http://blog.asleson.org/tags/rust/ Recent content in Rust on blog.asleson.org Hugo en-us tony dot asleson@gmail.com (Tony Asleson) tony dot asleson@gmail.com (Tony Asleson) &copy; Copyright 1999-2026 Tony Asleson Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog.asleson.org/2026/04/23/rasterlab-building-an-image-editor-with-claude-code/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000tony dot asleson@gmail.com (Tony Asleson) http://blog.asleson.org/2026/04/23/rasterlab-building-an-image-editor-with-claude-code/ <p>The question was simple enough: <em>How good of an image editor can you build with $20 worth of Claude Code Pro subscription?</em></p> <p>The answer, after one month and roughly that budget, is: surprisingly good, occasionally wrong about performance, and frustratingly confident about things it hadn&rsquo;t measured.</p> <p>RasterLab is a non-destructive RAW image editor written in Rust, built almost entirely by Claude Code. Not prototyped by it, not scaffolded by it &mdash; actually built by it, with me driving direction and reviewing the output. One month, four weekly usage blocks, one image editor.</p>