After Turkey banned Discord, I had to jump through some hoops, fix my VPN, and learn a bit about how DNS works.
Some thoughts on why I started livestreaming my open-source development sessions and my future plans.
I went on a trip to Mongolia to find out the meaning behind my name.
Let's delve into the realm of open source funding along with Ratatui's journey.
Sharing my experience after giving a talk at FOSDEM 2024!
I recently realized stdout is much faster than stderr for Rust. Here are my findings after diving deep into this rabbit hole.
Here is how you can publish a Rust project with a single click of a button and automate everything.
Let's take a look at what is new in the new version of "Ratatui" and how it became the successor of tui-rs.
"Ratatui" is a Rust library for building rich terminal user interfaces. In this post, I'm sharing what's new in the latest version and also a fun way to easily create terminal user interfaces in a jiffy.
Let's experiment with the std.http module of Zig >=0.11 and create an HTTP server/client from scratch (along with some benchmarks)!
"Ratatui" came a long way since its transition from the original tui-rs crate. In this post, let's take a look at what's new in the latest version.
"rustypaste" is a self-hosted and minimal file upload/pastebin service written in Rust. In this post, I will be talking about its features and telling the story behind how I deployed it to shuttle.rs to make it publicly available for free use.
In this post, I'm sharing tips & tricks about managing/maintaining an open-source Zig project and mentioning the commonly used practices. I'm also giving a brief introduction to my first-ever Zig project "linuxwave" which led to the writing of this series.
Recently I have been interested in Alpine Linux and thought it would be nice to maintain some Rust packages in their repositories. In this post, I will share my notes/adventures on setting up a packaging environment and a tool called "alpkg" for automating this process.
Let's talk about how to detect memory leaks in Zig and avoid them by using the defer statement.
Some thoughts on projects and ego management.
runst is a dead simple notification daemon 🦡 In this post, I'm introducing the project and giving different usage examples that will improve your Linux desktop experience.
I decided to start a new blog series called "Zig Bits" where I share interesting bits of information about the Zig programming language. This series will be especially for beginners because I'm also a beginner.
Recently I packaged my project git-cliff (changelog generator written in Rust) for NPM with the help of my friend @atlj. I thought this would be an interesting topic for a blog post since it has a certain technical depth about distributing binaries and frankly it still amazes me how the whole thing works so smoothly. So let's create a simple Rust...
Let's investigate how to generate random numbers without external dependencies in Rust.
Let's talk about how to develop an open sourcerer mindset.
Some thoughts about open source and the software industry.
I don't use Spotify or any other streaming platform for listening to music. Some call it old habits, some call it needless effort, but I'm very used to downloading MP3 files over the internet and putting them in a folder on my phone then using the whatever default media player I have installed. However, for a couple of years, I have been...
Recently one of my clients requested me to maintain their Rust project. It is a web server that is built with Rocket + Diesel and running stable for a couple of years now. Like any other Rust developer would do, the first thing that I checked was the outdated dependencies via cargo-outdated. The result was close to what I expected: most of the...
sysctl is a simple and great tool for modifying the kernel parameters. It does its job very well by providing an easy-to-use interface for /proc/sys. It is maintained as a part of procps toolkit for years and it can easily be considered a legacy tool today. So why not push it to its limits and turn it into a more user-friendly and even more...
git-cliff is a highly customizable changelog generator that follows conventional commit specifications ⛰️ In this post, I'm explaining the new features in the 0.5.0 release while giving insight into the different use-cases.
gpg-tui is a TUI for managing the GnuPG keys 🔐 In this post, I'm giving a brief introduction to the project as well as describing the thought process and main development challenges behind it.
A guide for spinning up your own instance of 0x0, a no-bullshit file hosting and URL shortening service.
There's a start for everything. A new blog... New responsibilities... Maybe a new role in a Linux distribution that is for advanced users...
Introducing kmon, a Linux kernel manager and activity monitor 🐧💻