Allen Wyma talks with Matthias Endler, the creator of lychee, a stream-based link checker written in Rust that finds broken hyperlinks and mail addresses inside of HTML and Markdown documents as well as websites.

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Timestamps

[@00:00] - Meet Matthias: Rust consultant and creator of lychee [@01:55] - Protocol support, valid links, and lychee features [@14:51] - What inspired the creation of lychee [@19:25] - Supporting open-source projects and advice for creators starting their own [@32:17] - Staying on top of dependencies: why upgrading matters [@47:45] - New features being added to lychee

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Lychee with Matthias Endler

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