alsuren.github.io

Open Source Projects

Most of my open source contributions happen on GitHub and are tracked on Trello, with a WIP limit to stop myself going insane.

Highlights include:

mijia-homie - A home monitoring project which feeds temperature and humidity readings to Grafana.
- This also spawned [bluez-async](https://github.com/bluez-rs/bluez-async - A BlueZ helper library which is useful in its own right.
hoverkite - A project to fly a kite using hoverboard motors.
cargo-quickinstall - A wrapper around cargo install that can fetch prebuilt executables to speed things up.
- The eventual aim is to make a cargo quickbuild command that wraps cargo build, and can bootstrap your dependency tree with prebuilt assets on first build. This is a bit of a moon-shot though. Progress is tracked in the cargo-quick organization.

Presentations

I’ve been using remark excalidraw (specifically my embed-all-the-things branch) and npx live-server for writing my presentations recently. I quite like the workflow. So far, I have written internal presentations about:

Some internal presentations.
My home monitoring project for Binary Solo, and updated for Rust London.

Socials

Mastadon: @alsuren@mastodon.me.uk
Twitter: @alsuren

CV

My CV can be found here. PDF versions available on request.

Posts

Jul 30, 2022
Why cargo-quickbuild?

In my previous post, I reviewed the history of cargo-quickinstall and introduced my cargo-quickbuild idea. When reviewing it with workmates, we thought it might be useful compare it against the other solutions that already exist in this space. I will attempt to do so in this blog post.
Jul 10, 2022
The cargo-quickinstall journey - how I made a thing for installing rust programs quickly
Feb 19, 2022
Monitoring Temperature (with too many Bluetooth thermometers)
Aug 13, 2021
Docker Yaks

I have given myself a target of not installing Docker Desktop on this laptop since I did the reinstall. Let’s see how much pain that causes.
Jul 26, 2021
Initial impressions of nushell

Recently I’ve been recording my impressions of technologies as I start using them. This is so that I can remember what my pain points are when I’m onboarding other people later, or contributing to the project.
Jul 6, 2021
Early impressions of WasmCloud

First impressions of technologies are quite important for driving adoption, so I’ve started writing down my early impressions as I explore different technologies.
Jul 6, 2021
Early impressions of NATS

First impressions of technologies are quite important for driving adoption, so I’ve started writing down my early impressions as I explore different technologies.
Jun 28, 2021
Early impressions of Dapr

It’s worth writing down some impressions about dapr, and especially its tooling.
Jun 9, 2021
Infrastructure Musings

Thoughts about infrastructure and platforms. Originally posted on the red-badger tech site.
Jun 2, 2019
(Sunday) - Found https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-repos

All of my previous analysis was on repos that got as far as being published on crates.io. This excludes repos from beginner rust users and repos that aren’t libraries. After downloading all of the configs pointed to by that repo, and re-running the analysis, I added a comment to https://github.com/killercup/cargo-edit/issues/218 with my findings.
May 29, 2019
Got a screen

I was expecting to spend the day fiddling about with profiling, but the previous night I did some more reading around dtrace (there was a hint on dtrace.org about using appropros dtrace to find a bunch of pre-installed tools that are written using dtrace).
May 22, 2019
Got a desk frame

I started to do some analysis of the examples I found the previous week. Of the 6408 Cargo.toml examples that I downloaded from github (and ran cargo add --manifest-path=$f boringssl@0.0.5 against), here is the breakdown.
May 15, 2019
cargo_edit examples

There are a bunch of issues filed against cargo-edit around it scrambling the input formatting. For example this one, this one and this one. I wrote a script to download all of the Cargo.toml files I could find, to see how bad the problem is. It’s beautiful (or something).
May 8, 2019
Slow start

You know how sometimes when you’re given an opportunity to relax a bit, everything falls apart and you end up crawling back into bed? This was one of those days. I ended up watching some of Jon Gjengset’s stream but that’s about as close I got to doing anything productive.
May 7, 2019
Intro

I’ve recently gone from a 5 day week to a 4 day week, so that I can make more contributions to open source software/communities. My “project day” is Wednesday. I thought it would be interesting to record what I get up to each week. At the moment I don’t have much velocity, because I’ve also got a lot of life stuff to sort out. If I don’t get bored of this, I might turn it into an actual blog. For now, it will be an append-mostly log.