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Having fun with ooc
Unfortunately, the ooc language could have better documentation. In the meantime, I’d like to blog about about some features that might not be very well-known.
Nested functions
Here’s a program that prints 1, 3, 5, 7, 9:
import structs/ArrayList
main: func {
list := ArrayList<Int> new()
addIfOdd := func (i: Int) {
if (i % 2 != 0) list add(i)
}
for (i in 0..10) {
addIfOdd(i)
}
list map(|i| i toString()) join(", ") println()
}
Updating fasterthanli.me for 2022
In 2020, I switched from a static site generator to something homemade.
And, as tradition commands, I did a whole write-up about it.
Since writing articles and making videos is now my full-time
occupation, I took some time
to upgrade futile, my server software, to the latest and greatest the
Rust ecosystem has to offer.
Impromptu disaster recovery
Background
im-promp-tu (
im-ˈpräm(p)-(ˌ)tü)
made, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment: improvised
composed or uttered without previous preparation: extemporaneous
On March 18th, 2025, I thought I would look into self-hosted project management solutions — something kanban-y, but.. better?
This one does not spark joy.
Request coalescing in async Rust
As the popular saying goes, there are only two hard problems in computer science: caching, off-by-one errors, and getting a Rust job that isn’t cryptocurrency-related.
Today, we’ll discuss caching! Or rather, we’ll discuss… “request coalescing”, or “request deduplication”, or “single-flighting” - there’s many names for that concept, which we’ll get into fairly soon.
Doing geo-location and keeping analytics
I sold you on some additional functionality for catscii last chapter, and we
got caught up in private registry / docker shenanigans, so, now, let’s resume
web development as promised.
Adding geolocation
We kinda left the locat crate stubby, it doesn’t actually do any IP to
location lookups. It doesn’t even have a dependency on a crate that can do
that.
FFI-safe types in Rust, newtypes and MaybeUninit
More devops than I bargained for
Background
I recently had a bit of impromptu disaster recovery, and it gave me a hunger for more! More downtime! More kubernetes manifest! More DNS! Ahhhh!
The plan was really simple. I love dedicated Hetzner servers with all my heart but they are not very fungible.
You have to wait entire minutes for a new dedicated server to be provisioned. Sometimes you pay a setup fee, et cetera. And at some point to server static websites and serve as a K3S server, it’s simply just too big, and approximately twice the price that I should pay.
Recursive iterators in Rust
I’ve been looking for this blog post everywhere, but it doesn’t exist, so I guess it’s my turn to write about Some Fun with Rust.
The task at hand
Let’s say you have a recursive, acyclic data structure, like so:
struct Node {
values: Vec<i32>,
children: Vec<Node>,
}
This allows you to represent a tree-like structure:
[1, 2, 3]
/\
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
[4, 5] [6, 7]
GDB scripting and Indirect functions
Lestac: The Making Of
Update: Lestac is now available in Early Access on itch.io! Read more on the official page
So, Lestac is out! Ain’t that something? For those who don’t know, it’s Sylvain and I’s entry for Ludum Dare 28, a video game jam that happens every four months.
Here’s how it looks:
You can play it now if you haven’t yet - it’s available for Linux, OS/X, and Windows. And then you can come back and read this postmortem if you will!