In this article series I want to describe how what looked like a common feature request from an assets team:

we want a button that runs "git push" in two repos, at the same time

spiraled out of proportion with great amusement and joy. How I began by failing at making libgit2 deal with LFS in any reasonable way. Introduced the rstest library into the team. Modified the default profile of nextest and brought docker based integration tests into our CI toolkit.

This piece is a follow up to Rust Macros and Teams where I wrote a test fixture from scratch. This entry combines well with shuttle's (recommended blog, btw) entry on testing. ...more

One afternoon I decided that I wanted to learn a bit about the details of HTTP based APIs and user authentication. It's something I've never done from scratch. It looked like a cool little side research. While wiring the persistence I discovered that I wanted to simplify my testing armoring.

Which led to my first non-trivial proc macro.

What in turn made look back and reflect on how teams I've work with have interacted with this particular feature of rust. What I perceive as their real costs and how, at the end, "hoomans human". ...more

I've been taking notes and scribbling TODO lists, anywhere, for years. It's never been particularly useful until recently. This is the story of how chance, podcasts and silly decisions led to a complete transformation of my noties. How all that note taking effort is actually worth it.

If you keep losing "that post-it" or your table has a stack of half used notebooks, this article could be helpful. ...more

One morning, I realized "the obvious"

Instead of exposing services through IP:port pairs, what about human friendly URLs behind HTTPS? GENIUS!

How difficult could that be? What do we need? A local DNS server? Perhaps some certification-thingy that can crunch long numbers? That has to be trivial. We have docker and podman. We have beefy SOCs. Linux in every flavor. We're standing on the shoulders of giants!

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Let's take a look on how one of my backends evolved from a beefy Actix + Diesel stack into a slimmer warp + serde combo. And, just for fun, I'll add a small anecdote about forcing an innocent Web App into synchronous fetch calls and how I ended in such a dark place.

This article is part of a series covering the evolution of LillaOst.

Let's dig in. ...more