I’ve used this awesome tool on 20 open-source projects over the last two years. Here’s my opinion — Typical problems Dependabot solves range from updating direct upstream dependencies when they get a patch release to propagating the security vulnerabilities your upstream projects have already fixed. If you have minimal time and don’t have a whole team of people to manage dependencies, Dependabot is a solution for you.

Picking up OSS dependencies — Do you ever wonder if you should include a third-party library in your code or not? Sometimes it’s worth it, but mostly it’s not. Here’s a quick way to tell: If the library is doing something you don’t comprehend, or if it’s doing something you could do yourself with little…

An HTML Table Extraction Case Study — You’ve likely heard and read dozens of stories about generics in Go about ordinary slices and maps but haven’t yet thought about a fun way to apply this feature. Let’s implement the peer of pandas.read_html, which maps HTML tables into slices of structs! If it’s achievable even with Rust, why…