Today, I challenged myself to write a prometheus exporter for MPD in Rust. Shut up and show me the code! Here you go and here you go for submitting patches. The challenge I recently started monitoring my server with prometheus and grafana. I am no-way a... (more…)

I don’t think I’d surprise many people if I told them a Rust program was often faster than a Python program but today I wrote a small “script” that scanned a large log file for a regular expression and was surprised to find the Rust version ran >400x f... (more…)

In a previous post I implemented the game of Codenames in Rust, allowing a human player to interact with the computer playing randomly. Now let's implement a smarter computer agent, using word vectors. Word vectors (or word embeddings) are a way of conve... (more…)

The XDG base directory specification exists to address the problem of where programs should look for various kinds of files on a Unix system. Traditionally, in Unix, a per-program, per-user configuration file is stored as a “dot file”: program foo would e... (more…)

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