You might have seen those obnoxious “you should rewrite it in Rust comments” here and there: in a blogpost in a Github issue you might have heard about that Rust Evangelism Strike Force… (more…)

linked to by This Week in Rust! Since I’ve been quickly becoming a Rustacean (Rust enthusiast) – see previous posts here – I decided to take a crack at the parser for my baseball … (more…)

Redis is a fantastic noSQL database with a beautifully simple design. One of the fundamental responsibilities of the redis server is to encode and decode RESP (Redis Serialization Protocol) messages. For example, when a client issues the command: (more…)

Last fall I was working on a library to make a safe API for driving futures on top of an an io-uring instance. Though I released bindings to liburing called iou, the futures integration, called ostkreuz, was never released. I don’t know if I will pick thi... (more…)

During an ongoing argument in a chatroom between some folks about how “zomg systemd is ruining everything”, I decided to look at some init system history. I learned a cool tidbit of information from a HN comment1: apparently systemd’s design was inspired ... (more…)