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- November 2019
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The many rewrites of the itch.io desktop app
I started working on the itch.io desktop app over 4 years ago.
It has arguably been my main project ever since, along with companion projects like butler, capsule and many...
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Parsing IPv4 packets, including numbers smaller than bytes
Making our own ping: Part 11
Hello and welcome to Part 11 of this series, wherein we finally use some of the code I prototyped way back when I was planning this series.
Where are we standing?
Let’s...
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Improving error handling - panics vs. proper errors
Making our own ping: Part 10
Before we move on to parsing more of our raw packets, I want to take some time to improve our error handling strategy.
Currently, the
ersatzcodebase contains a mix of... -
Rust 2020: Funding
Blog posts that praise Rust are many but funding is generally in short supply.
If even a small percentage of the money Rust saves companies was put back into the ecosystem it...
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Consuming Ethernet frames with the nom crate
Making our own ping: Part 9
Now that we’ve found the best way to find the “default network interface”… what can we do with that interface?
Well, listen for network traffic of...
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Binding C APIs with variable-length structs and UTF-16
Making our own ping: Part 8
Okay, I lied.
I’m deciding - right this instant - that using wmic is cheating too. Oh, it was fair game when we were learning about Windows, but we’re past that now....
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Finding the default network interface through WMI
Making our own ping: Part 7
Let’s set aside our
supproject for a while.Don’t get me wrong - it’s a perfectly fine project, and, were we simply rewriting “ping” for Windows...
- October 2019
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Program in C (Parody song)
Once upon a time, @Cinememer wrote some alternative lyrics to “Under The Sea”. I couldn’t resist singing them!
