Hi Chris,

awesome show, been listening to it almost daily during my holiday break while learning Rust.

I've caught up to the RBR 2017 mini interviews, but unfortunately it seems those aren't available (anymore).

For example, when trying to download this URL:

https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/newrustacean/interview/rbr_2017/jess_saxeter.mp3

Backblaze returns:

{
  "code": "not_found",
  "message": "bucket newrustacean does not have file: interview/rbr_2017/jess_saxeter.mp3",
  "status": 404
}

Same goes for the "Increasing Rust's Reach" three-parter.

Hey there Chris,

Thanks again for the fantastic resource, just catching up on previous episodes; noticed I cannot seem to download Interview 2 Part 2 from the url listed in the feed:
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.m4a/cdn.newrustacean.com/interview_2_part_2.m4a

Listening to the second half via mp3 from the show notes; it might just be the m4a...

Thanks again for such a positive contribution to the Rust community!

I use the following bookmarklet (minified) to allow me to adjust playback speed on third-party sites that don't give me control.

javascript:(function(){
    function setAllMediaPlaybackSpeed(speed) {
        [].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll('audio,video')).map(
            function(e, idx) {
                e.playbackRate = speed;
            }
        );
    }
    var userRequestedRate = parseFloat(prompt("What playback rate would you like?"),10);
    if(!isNaN(userRequestedRate)) {
        setAllMediaPlaybackSpeed(userRequestedRate);
    }
})()

It'd be great to have something like this (but with nicer UI) for new rustacean (happy to PR something that sniffs the tags, then injects speed buttons underneath). Just a nice feature for any audio I feel.

Would appreciate any design guidance as otherwise it'd likely be ugly buttons or links.

Instead of .html in links there're .html.html.

http://www.newrustacean.com/src/show_notes/src/e009.rs.html.html#1-234
vs
http://www.newrustacean.com/src/show_notes/src/e009.rs.html#1-234

The reason for the issue is rust-lang/rust#32113, which was fixed a day ago and works fine in the latest nightly. Show notes need to be re-published after nightly upgrade.

If viewing pages such as https://newrustacean.com/show_notes/news/rust_1_32/, there is no link to the rss feed for the podcast. There is also no obvious link to the homepage (clicking the logo takes you to https://newrustacean.com/show_notes/index.html)

cf. discussion on lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/vxfth4/news_rust_1_32#c_tbmrva

See here for initial report.

The transition: all 0.5s ease; is missing from Firefox; only the -webkit--prefixed version is present. Moreover, there is no need at this point for the prefixed version of transition anyway.

Hello,

I use Spotify a lot for podcasts, and I noticed that New Rustacean is not available on there. Spotify simply outsources their aggregation to other podcast aggregators so I don't think there's any arduous process to go through.

Instructions are here: https://artists.spotify.com/faq#how-do-i-get-a-podcast-on-spotify
I notice that New Rustacean is on at least PodBean, the instructions for activation on Spotify through PodBean are here, and look to be basically a single click: http://help.podbean.com/support/solutions/articles/25000014128-how-to-submit-your-podbean-podcast-to-spotify

Cheers,

P

Wades through the archives.

Oh, what's this? It looks like you didn't finish the thought.

Rendered.

• http://pca.st/DG0A
• https://overcast.fm/itunes1041815075/new-rustacean

Via @focusaurus:

I was looking at

https://newrustacean.com/show_notes/news/rust_1_28/

I clicked through to the release notes, but the link is relative to master, so I was reading the 1.29 release notes thinking it applied to 1.28.

I think a stable URL to link to is

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/1.28.0/RELEASES.md

Blocked by #58.

is missing a link to

https://request-for-explanation.github.io/podcast/

I wanted to give some hints on how to integrate metadata for Flattr which podcatchers can use to allow 'flattring' of the podcast/individual episodes manually or even automatically after an episode has been played:

Basically you add this to <channel>:

<atom:link rel="payment" title="Flattr this!"
    href="https://flattr.com/submit/auto?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewrustacean.com%2F&amp;user_id=chriskrycho" type="text/html" />

And then this to each <item> (change the url parameter to the url of the episode's show notes of course):

<atom:link rel="payment" title="Flattr this!"
    href="https://flattr.com/submit/auto?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewrustacean.com%2Fshow_notes%2Fbonus%2F_6%2F&amp;user_id=chriskrycho" type="text/html" />

Feed embedding is also documented here.
You can also add more metadata to the things that are flattred.

Note that I haven't tried this myself, but other podcasters are doing it the same way (eg. in this feed).

I would have written a pull request, but I could not find the code generating the feed.

Here https://github.com/chriskrycho/newrustacean.com/blob/master/src/e003.rs#L101
Is a_unit supposed to be Unit but was left as a_unit due to some rename that took place from a_unit to Unit at some point? Or, I'm misunderstanding how rust works (I haven't yet started learning it)
In other words, did you mean RelatedishThings::Unit instead of RelatedishThings::a_unit ? or does that Unit somehow get transformed by rust into a_unit which would be frightening :D ?

Thanks.

EDIT: also this: https://github.com/chriskrycho/newrustacean.com/blob/master/src/e003.rs#L112 AUnit ?
EDIT2: I'm beginning to think it's definitely a leftover from renaming it...

The latest episode's link in XML feed is broken.

<link>http://newrustacean.com/show_notes/crates_you_should_know/_2/</link>
c3131b4#diff-7f483546313aed892ed9333f7737bbeaR44

It should be
<link>http://newrustacean.com/show_notes/crates_you_should_know/_1/</link>

Is this hard-coded? I don't know your feed generation process, so open an issue instead of pull request.

The following line e001: Document all the things! doesn't go to the actual page:

Actual: http://www.newrustacean.com/show_notes/index.html

Using DreamObjects is usually fine, but it keeps dropping out. Investigate other (non-AWS) alternatives:

• Backblaze B2?

In e005, you state that variable length array declarations are not allowed in C without malloc. In fact, this was a mandatory feature in C99 (though it was made optional in C11)

On the sponsors page, both Aaron Turon and Alexander Payne are listed to have contributed "September – March 2018". I don't know in which year's September they started, but as it's written, it reads a bit like time travel...

It would be extremely handy for this to build based on merges to master, so that:

• user contributions merged in rebuild the site automatically (e.g. #8, which is in master but, because I haven't been able to rebuild the site yet, isn't live)
• all I have to do to update the site myself is push from my local copy

Things required:

• A working Travis configuration (travis.yml)
• A sane build script for it to run (using cargo doc, cp, and ghp-import)—could be as simple as a makefile, but only if the makefile is set up correctly.

When talking about c being weakly typed, you give the example of adding together an integer and a character array. Of all possible example, this one is a bad example of weak typing, as the result is well defined and the operation very common.
Conversions between integral types, including integer promotions, are probably a better example on that point.

Btw, love the podcast!

I've found an interview with a broken download links:

• Module show_notes::cysk::_1
• Broken link

With a custom domain this is ultimately blocked on isaacs/github#156 .

It is controversial whether to use a CDN to do partial HTTPS such as CloudFlare's Flexible SSL.