a strategy for that. I know large companies develop sophisticated GTM strategies, but I’m bootstrapping and small. I need a strategy that works for small.

Building the support has been fun. I’m writing a Ruby gem. It has some recursion. It’s a little meta. And it feels like an art project. I’m not aiming to show it to anyone in the end. It’s about having fun during the journey. I haven’t spent a ton of time on it, but that little time I have has felt like an art project. I need to spend more time on art projects. I’m talking to myself now so I’m going to wrap up for this week. It’s been a week.

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Links

• https://lazyvim-ambitious-devs.phillips.codes/ - amazing free/paid book for LazyVim users. Which I am now. Previously was using Astronvim.
• https://buck2.build/ - a new build tool from Meta written in Rust
• https://www.arroyo.dev/blog/fast-arrow-json-decoding - great post by Arroyo on columnar JSON decoding. “The sad truth of this industry, which no one will tell you, is that so, so many data pipelines spend the bulk of their CPU time…deserializing JSON.”

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Music

• blood club - album from last year, Lovesick
• Cold Cave - album from last year, Passion Depression
• Crush of Souls - played here locally last night, listened to a number of their albums, including Void Love

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A couple of promotions each week. First, use my invite link to try Warp as your terminal. It’s fast and has some great features. I’m not affiliated with them at all, just really like it. Also, check out my project–Schemabook, especially if you work in an organization that wants to get organized around defining data through contracts and collaboration. Lastly, I’m writing a book about learning Rust if you are familiar with Ruby. Stay tuned. As always, you can connect with me more at https://mikekrisher.com.