Notices by Sebastian Dröge ? (slomo@toot.cat)

Some photos from today's walk with @vivia.

Featuring: A hooded crow looking over the scenery, a branch of an almond tree with colourful yellow/greenish and white lichen, almond flowers in full bloom and dozens of sparrows sitting together on a hedge.

#Photography #Crow #BirdWatching #Lichen #LichenSubscribe #Almond #AlmondBlossom #Sparrow #Thessaloniki #Greece

Bird and cat pictures from today's walk along the sea with @vivia.

#Photography #BirdWatching #CatsOfMastodon #Thessaloniki #Greece

The Rust base64 crate got a new release the other day, which removed (or rather deprecated for now) the simple encoding/decoding API and requires quite a bit boilerplate for such a simple task.

The maintainer does not see the point in providing a simpler API for the common cases because if the API is too difficult to use then Rust is just the wrong language for you ?

Too bad the crate has such a prominent name on crates.io and is used so widely. I hope that doesn't turn away too many beginners because something as simple as base64 handling is so complicated.

The data-encoding crate looks like a good alternative for the same tasks. It provides the same amount of flexibility while still providing a simple API for the common tasks.

https://lib.rs/crates/data-encoding

#rust #RustLang