HTTPS at home. A tale of docker + ARM cross compilation

2022-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

One morning, I realized "the obvious"</p>

the obvious</th></tr></thead>

the obvious</th></tr></thead>
https://your-service.your.net</code> is superior to http://192.168.77.56:5678</code></td></tr> </tbody></table> Instead of exposing services through IP:port</code> pairs, what about human friendly URLs behind HTTPS? GENIUS</em>!</strong></p> 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</em>. We have docker and podman. We have beefy SOCs. Linux in every flavor. We're standing on the shoulders of giants!</p> 🤡</p> Actix to Warp, a rust-y web server story 2022-01-05T00:00:00+00:00 Let's take a look on how one of my backends evolved from a beefy Actix</a> + Diesel</a> stack into a slimmer warp</a> + serde</a> 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. </p> This article is part of a series covering the evolution of LillaOst</a>.</p> Let's dig in.</p> LillaOst 2 / 2: Plotters + Fake + localStorage 2021-09-01T00:00:00+00:00 Second and final part of Rust-y parenting: WebAssembly</a>. This covers some details about generating data visualization in real time, build artificial entries for testing and a couple details about how did I approached storage.</p> </p> I'm strongly considering releasing this version of LillaOst as OpenSource. Perhaps the code can be helpful for someone starting with rust and WebAssembly. We'll see.</p> Rust-y parenting: WebAssembly 1 / 2 2021-08-25T00:00:00+00:00 This article covers the evolution of LillaOst</a> from an ad-hoc web solution using server side HTML generation into a Single-Page Application a-la React</em> based on WebAssembly. And how the introduction of Yew</a> results in a more scalable and easier to maintain project.</p> And best of all, you can test it yourself: WebAssembly LillaOst</a>. It's free</strong> and private</strong></em>. And perhaps, if you find something weird, add a nice issue</a>, pretty please?.</p> </p> Rust supported parenting 2021-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 Where we use Rust, PostgreSQL, mobile phones and a RaspberryPi3 to keep track our kid's events and we officially became data-driven parents.</p> The last 18 months have been quite intense for us. Beyond da warus</em>, the transition to full time WFH, changing jobs, we had a kid and we moved to a new apartment. When our kid was a newborn we realized how useful it was to keep track of feedings and nappy changes in a centralized manner. Taking advantage of many sleepless nights I went Rust full stack</code> and I wrote a web-app to support us. And honoring an internal joke we call it:</p> LillaOst</em>: a web app written in Rust to track your kid's daily events.</p> Building Wwise plugins with Pure data + Heavy (+ VS) 2020-06-22T00:00:00+00:00 Would you like to create a Wwise FX plugin and you have no audio programmer at hand? This approach could help you. This piece examines the niche Pure Data --> Wwise</code> toolchain developed and made public by Enzien a couple years ago. It's an smart and well crafted tool that delivers what promises.</p> Also, go out there and find an audio programmer</strong>.</p> Python packages over Subversion 2020-05-09T00:00:00+00:00 What to do when you want to distribute a python solution through pip</code> but you only have a Subversion server</a>? You can turn your code into a package and ask pi to kindly</em> use your svn server as a trusted source. This text describes a</strong> way of doing exactly that with minimal configuration and avoid bothering your busy build engineers.</p> This piece covers how to do the packaging manually. cookiecutter</a> would be another option but seems overkill for what I want to do. The only dependency of note is a web-browsable Subversion repository or any index based web server.</p> Outer Wilds, a love letter 2019-09-29T00:00:00+00:00 Maybe you heard about Outer Wilds</a> from Mobius</a>. Perhaps you saw an article</a> somewhere about it. I didn't.</em> It just popped in Game Pass</a> one day. I downloaded it believing that I was about to play the new Obsidian's title: The Outer Worlds</a>. What a surprise. From time to time a title appears that makes me remember why I love videogames.</p> Webs using react and gRPC 2019-07-28T00:00:00+00:00 During the last months I've been involved in an infrastructure project. The idea is to offer on-demand resources. Think Jenkins</a> or GitLab</a> or any render queue. In my case, users are working from different countries and time zones. This is one of the cases where building a web-based front end makes sense. The challenge: I've never built anything mid sized on web, only micro solutions that needed close to zero maintenance and were extremely short-lived. To make things more interesting the backend was offering its services through gRPC</a>.</p> Mid 2019 2019-06-30T00:00:00+00:00 DICE's summer party</h3> Following a well stablished tradition, DICE celebrated the arrival of summer organizing a great party. They rented a great place the House under the bridge</a>. Built under a tall highway bridge over the lakes with nice and informal environment.</p> Back in Sweden 2018-12-03T00:00:00+00:00 I had a handful of pretty busy months. For starters we've returned to Sweden. Back in the mother land</em>. Here you can see us mingling with the locals in the faithful Corner.</a> In any case nothing will ever eclipse the glory of the Sports Bar</em> back in Warsaw.</p> Long weekend in Krakow 2018-07-11T00:00:00+00:00 We spent a long weekend in Krakow. Such a nice city. In the station we'll found the weirdest thing:</p> First week with Godot (game engine) 2018-07-08T00:00:00+00:00 During the last 16 / 18 months I've been working primarily with Microsoft technologies on the Desktop</em>. A big lump of: WPF + OpenXML + Entity Framework. In other words: big stacks, massive code bases and tons of hours trying to understand what is going on under every:</p> Handing over, documentation 2018-06-10T00:00:00+00:00 During the last weeks I've got the request to write some documentation of the localization tech stack I've been working during the last 18-ish months. In the team I'm working with nowadays, there's a group of specialized documentation writers. Tech writers.</em></p> And when you check the docs they create, it's clear they're professional. Unified styles, neutral English, linked documents, different sorts of media including images, gifs, videos, links to code, examples in the game ... everything you can imagine. It looks and it is costly</strong>. </p> Redis as SQL Cache, take one 2018-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 I was worried about the performance of our Database Servers. Our access patterns are mostly read-only, so why not cache the data we need in an intermediate server? Redis appears to be a good solution.</p> About 1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 This is a collection of experiences gathered while shipping projects in several video game studios. My name is Carlos Bellido and I've been working in animation + video games for about 15 years now. I worked at DICE, CD Projekt Red and Mojang among others and have shipped titles such as Battlefield 1, Gwent or Vermintide 2. The pieces in this blog are no more than my opinion. Sometimes more as a self reminder than anything else. I publish them in case they might be useful for someone out there.</p> As you can see this is a static site. If you want to reach me, you have several options: </p> By mail behind jcbellido at google mail</code> </li> If you fancy Twitter</a>, send me a DM.</li> Perhaps you use LinkedIn</a>, that's another option too.</li> </ul>

