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Setting up Rust development environment using VSCode on a Mac
Completion and highlighting While on Linux VSCode with the Rust plugin seems to work more or less out of the box, on a Mac I needed to spend some time configuring it. First things first though, let's start by installing Rust version manager, rustup. ... read more →
Adding graphs to posts in Nikola
Update as of April 2019 This blog no longer runs on Nikola so the embedded examples do not work anymore. The method described in the post is still valid though. I really like to teach, try to explain things in a simple manner. There is often no bett ... read more →
Upload your site to Netlify using their incremental deployment API
I've recently switched to a setup where I do all my builds for this blog on Travis. While doing so I needed to migrate away from using Netlify's internal build infrastructure. This resulted in a quick python script that allows you to upload arbitrary ... read more →
Running host programs in isolation inside one-off Docker containers
I am quite bad at remembering how to launch docker to have everything set up correctly. Hence the following - a script that launches any commandline specified in its arguments inside a new docker container. Current directory is mounted inside the con ... read more →
Using ad hoc Docker volumes on SELinux systems
I've recently tried running some quick Docker commands using host's directory as a volume: docker run -i -t -v `pwd`:/mnt debian:jessie bash -c "ls -hal /mnt" ls: cannot open directory /mnt: Permission denied I use Fedora as my main OS, wh ... read more →
RustFest - organization was the best. Also rhymes.
I went to RustFest and it was amazing ! It was clearly the best conference organizational-wise I've been to so far. It made me think of what I really liked there. What made it so awesome and welcomy ? To me this was a large number of small things jus ... read more →
The best terminal emulator for Windows 10's Bash or how to run X applications
update as of 03/2017 As this article is by far the most popular on my site right now I feel that an update is necessary, as the landscape evolved a bit since the original publish date. Conemu started to support Bash on Windows properly now and this i ... read more →
Don't throw away. Fix.
Try fixing your things. It's already broken - no need to sweat. You might learn something. Level 2 - push for things to be easily fixable. It's good for you. It's good for the planet. read more →
Conferences you did not know existed and now you know you just need to go to
Go to conferences. It's good for you. Ever wondered why to go to conferences ? Is it worth it, especially if you do not feel confident that the conference is on something that would be in an immediate realm of your day-to-day interests ? Just go ! Yo ... read more →
Productive New Year's Eve
It turns out that the last day of the year can be quite productive. I've managed to sneak in a PCB layout for the input measurement and protection board for my sunpowered. Got it ordered, can't wait to test it ! I got carried away with via stitching ... read more →