A few days ago I complained about the agony of trying to write per-endpoint middleware in Axum using Tower services and layers, and how awful I found the experience every time Axum exposes Tower to me. (I still feel that way.) Josh Triplett was kind enough to point me to a relative newcomer in the Rust http framework scene, Trillium, as a good alternative.

Here are my notes on the spike I did with Trillium.

tl;dr Axum is much more popular and also finished. You are getting a more well-known and understood project when you choose it. You should probably choose it unless you have a reason not to. For now.

I built a keyboard I like the other day. You can build your own custom keyboard like this if you want to. It's more approachable than you might think!

Parts list:

• KBDFans Holy 60 case. It comes with screws, standoffs, and a torx driver for its screws.
• Silicone standoff covers, to prevent accidental shorts from the board touching the metal standoffs.
• A PCB that can be mounted in this case. Any 60% PCB that can go into the KBDFans Tofu60 original flavor can go into the Holy 60, which is a wide range of boards. I chose the DZ60 RGB with the arrow keys, because I use the arrow keys a lot. Another popular choice is the [Wooting HE 60](https://wooting.io/

0. intro (read script below)
1. Tell me a story about the last time you taught someone something at work. what was the process like? what went well / what was challenging? (This is a warmup softball question. The candidate will be prepared for something like this, and will relax while answering it.)
2. Tell me a story about the last thing someone taught you at work. (Looking for: ability to learn, learning strategies.)
3. Substitute for #2 for more senior candidates: How do you deal with stress? (Looking for: any thoughtful approach at all.)
4. What’s the hard part of [your job]? (Look for reasons why it's hard; what the candidate is doing to learn more about making it easy. Is it technical or do they have the awareness to talk about people things?)
5. Tell me a story about a time modularity (or encapsulation) worked out for you. how do you pick where to encapsulate? what’s good about modularity? what’s difficult? (This is the single most important question fo