https://your-service.your.net</code> is superior to http://192.168.77.56:5678</code></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Instead of exposing services through IP:port</code> pairs, what about human friendly URLs behind HTTPS? GENIUS</em>!</strong></p>
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</em>. We have docker and podman. We have beefy SOCs. Linux in every flavor. We're standing on the shoulders of giants!</p>
🤡</p>


Actix to Warp, a rust-y web server story
2022-01-05T00:00:00+00:00
Let's take a look on how one of my backends evolved from a beefy Actix</a> + Diesel</a> stack into a slimmer warp</a> + serde</a> 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. </p>
This article is part of a series covering the evolution of LillaOst</a>.</p>
Let's dig in.</p>


LillaOst 2 / 2: Plotters + Fake + localStorage
2021-09-01T00:00:00+00:00
Second and final part of Rust-y parenting: WebAssembly</a>. This covers some details about generating data visualization in real time, build artificial entries for testing and a couple details about how did I approached storage.</p>
</p>
I'm strongly considering releasing this version of LillaOst as OpenSource. Perhaps the code can be helpful for someone starting with rust and WebAssembly. We'll see.</p>


Rust-y parenting: WebAssembly 1 / 2
2021-08-25T00:00:00+00:00
This article covers the evolution of LillaOst</a> from an ad-hoc web solution using server side HTML generation into a Single-Page Application a-la React</em> based on WebAssembly. And how the introduction of Yew</a> results in a more scalable and easier to maintain project.</p>
And best of all, you can test it yourself: WebAssembly LillaOst</a>. It's free</strong> and private</strong></em>. And perhaps, if you find something weird, add a nice issue</a>, pretty please?.</p>
</p>


Rust supported parenting
2021-06-18T00:00:00+00:00
Where we use Rust, PostgreSQL, mobile phones and a RaspberryPi3 to keep track our kid's events and we officially became data-driven parents.</p>
The last 18 months have been quite intense for us. Beyond da warus</em>, the transition to full time WFH, changing jobs, we had a kid and we moved to a new apartment. When our kid was a newborn we realized how useful it was to keep track of feedings and nappy changes in a centralized manner. Taking advantage of many sleepless nights I went Rust full stack</code> and I wrote a web-app to support us. And honoring an internal joke we call it:</p>
LillaOst</em>: a web app written in Rust to track your kid's daily events.</p>


Building Wwise plugins with Pure data + Heavy (+ VS)
2020-06-22T00:00:00+00:00
Would you like to create a Wwise FX plugin and you have no audio programmer at hand? This approach could help you. This piece examines the niche Pure Data --> Wwise</code> toolchain developed and made public by Enzien a couple years ago. It's an smart and well crafted tool that delivers what promises.</p>
Also, go out there and find an audio programmer</strong>.</p>


Python packages over Subversion
2020-05-09T00:00:00+00:00
What to do when you want to distribute a python solution through pip</code> but you only have a Subversion server</a>? You can turn your code into a package and ask pi to kindly</em> use your svn server as a trusted source. This text describes a</strong> way of doing exactly that with minimal configuration and avoid bothering your busy build engineers.</p>
This piece covers how to do the packaging manually. cookiecutter</a> would be another option but seems overkill for what I want to do. The only dependency of note is a web-browsable Subversion repository or any index based web server.</p>


Outer Wilds, a love letter
2019-09-29T00:00:00+00:00
Maybe you heard about Outer Wilds</a> from Mobius</a>. Perhaps you saw an article</a> somewhere about it. I didn't.</em> It just popped in Game Pass</a> one day. I downloaded it believing that I was about to play the new Obsidian's title: The Outer Worlds</a>. What a surprise. From time to time a title appears that makes me remember why I love videogames.</p>


