Hoverbear

Obsidian lets you customize your fonts with its built in settings apparatus, but that's not always quite enough for more compicated use cases.

Recently, I've been participating in some very fun TTRPG games.

Recently I was helping someone get bootstrapped on their Axum project, and they were getting a bit frustrated with the lack of context about the goings on in their application.

NixOS modules and configurations offer us a tantilizing way to express and share systems.

When I first started using Linux in 2006 I remember dreaming of a Linux Console.

I adore tinkering with my machine, trying new tools, extensions, themes, and ideas.

I fumbled a bit setting up my Xbox controller in Arch, but managed it and wanted to share.

Rust spoils me, I rarely need to reach for a debugger thanks to structured logging via tracing and errors with spantraces thanks to eyre.

A few years ago, I saw bunnie's Precursor on Crowd Supply and instantly fell in love.

Reaching for something like SUM(vals) or AVG(vals) is a common habit when using PostgreSQL.

The vim and neovim packages in Nixpkgs allow users to set custom configuration, including their customRC and any plugins they might want.

PostgreSQL offers an extension interface, and it's my belief that Rust is a fantastic language to write extensions for it.

Nix (PDF) provides users a way to access the massive Nixpkgs library of packages, create reproducable builds of software, roll slim containers, create declarative VMs, or run their whole machines.

While building the Nix packages for pl/Rust I bumped into a curious issue: I couldn't link to stdio.h, or stdbool.h!

I've always been quite fond of booting live media.

There are few things I remember more clearly from my post-secondary than this question from professor Rob Hancock: How do you define success?

The simple passage of time changes us.

It's a common pattern: a database developer at a startup is probably on the Product subteam of the Engineering team at their company.

Not long ago, Microsoft started iterating more heavily on their long-existing "Windows Subsystem for Linux" feature.

When Jepsen appeared in the industry several years ago our team at PingCAP couldn't have been happier.

If you’re an avid reader of distributed systems news like I am, you’ve probably seen your share of benchmarks.

When designing an API for your crate one topic which can come is how to handle optional arguments.

It seems that at times of monumental change in life there is a 'before' time, and an 'after' time.

In the time since my last writing life has been nothing short of a whirlwind.

First of all, happy new year!

Recently there has been quite a bit of talk about WebAssembly, a new format for code for the web.

In this post we'll be discussing one way to set up your machine for Rust development.

Recently there has been a lot of progress in the Rust language towards a robust asynchronous stack.

Lately I've been thinking a lot about the patterns and structures which we program with.

Over the last couple days at asquera we've been on a retreat at the Landhaus Fredenwalde.

Unlike most of this blog this post is not technical in the slightest, instead it's a personal update.

This is the fifth part of an ongoing series on configuring a new server.

This is the fourth of a series on taking up residence on a new server.

This is the third in a series of posts about getting settled into a server.

This is the second post of a series on settling into new servers.

This is the first in a series of posts where we'll discuss the process of obtaining, setting up, and settling into a new headless server.

Late last year I was given an opporunity to participate in the Mozilla Winter of Security 2016!

I've begun redesigning my website with my own theme!

This year helped again with Gathering Our Voices.

Back in 2014 when I was learning about Docker I got around to making a base image for Arch Linux.

I'm happy to introduce the first stable version of my Rust Heroku Buildpack!

In April, I will be graduating from University.

I was privileged to recieve one of the early Let's Encrypt beta certificates for https://hoverbear.org.

Evolving How We Learn Systems with Lessons from Programming in the Large Some bugs are just that+++a one off.

A selection of images from my trip that I thought I'd share with the world.

Wow.

The next few weeks are full of excitement and busy-ness!

I've moved my feed over from Ghost to Jekyll!

If you're like me and have Mac hardware but run Linux you might also run into the slight annoyance with the trackpad drivers X.org defaults to.

We've also got couple nice working examples!