[draft] Small post about recent hecto-rs project

Author: callpraths

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+title:  "Hecto.rs - A toy Rusty text editor"
+date:   2025-01-16 00:00:00 +0000
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+I took a break from paid work in the later half of 2025 with the goal of intentionally choosing the next iteration of my career.
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+One of the outcomes is more time to play around with Rust, something I've wanted to do for years.
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+A big shout out to [Philipp Flenker](https://philippflenker.com/) for a great write up on a small project to build a terminal text editor in Rust called [Hecto.rs](https://github.com/philippflenker/hecto-rs).
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+👉 Here's my take on it over the winter holidays: [https://github.com/callpraths/hecto-rs](https://github.com/callpraths/hecto-rs). 👈
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+The final architecture and code structure doesn't follow Philipp's, as I made my own incremental design choices through the process.
+Had a ton of fun, and..
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