Historically, running cargo upgrade on: # Cargo.toml # ... [dependencies] getargs = "0.5.0" structopt = "*" thiserror = "*" used to become # Cargo.toml # ... [dependen... (more…)

🐙 OctoBase is the open-source database behind AFFiNE, local-first, yet collaborative. A light-weight, scalable, data engine written in Rust. - GitHub - toeverything/OctoBase: 🐙 OctoBase is the open... (more…)

There are lots of hard problems in industrial research but one of the hardest is timing. If you start a project too early, your users are focused on other problems and don’t yet feel a need for your solution. And, if you start a project too late, your use... (more…)

Over the last few weeks I built my own DNS client. Mostly because I thought dig (the standard DNS client) was kinda clunky. Partly because I wanted to learn more about DNS. So here's how I built it, and how you can build your own too. It's a great weekend... (more…)

Fact: I'm writing these articles and examples on a Windows machine and so far everything compiles and works as expected. Just so you know, Rust supports Windows in the top tier. I'm mentioning it here since a few people I talked to assumed Windows support...