Series

I often give bits and pieces of advice on how to build Rust stuff the comfy way. But it can be hard to see how everything comes together, especially when it comes to, say, deploying a web service in production.

So, let’s start from the very beginning (setting up a Linux VM), and march together towards the objective: a production-grade Rust web service, built with Nix.

In this series, I change a critical component of this website’s asset pipeline from “just calling a bunch of external tools” to statically linking with everything I need to process assets. It involves autoconf, CMake, Meson, CI, pkg-config, and some code crimes.

In this series, we’ll attempt to understand how Linux executables are organized, how they are executed, and how to make a program that takes an executable fresh off the linker and compresses it - just because we can.

Enhance! In this series, we’re looking at TV depictions of technology, and reviewing how realistic they are. Of course, they’re very rarely accurate, but it’s still interesting to take a look and try to figure out what they could’ve been thinking of, and just reminisce in general.