Depth-First
depth-first.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Richard Apodaca writes about Rust, WebAssembly, parsers and cheminformatics, drawing on his background in chemistry software.
What HN saysHN commenters recommend it for very clear explanations and link it for Rust REPL setups and using WebAssembly without Emscripten.
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- 1Postgres Extensions in Rust4 people · 10 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 2Returning Iterators in Rust (2020)2 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 3Scanner-Driven Parser Development (2019)2 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 4Compiling C to WebAssembly and Running It – Without Emscripten2 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 5Bridge to Nowhere1 people · 172 points · first shared 2024 · 98 comments on HN
- 6Graphs in Rust: Introducing GraphCore1 people · 6 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 7PubCouch: A CouchDB Interface to PubChem1 people · 4 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 8Rust and WebAssembly from Scratch: Hello World with Strings1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 9Show HN: A Google Closure Project Template1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 10Just a Flesh Wound1 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 11A Beginner's Guide to Parsing in Rust1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 12Why This Scientist Supports the Research Works Act (HR 3699)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 13Types Without TypeScript1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 14Delocalization-Induced Molecular Equality1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 15University of California Threatens Boycott of Nature Publishing Group1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
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emmelaich · 2024-10-11
Agree, great writing. I particularly liked 'George' -- https://depth-first.com/articles/2023/08/19/george/
gilleain · 2023-10-17
Another useful resource might be this blog : https://depth-first.com/ Richard Apodaca has some very clear explanations of topics in the field.
sitkack · 2023-02-11
While not Elixir good, the evcxr python notebook plugin gets you 50% of the way there.
https://depth-first.com/articles/2020/09/21/interactive-rust-in-a-repl…
https://github.com/google/evcxr
The other option is to use the playground, https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=…
entee · 2022-05-31
Such a database would be hugely helpful across chemistry. Right now it’s extremely expensive to access databases like Reaxys or Scifinder, and they’re not usually programmatically searchable at scale. Some databases do exist based on the patent literature (https://depth-first.com/articles/2019/01/28/the-nextmove-patent-reacti… but they’re not as well curated or complete. A pubchem like database for reactions would be really awesome.
bla3 · 2022-04-11
These are also good resources on using wasm without dependencies:
https://depth-first.com/articles/2019/10/16/compiling-c-to-webassembly…
https://github.com/diekmann/wasm-fizzbuzz
Retric · 2012-10-17
True, enough. There are plenty of company's like IBM where giving up patent revenue without changes to the patent system would heavily impact there profits. However, IBM has donated a fair number of patents in the past.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/technology/11soft.html
Along massive quantities of data. http://depth-first.com/articles/2011/12/15/ibm-donates-large-collectio…