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Why Rust finally clicked for me after two failed attempts

Ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes used to feel like fighting the compiler. Here's the mental model shift that made everything fall into place.

rust systems March 28, 2026 · 8 min read

A walkthrough of how I built a local AI-powered commit message generator — from cobra commands to packaging it on Homebrew.

Not every side project needs Postgres, Redis, and a message queue. SQLite is wildly underrated for apps with fewer than a million users.

Feature-based folders, co-located tests, and a hard no on barrel files. The opinionated structure I keep coming back to.

ProxyJump, IdentityFile per host, and aliases that save me 30+ keystrokes a day. A quick tour of the config tricks I wish I'd learned sooner.