Rust

Sherlock Holmes fights Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls Got state secrets? Or maybe 50 BTC? Don’t trust your government or lawyers? And you want to make sure that if you die, your secrets are passed on? Don’t worry, I got you covered. In this post, I’ll introduce you to a simple no-bullshit dead man’s switch written in Rust. Dead Man’s Switch According to Wikipedia: A dead man’s switch is a switch that is designed to be activated or deactivated if the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death, loss of consciousness, or being bodily removed from control....

It all started when I had to accompany my mom to the hospital. It was just a routine checkup, but I had to wait for a few hours. I brought my laptop with me, since they have good WiFi and I could work on my projects. Then I realized that my mom was playing a Sudoku1 game on her phone. I couln’t help but notice that the game was full of ads and it was asking for a lot of permissions, like location and sensor data....

Warning: This post has mermaid.js enabled, so if you want to view the rendered diagrams, you’ll have to unfortunately enable JavaScript. I love to learn new things and I’m passionate about Stoic philosophy. So, when I acquired the domain stoicquotes.io1, I’ve decided to give htmx a try. What is htmx? htmx is a small JavaScript library that allows you to enhance your HTML with attributes to perform AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) without writing JavaScript2....

In programming language circles there’s a recently trend of discussing a concept called zero-cost abstractions: the ability to use higher-levels abstractions without suffering any loss of performance. Zero-cost abstractions allows you to write performant code without having to give up a single drop of convenience and expressiveness: You want for-loops? You can have it. Generics? Yeah, why not? Data structures? Sure, keep’em coming. Async operations? You bet ya! Multi-threading? Hell yes!...