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Like a million before me I fell into the most classic of blunders: Overestimating my ability to do interesting work while also writing about it. Letting the time since my last post grow and grow and grow until it became an akward burden. In my experience the only fix is to say “ lol, lmao ” and post through it, so here we are. Lately Articles In an effort to try and make dev log…
If you have a Rust app that uses the openssl crate to generate certificates (or certificate signing requests), and one day out of the blue those certs. or CSRs are being rejected for malformed subject alternative names (SANs) with confusing errors like: certificate is valid for example.com, www.example.com, not example.com or: Cannot issue for "example.com, dns:www.example.com": Domain name…
About There are many resources for writing Nix flakes for Rust projects but in my experience they can often be too simple. They may focus on projects without complex native code dependencies, or only offer a single development environment with a fixed Rust toolchain version. I think Nix thrives at addressing these kinds of complications but it’s hard to find examples in the space between…
Spring has sprung and it’s a potent reminder of how much I value contrast. Moaning about the winter is a well established Canadian past-time but I’ve realized I need four distinct seasons to feel right. For me it’s easier to appreciate the small details that the change in seasons provides when the differences are so stark. Lately Recently I’ve been having fun contrasting…
Since February I’ve been working on regaining my focus. It feels like something that used to come naturally but now takes deliberate action. With focus, I’m returning more to habits and systems of work I felt stronger about before the influence of the broader tech industry led me down a road of making concessions. I won’t pretend I don’t have to modulate self-doubt, but at…
Winter has blessed my area with ample snow. January is a classic prompt for evaluating one’s shit and I can get a lot of thinking done in the pockets of silence a snowy forest provides. Lately I’m thinking a lot about trusting myself. I’m ready to take some bigger swings even if a few might miss. Lately I’ve dabbled with the Rust programming language a few times over the…
Living somewhere with a winter that’s extreme even by Canadian standards has taught me a lot about how far reaching the cold can be. Its influence spans everything from the consistency of the snow you walk across to the way you perceive light. Last year I saw my first Sun dog , and this year I was lucky enough to catch the moon with a 22° halo . Lately Protobuf Text Format Encoding…
I hear federation is cool now. If you’re reading this, start a blog. It’s the hip old new way to have decentralized shitposts. Lately I’m doubling down on writing the world’s most niche technology blog and bringing you another adventure from the intersection of MUD Clients and NixPkgs . Thrills abound, what can I say. Mudlet This time around I was looking into the Mudlet…
Its been hard to marshal energy to get up to much. The combination of changing weather, a birthday, and Thanksgiving in short succession makes me a bit of a slug. Rather than get too hung up on it I’ve been embracing 🎃 Spooky October vibes 🎃 and watching a lot of horror movies ( some good, most bad ). Lately Despite being a slug I did find some time for a small project that…
Starting I love reading people writing about what they’re working on. I hate writing about what I’m working on. Who would want to read that? Incongruence be damned. Fall Summer is over. That’s always a bitter pill to swallow but the colours make up for it in the short term. Great mushroom hunting too. Lately Here’s some stuff I’ve been up to. LDMud Nixpkgs In ~summer…