Webs using react and gRPC
2019-07-28T00:00:00+00:00
During the last months I've been involved in an infrastructure project. The idea is to offer on-demand resources. Think Jenkins</a> or GitLab</a> or any render queue. In my case, users are working from different countries and time zones. This is one of the cases where building a web-based front end makes sense.
The challenge: I've never built anything mid sized on web, only micro solutions that needed close to zero maintenance and were extremely short-lived. To make things more interesting the backend was offering its services through gRPC</a>.</p>


Mid 2019
2019-06-30T00:00:00+00:00
DICE's summer party</h3>
Following a well stablished tradition, DICE celebrated the arrival of summer organizing a great party. They rented a great place the House under the bridge</a>. Built under a tall highway bridge over the lakes with nice and informal environment.</p>


Back in Sweden
2018-12-03T00:00:00+00:00
I had a handful of pretty busy months. For starters we've returned to Sweden. Back in the mother land</em>. Here you can see us mingling with the locals in the faithful Corner.</a> In any case nothing will ever eclipse the glory of the Sports Bar</em> back in Warsaw.</p>


Long weekend in Krakow
2018-07-11T00:00:00+00:00
We spent a long weekend in Krakow. Such a nice city. In the station we'll found the weirdest thing:</p>


First week with Godot (game engine)
2018-07-08T00:00:00+00:00
During the last 16 / 18 months I've been working primarily with Microsoft technologies on the Desktop</em>. A big lump of: WPF + OpenXML + Entity Framework. In other words: big stacks, massive code bases and tons of hours trying to understand what is going on under every:</p>


Handing over, documentation
2018-06-10T00:00:00+00:00
During the last weeks I've got the request to write some documentation of the localization tech stack I've been working during the last 18-ish months. In the team I'm working with nowadays, there's a group of specialized documentation writers. Tech writers.</em></p>
And when you check the docs they create, it's clear they're professional. Unified styles, neutral English, linked documents, different sorts of media including images, gifs, videos, links to code, examples in the game ... everything you can imagine. It looks and it is costly</strong>. </p>


Redis as SQL Cache, take one
2018-02-18T00:00:00+00:00
I was worried about the performance of our Database Servers. Our access patterns are mostly read-only, so why not cache the data we need in an intermediate server? Redis appears to be a good solution.</p>


About
1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
This is a collection of experiences gathered while shipping projects in several video game studios. My name is Carlos Bellido and I've been working in animation + video games for about 15 years now. I worked at DICE, CD Projekt Red and Mojang among others and have shipped titles such as Battlefield 1, Gwent or Vermintide 2. The pieces in this blog are no more than my opinion. Sometimes more as a self reminder than anything else. I publish them in case they might be useful for someone out there.</p>
As you can see this is a static site. If you want to reach me, you have several options: </p>

By mail behind jcbellido at google mail</code> </li>
If you fancy Twitter</a>, send me a DM.</li>
Perhaps you use LinkedIn</a>, that's another option too.</li>
</ul>

DICE's summer party</h3>
Following a well stablished tradition, DICE celebrated the arrival of summer organizing a great party. They rented a great place the House under the bridge</a>. Built under a tall highway bridge over the lakes with nice and informal environment.</p>

jcbellido.info

tooling git: Part 1

Macros and teams

Note taking, TODOs and PKMs

HTTPS at home. A tale of docker + ARM cross compilation

Actix to Warp, a rust-y web server story

LillaOst 2 / 2: Plotters + Fake + localStorage

Rust-y parenting: WebAssembly 1 / 2

Rust supported parenting

Building Wwise plugins with Pure data + Heavy (+ VS)

Python packages over Subversion

Outer Wilds, a love letter

Webs using react and gRPC

Mid 2019

Back in Sweden

Long weekend in Krakow

First week with Godot (game engine)

Handing over, documentation

Redis as SQL Cache, take one

About

jcbellido.info

tooling git: Part 1

Macros and teams

Note taking, TODOs and PKMs

HTTPS at home. A tale of docker + ARM cross compilation

Actix to Warp, a rust-y web server story

LillaOst 2 / 2: Plotters + Fake + localStorage

Rust-y parenting: WebAssembly 1 / 2

Rust supported parenting

Building Wwise plugins with Pure data + Heavy (+ VS)

Python packages over Subversion

Outer Wilds, a love letter

Webs using react and gRPC

Mid 2019

DICE's summer party</h3> Following a well stablished tradition, DICE celebrated the arrival of summer organizing a great party. They rented a great place the House under the bridge</a>. Built under a tall highway bridge over the lakes with nice and informal environment.</p>

Back in Sweden

Long weekend in Krakow

First week with Godot (game engine)

Handing over, documentation

Redis as SQL Cache, take one

About

DICE's summer party</h3>
Following a well stablished tradition, DICE celebrated the arrival of summer organizing a great party. They rented a great place the House under the bridge</a>. Built under a tall highway bridge over the lakes with nice and informal environment.</p>