One afternoon I decided that I wanted to learn a bit about the details of HTTP based APIs and user authentication. It's something I've never done from scratch. It looked like a cool little side research. While wiring the persistence I discovered that I wanted to simplify my testing armoring.

Which led to my first non-trivial proc macro.

What in turn made look back and reflect on how teams I've work with have interacted with this particular feature of rust. What I perceive as their real costs and how, at the end, "hoomans human". ...more

I've been taking notes and scribbling TODO lists, anywhere, for years. It's never been particularly useful until recently. This is the story of how chance, podcasts and silly decisions led to a complete transformation of my noties. How all that note taking effort is actually worth it.

If you keep losing "that post-it" or your table has a stack of half used notebooks, this article could be helpful. ...more

One morning, I realized "the obvious"

Instead of exposing services through IP:port pairs, what about human friendly URLs behind HTTPS? GENIUS!

How difficult could that be? What do we need? A local DNS server? Perhaps some certification-thingy that can crunch long numbers? That has to be trivial. We have docker and podman. We have beefy SOCs. Linux in every flavor. We're standing on the shoulders of giants!

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Let's take a look on how one of my backends evolved from a beefy Actix + Diesel stack into a slimmer warp + serde combo. And, just for fun, I'll add a small anecdote about forcing an innocent Web App into synchronous fetch calls and how I ended in such a dark place.

This article is part of a series covering the evolution of LillaOst.

Let's dig in. ...more

Second and final part of Rust-y parenting: WebAssembly. This covers some details about generating data visualization in real time, build artificial entries for testing and a couple details about how did I approached storage.

I'm strongly considering releasing this version of LillaOst as OpenSource. Perhaps the code can be helpful for someone starting with rust and WebAssembly. We'll see. ...more