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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.
The cargo-quickinstall journey - how I made a thing for installing rust programs quickly
Monitoring Temperature (with too many Bluetooth thermometers)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Early impressions of Dapr
It’s worth writing down some impressions about dapr, and especially its tooling.
Infrastructure Musings
Thoughts about infrastructure and platforms. Originally posted on the red-badger tech site.
(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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
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.