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Dreb Draft

Notes-and-Miscellanea Derb Rederb Dreb

Time to start thinking about rewriting my tiny podcast feed generation tool.
This time in Rust.

I’ll call it Dreb.

This post is to keep all my thoughts and research in one place.

Big Picture Path
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  • Learn some tiny amount of Rust to get started I need to read the the whole bloody book
  • Read the Rust book steadily.
    • Chapter 7: Packages, Crates, and Modules - 2026-10-08
    • Chapter 8: Common Collections - 2026-10-08
    • Chapter 9: Error Handling - 2026-10-09
    • Chapter 10: Generic Types, Traits, and Lifetimes - 2026-10-09
    • Chapter 11: Writing Automated Tests - 2026-10-10
    • Chapter 12: An I/O Project: Building a Command Line Program - 2026-10-10
    • Chapter 13: Functional Language Features: Iterators and Closures - 2026-10-11
    • Chapter 14: More About Cargo and Crates.io - 2026-10-11
    • Chapter 15: Smart Pointers - 2026-10-12
    • Chapter 16: Fearless Concurrency - 2026-10-12
    • Chapter 17: Fundamentals of Asynchronous Programming - 2026-10-12
    • Chapter 18: Object-Oriented Programming Features - 2026-10-13
    • Chapter 19: Patterns and Matching - 2026-10-13
    • Chapter 20: Advanced Features - 2026-10-13
    • Chapter 21: Final Project: Building a Multithreaded Web Server - 2026-10-13
    • Appendix A: Keywords - 2026-10-13
    • Appendix B: Operators and Symbols - 2026-10-13
    • Appendix C: Derivable Traits - 2026-10-13
    • Appendix D: Useful Development Tools - 2026-10-13
    • Appendix E: Editions - 2026-10-13
  • Learn how to structure a Rust CLI app with John Arundel’s Rust Tools book
  • Begin writing a cli program and learn as I go on the way

Tools and notes and research.
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  • A tag reader. Lofty seems to be a popular choice
  • Research how to write a podcast feed on my own. Will want to add many extensions to it later and most current generators don’t support that.

2026-10-08
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  • Ok, no. Realised reading the Arundel book, that I need more knowledge. The book just assumes traits. Which I have not read yet. So yea, some gap between what they say is expected and what is actually expected. Yes, I could muddle through, but I’d rather do the Rust book at a steady clip.

2026-10-13
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  • Done with the Rust book. Now to try doing Arundel (or something similar) tomorrow onwards.

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