221 results for "":
Making a dev shell with nix flakes
In the previous chapter, we’ve made a nix “dev shell” that contained the fly.io command-line utility, “flyctl”.
That said, that’s not how I want us to define a dev shell.
Our current solution has issues. I don’t like that it has import <nixpkgs>.
Which version of nixpkgs is that? The one you’re on? Who knows what that is.
Also, we haven’t really seen a mechanism to use .nix files from elsewhere.
The rest of the fucking owl
NO! No no no.
What?
WE WERE DONE!
Well… yes! But also no. We still shell out to a bunch of tools:
$ rg 'Command::new'
src/commands/mod.rs
126: let variant = if let Ok(output) = run_command(Command::new("wslpath").arg("-m").arg("/")) {
src/commands/cavif.rs
29: Command::new("cavif")
src/commands/imagemagick.rs
25: Command::new(&self.bin)
src/commands/cwebp.rs
25: Command::new("cwebp")
src/commands/svgo.rs
25: Command::new("svgo")
And then there were fewer bugs
Intro
This deals with rock internals, so fasten your seatbelts and expect many weird things along the way. I’m not necessarily proud of the state of the implementation, I’m just rolling with it and trying to improve it gradually rather than throw everything away.
An error out of nowhere
While working on my current game, John Q. Adamant, I was looking to extract a class into another module - this is routine refactoring and shouldn’t be too hard.
Pin and suffering
Disclaimer:
async fn in trait has shipped in Rust 1.75, about 2.5 years after
this article was written.
I’d like to think that my understanding of “async Rust” has increased over the past year or so. I’m 100% onboard with the basic principle: I would like to handle thousands of concurrent tasks using a handful of threads. That sounds great!
Deploying at the edge
Disclaimer:
Although I no longer work for the company my website is hosted on, and this article is written in way that mentions neither my previous or current hosting provider: at the time of this writing, I don’t pay for hosting.
One thing I didn’t really announce (because I wanted to make sure it worked before I did), is that I’ve migrated my website over completely from a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to an ADN (Application Delivery Network), and that required some architectural changes.
Setting up a local Ubuntu Server VM
The first step to using Nix to build Rust is to do so without Nix, so that when we finally do, we can feel the difference.
There’s many ways to go about this: everyone has their favorite code editor, base Linux distribution (there’s even a NixOS distribution, which I won’t cover). Some folks like to develop on macOS first, and then build for Linux.
Does Dioxus spark joy?
Note: this article is adapted from a presentation I gave at a Rust Paris Meetup — that’s why it sounds a little different than usual. Enjoy!
Good evening! Tonight, I will attempt to answer the question: Does Dioxus spark joy? Or at the very least, whimsy.
What’s Dioxus, you ask? It is first and foremost a name that is quote: “legally not inspired by any Pokémon”.
Three gamedev surprises
Despite their peaceful appearance, game developers actually lead thrilling lives! Here are three things I learned (or re-learned) about yesterday that I’d like to share with you, in the form of assumptions that revealed false.
VSync is relatively straightforward. Right?
As an obsessive-compulsive, bipolar, perfectionist game dev, getting your game to run smoothly on all kinds of operating systems, graphics cards, and drivers combination is something of a holy grail. Many look for it, but let’s be honest here, it never really turns out as expected.
Using the Shipyard private crate registry with Docker
Wait wait wait, so we’re not talking about nix yet?
Well, no! The service we have is pretty simple, and I want to complicate things a bit, to show how things would work in both the Dockerfile and the nix scenario.
And because I don’t like contrived examples, we’re going to do something somewhat real-world: we’re going to geo-locate visitors, and track how many visits we get from each country.