Tag: rust
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Server timing in an Axum web app
Coming from the C++ world, the process of building Chimera-md has been remarkably smooth. Despite not being an expert at Rust or web development, the breadth of well-considered libraries made available by the Cargo package manager made everything a breeze. The only part that’s at all clever, and therefore worth documenting, is my use of…
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Chimera-md updates
In the last week, I’ve spent a big chunk of time refining the Chimera-md server software and my own installation of it. I’m making progress! The most notable item is that I started working on a logo for the server, which you can see above. It needs a lot of work, but you can see…
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Installing Chimera
Recently I published the source code for my project, Chimera-md. I think it’s now ready to unveil to more folks. A key challenge there was making it easier to install. Now there’s a Docker image for running on 64-bit Linux servers. (Potentially other platforms would be valuable? But I think this is the current expectation.)…
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Presenting Chimera-md
Over the last few weeks I have been building my first Rust-based web application. There’s still some work to be done, but it is ready enough for a public debut. I am proud to present Chimera-md, a Markdown-aware web server. My intention is to build it as a Docker image to run on my NAS,…
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Rust for embedded C programmers
I got a new laptop recently, so when a friend challenged me to write a little toy encryption algorithm, I needed to set up for writing code from scratch. Now that the world has basically standardized on Visual Studio Code as the IDE of choice, the Rust gang has been able to make solid strides…
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Rustonomicon
A friend just pointed me to The Rustonomicon, a guide to the down and dirty details of working in “unsafe” Rust code. It looks fascinating, and for a systems guy like me, right up my alley. I’m looking forward to working through it.
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Learning Rust
I’ve been reading through and doing lessons from the Rust book recently. I’m really impressed with that programming language! It’s like if you were an experienced C++ compiler developer and decided to start over and craft a systems language with all the lessons learned from years of fighting with the machine. const by default. Move…
