Let’s write an app that watches some files for changes, runs them through Liquid templates (rs), and then compiles the output with LaTeX. It’ll take about 200 lines of code. This scheme is very useful when you need to produce some kind of document from data available to a Rust program, and when you expect to be iterating on the templates a lot.

I added a feedback form under every post on this blog. It’s a bit of client-side Javascript, a couple of serverless functions, and a proof-of-work scheme to deter spammers. Let’s see what it looks like.