I'm a little behind with this update as it took me a little longer to prepare and launch my project: diff-libraries. I'm planning to write a more detailed post on that later, but it's my most involved Rust project so far. The webserver is powered by Rocket and it uses…
I think I'm starting to understand why people like Rust so much. The tooling, especially rustup and cargo are pretty fantastic. The fact that rustfmt (code auto-formatter), clippy (linter) and a test runner are all integrated through cargo is super convenient. I feel like Python used to have that with…
I'm trying to learn Rust this summer. I've found I learn languages the best by just trying to do something in it, figuring out the building blocks as I go along. So I plan on writing/porting different projects to Rust. This week I set up rustup, installed the stable and…
Things that are inevitable in life: taxes, death, and useless GitHub security notifications.
We had an extended family Zoom call yesterday. My uncle had difficulties joining with audio, so my cousin (in a different location) started facetiming with him on her phone and held it up to the computer screen so he could see us and talk. It was cute but also really…
My accomplishment for this week is acing the Cybersecurity category, including the two triple stumpers that none of the #JeopardyGOAT s got right!http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=6522
I mostly set up Qubes last night, but Thunderbird did not migrate well at all, so I'm not checking my email right now.Specifically, all of the mail filters on my POP accounts broke. :/
If you haven't already, it's the perfect time to start running an ArchiveTeam Warrior to help backup the Internet. Current efforts are focused on saving Google+.https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior#archiveteam #googleminus
SFScon18 - Molly de Blanc - User freedom: A love story. This is one of the most relatable software freedom talks I've watched recently. As a college student trying to make friends, let alone find romantic partners, using non-free software is incredibly difficult to avoid. Aside from online dating, which…
Do you ever have those days where you have a plan of what you want to do but it gets thrown away because of a critical apt vulnerability and then you have to remember all the Debian systems you're responsible for, plus all the docker images that you use?Anyways, here's…
My new Purism laptop arrived yesterday. My old MacBook that I was planning to replace with it got jealous and died this morning, and fsck'ing hasn't helped. Now in recovery mode running cp -R / onto an external drive.
It's been a relatively productive year for the packaging of Kiwix, an offline Wikipedia reader, in Debian. My minimum expectations for the Buster release scheduled in mid-2019 are that all necessary C/C++ libraries to build the latest versions of Kiwix are in Debian. libzim is at v4.0.4, and basically ready…
Thank you #Thunderbird.
I finally had the opportunity to give pytest a real try (I'm porting tests from ruby to Python), and it's amazing! Waaay better than unittest/nosetests. I especially liked the parametrization feature, which I think PHPUnit could probably benefit from. Specifically, I like how I could specify two parameters separately, and…
What's the value in using Linux packages for your software vs installing from git? https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/06/msg00097.html explained it really well. The explanation I tell people for MediaWiki is that if you want a wiki that just works and would like to forget about administering it - use the Debian package. If…