I fell into a rabbit hole. It all started with quarantine, and too many Zoom calls. (more…)

Tests that affect networking subsystem are destined to be error-prone. Network stack acts as a shared environment, so tests can’t really run in parallel. God forbid if you tickle the firewall rules and the test fails to restore the original state. You end... (more…)

Diesel is a framework for Object Relational Mapping and Query Building. It’s goal is to get rid of alot of boilerplate code usually needed for interacting with a database. It should feel like Rust, so that the developer does not need to write SQL and inst... (more…)

As most embedded developers I'm addled by a disease: code vertigo. I like my code flush to the earth, where I can take an ear to the ground and hear the fuzzy rumble of electrons and the crackle of dodgy solder joints. When code at that level collapses it... (more…)

Rust's trait system is wonderful. Everyone I know that has used it agrees with this statement. It's a great way to encode shared behaviour between data types, and create flexible APIs. (more…)