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Bitplanes in a Sokoban Level Solver

#Rust#WASM#Bitplanes#Sokoban#Algorithms

I've been building a Sokoban editor and solver for tilebasedworlds.com — a side project for tile-based puzzle tools. The solver ships entirely in the browser as a WASM binary, which meant the first real question was not "how do I implement A*?" but "how do I represent a level?" …

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How I Was Convinced to Take Rust Seriously

#Rust#WASM#Leptos#TypeScript#Cloudflare

In the previous article I described a path from dynamic languages toward TypeScript, and from TypeScript toward stricter compiled languages. Rust is the end of that path — but it took some convincing to get there, and the thing that convinced me wasn't the systems programming …

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SQLite in 2026

#SQL#SQLite#WASM#Cloudflare#Vectors

I wrote my first SQLite article in 2011 while debugging an Adobe AIR app. The problem was a quoting edge case; the solution was a one-liner. SQLite was a curiosity — a file-based database you used when you didn’t want to run a server. Fifteen years later, SQLite is having a …

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WASM Tooling — A Practical Cheat Sheet

#WASM#WebAssembly#Rust#Go#TinyGo

The WebAssembly ecosystem has accumulated a solid set of command-line tools that don’t get surfaced well in most introductory material. Tutorials tend to focus on one language path — Rust via wasm-pack, or Go, or Emscripten — and leave the broader toolchain unexplained. This is a …

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Cloudinary DAM

#Cloud#Image#CDN#Rust#WASM

I was lucky enough recently to implement Cloudinary as a DAM solution on a project. A DAM being short for a digital asset manager. This is a type of cloud service typically used in the media and entertainment sectors. They’ve been around for decades but SaaS solutions have opened …

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