• Wrapping SQLite's UTF-8 strings using Rust's FFI October 5, 2023
  Wrapping raw pointers to UTF-8 encoded text from SQLite allows offloading a lot of safety checks to the Rust compiler, but requires a lot of detailed insights into the workings of both SQLite and memory allocation.
• Safely opening (and closing) an SQLite database September 9, 2023
  Wrapping a C library in Rust beyond the pure FFI interface is straightforward, but has a surprising amounts of details to consider.
• About things September 8, 2023
  A short summary of what these pages are about.
• Owning Your Invariants June 13, 2023
  Don’t just leverage the type checker for correctness of business logic, the borrow checker can help, too.
• Quick static site deployment May 6, 2023
  A combination of hugo and nix can be used to have an automated site deployment for free in under 40 lines of code.
• Tracing for the impatient March 14, 2021
  Tracing is a flexible improvement over the traditional log crate, with great features and an async footgun.
• Kubernetes and nsswitch.conf in nix containers January 15, 2021
  Those who do not know about nsswitch.conf are going to have a bad time.
• Nix based continuous integration August 2, 2020
  Keep build logic out of your CI configuration to be able run it on your devs machines.
• Containerless development environments July 28, 2020
  nix-shell actually delivers stable build environments in a much better way than a development Docker container can.
• The second best build system July 24, 2020
  Your Makefile is likely a glorified shell script - create a much simpler build.sh instead!