Isaac Bythewood's Blog

The Rust ecosystem is unreasonably good

A second pass on the Rust port of my blog. I deleted the chromium PDF subprocess and replaced it with embedded Typst. Notes on axum, comrak, minijinja, and a typesetting compiler that ships as a crate.

Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2026-05-09

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Counting table row counts in PostgreSQL
Counting table row counts in PostgreSQL
An easy way to count the number of rows in a PostgreSQL table and sort by totals allowing you to find what's taking up space in your database.
Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2022-05-28
Running a simple Django website in Docker
Running a simple Django website in Docker
Using Docker to run a simple production and development environments with a few extras thrown in. Easily customized to your preferred language or framework.
Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2022-05-14
Adding dark mode with automatic system preference selection
Adding dark mode with automatic system preference selection
Creating a dark, or light, version of your website may seem like a daunting task if you think you need an entirely new color pallet. It's 2022 though and we have the widely supported invert CSS filter.
Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2022-07-02