Orhun's Blog | FOSS • Linux • Programming
Taking Rust to the Cloud: Blazingly Fast File Sharing
12 minute read Published: 2023-05-17"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.
Zig Bits 0x3: Mastering project management in Zig
10 minute read Published: 2023-04-19In 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.
Setting up a packaging environment for Alpine Linux (introducing alpkg)
9 minute read Published: 2023-03-27Recently 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.
Zig Bits 0x2: Using defer to defeat memory leaks
7 minute read Published: 2023-03-21Let's talk about how to detect memory leaks in Zig and avoid them by using the defer
statement.
If you have one project and you keep bragging about it, just stop.
4 minute read Published: 2023-03-13Some thoughts on projects and ego management.
Introducing runst: Handle desktop notifications neatly on Linux!
7 minute read Published: 2023-03-05runst
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.
Zig Bits 0x1: Returning slices from functions
6 minute read Published: 2023-02-17I 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.
Packaging Rust Applications for the NPM Registry
10 minute read Published: 2023-01-24Recently 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 project, package it for NPM and fully automate the release process via GitHub Actions.
Zero-dependency random number generation in Rust
12 minute read Published: 2023-01-03Let's investigate how to generate random numbers without external dependencies in Rust.