I have 4 children aged 4, 3, almost 2, and 19 weeks. Parents are increasingly isolated from each other socially so it's harder to compare tactics and strategies for caregiving. I want to share a run-down of how my wife and I care for our children and what has seemed to work and what has not.

I've been getting some questions from people about how to use Diesel and particularly diesel-async for interacting with SQL databases in Rust. I thought I'd write up a quick post with some patterns and examples.

The example project on GitHub for this post is located at: https://github.com/bitemyapp/better-living-through-petroleum/tree/blog/diesel-async-in-anger

The blog/diesel-async-in-anger Git tag is so you can see the version of the code that I'm using for this post.

I bought Luca Palmieri's book on the recommendation of a colleague and wanted to share my own thoughts on it as a production Rust user. I offer my thoughts as I go through the book linearly. I intentionally don't go out of my way to contextualize my commentary as this is not intended to be a substitute for Luca's excellent book. Also, it saves me time writing this blog post.

I was received into the Catholic Church on the Easter Vigil of 2019.

In the past, I talked about how to make your CI builds faster using Drone CI. I don't use DroneCI any more and haven't for a couple years now so I wanted to talk about what I use now.