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Heath Stewart's Blog

The blog of Heath Stewart, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

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Cargo scripts are also manifests

Cargo scripts are single-file packages written in Rust. They are also valid Cargo manifests for built-in and popular commands like clippy.

Introducing the sequoia-recommend button

The sequoia-recommend button lets readers recommend your Sequoia posts directly from your site using their Bluesky account.

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Support for enhanced links in Sequoia

Support for enhanced links is coming to Sequoia.

Initial stable release of Azure SDK for Rust

I'm excited to announce our initial stable release of the Azure SDK for Rust including Storage blobs and queues, and Key Vault secrets, keys, and certificates.

Cooler theme palette

I updated the blob light and dark themes to use a cooler color palette.

Improving the Azure SDK developer experience with MCP

Providing version-specfic context to an LLM using an MCP can greatly improve productivity and reduce cost.

Light and dark themes for my blog

I added light and dark themes to my blog along with some responsive fixes on smaller screens with a little help.

We all make mistakes

We all make mistakes - at any level - but how we deal with them is how we grow.

Making the key version required for Key Vault cryptography APIs

Why we changed the key version to be a required parameters for Key Vault cryptography APIs in Azure SDK for Rust.

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Cleaning up Rust made easier

Changes in WSL appear to have made shrinking a VHDX containing a WSL distro easier. These are new, simpler instructions for cleaning up rust and shrinking a distro.

Publishing to the ATmosphere

Using standard.site and sequoia.pub, my blob should now start publishing documents to ATProto.

Cross-compiling x64 on Aarch64

How to support cross-compiling -sys crates for x64 (x86_64) on Ubuntu 24.04 aarch64 (arm64) in WSL2.