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komorebi v0.1.29 - new status bar built in Rust with egui (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 month ago by LGUG2Z@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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Hi friends, it's been a minute since I shared an update here on this project.

Last time I posted about building a debug GUI in Rust with egui, and I enjoyed the experience so much that I decided to write a status bar for my tiling window manager using egui too!

There is a whole live coding video series which documents the creation of the bar, and I think in general the codebase has some useful tips on doing things with egui like loading custom fonts at runtime and enabling application-wide theming from colorschemes palettes like base16 and catppuccin.

Happy to answer any questions about the technology choices, the experience in general, rough edges etc.

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how do you fix an issue you can't reproduce? a case study (www.youtube.com)

submitted 4 months ago by LGUG2Z@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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I'm sure most of us have had to deal with issues reported by end users that we ourselves aren't able to reproduce

This video is an extended case study going through my thought process as I tried to track down and fix a mysterious performance regression which impacted a small subset of end users

I look at the impact of acquiring mutex locks across different threads, identifying hot paths by attaching to running processes, using state snapshot comparisons to avoid triggering hot paths unnecessarily, the memory implications of bounded vs unbounded channels, and much more

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NixOS 24.05 WSL Starter Template Walkthrough (www.youtube.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by LGUG2Z@lemmy.world to c/nix@programming.dev

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I updated my NixOS on WSL starter template for NixOS 24.05 and created a fresh walkthrough video.

WSL is how I first got started with NixOS (and now I use it to manage more servers and machines than I can keep track of!) and I'm a big proponent of being able to quickly spin up a simple flake with a relatively flat structure where people can play around with settings to come up with something they feel comfortable applying to a bare metal machine at a later point in time.

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Building a GUI for my Tiling Window Manager in Pure Rust with egui and eframe (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 months ago by LGUG2Z@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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Hi friends, I develop and maintain the komorebi tiling window manager and have been posting live coding videos documenting its development for just over a year now.

I'm starting a new mini series on building a visual debugging gui tool to aid development on komorebi and especially to help with understanding some of the more esoteric edge cases and the interactions between the twm, user-defined rules and WinEvents.

I'll be building this from scratch using egui/eframe, so if you're interested in what building a non-trivial real-world immediate-mode gui and integrating with other (Rust, in this case) processes via IPC looks like, you'll probably get something out of this series.

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Open Source Financial Sponsorship Breakdown for 2023 (lgug2z.com)

submitted 7 months ago by LGUG2Z@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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Sharing some numbers on what people can realistically expect with GitHub Sponsors on a moderately popular project without any external / VC / corporate backing.

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Selectively Using Service Modules from NixOS Unstable (lgug2z.com)

submitted 8 months ago by LGUG2Z@lemmy.world to c/nixos@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13113247

After learning how to add an unstable overlay to nixpkgs, being able to override individual service modules from unstable was something that I still struggled with until fairly recently. Hopefully this helps someone else looking to do common-but-not-very-obvious operation.

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Selectively Using Service Modules from NixOS Unstable (lgug2z.com)

submitted 8 months ago by LGUG2Z@lemmy.world to c/nix@programming.dev

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After learning how to add an unstable overlay to nixpkgs, being able to override individual service modules from unstable was something that I still struggled with until fairly recently. Hopefully this helps someone else looking to do common-but-not-very-obvious operation.

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Why Komorebi Can't Use Windows Virtual Desktops (www.youtube.com)

submitted 8 months ago by LGUG2Z@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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In this video I discuss the trade-offs of building on top of unstable reverse-engineered private APIs, why I decided against it, and compare to similar software that chose to use them.

A couple of people who aren't particularly interested in the software itself told me that this was an interesting and engaging video on general programming approaches when building applications for closed-source systems, so I thought I'd share it a bit more widely here.

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Building and Privately Caching x86 and aarch64 NixOS Systems with Github Actions (lgug2z.com)

submitted 9 months ago by LGUG2Z@lemmy.world to c/nix@programming.dev

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Satounki - Temporary elevated access management as a self-hosted service (github.com)

submitted 11 months ago by LGUG2Z@lemmy.world to c/devops@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9143654

Apologies in advance for sharing two link posts here two days in a row. Unemployment may be driving me a little nuts... 😅

I've been working on Satounki since I got laid off last month. It's the culmination of a lot of experience building similar ad-hoc internal tooling at various places throughout my professional career.

Satounki already includes:

AWS support

GCP support

Cloudflare support

Auto-generated Terraform providers from the Rust API

Auto-generated Typescript client wrapper from the Rust API

Slack bot for request notifications, approvals and rejections

CLI for requests, approvals and rejections

Dashboard for exploring policies, requests and stats

The scope of this project is pretty big and I'm looking for contributors.

The majority of the project is written in Rust, including the generated Go and TS code. The stack is pretty simple; Actix, Diesel, SQLite, Tera etc., so if you have experience with writing web apps in Rust it should feel familiar!

Even if this is a totally new stack to you, this is a great project to develop some familiarity and experience with it, especially if you can help improve the quality of the generated Go and TS code at the same time!

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Satounki - Temporary elevated access management as a self-hosted service (github.com)

submitted 11 months ago by LGUG2Z@lemmy.world to c/rust@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9143654

Apologies in advance for sharing two link posts here two days in a row. Unemployment may be driving me a little nuts... 😅

I've been working on Satounki since I got laid off last month. It's the culmination of a lot of experience building similar ad-hoc internal tooling at various places throughout my professional career.

Satounki already includes:

AWS support

GCP support

Cloudflare support

Auto-generated Terraform providers from the Rust API

Auto-generated Typescript client wrapper from the Rust API

Slack bot for request notifications, approvals and rejections

CLI for requests, approvals and rejections

Dashboard for exploring policies, requests and stats

The scope of this project is pretty big and I'm looking for contributors.

The majority of the project is written in Rust, including the generated Go and TS code. The stack is pretty simple; Actix, Diesel, SQLite, Tera etc., so if you have experience with writing web apps in Rust it should feel familiar!

Even if this is a totally new stack to you, this is a great project to develop some familiarity and experience with it, especially if you can help improve the quality of the generated Go and TS code at the same time!

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Satounki - Temporary elevated access management as a self-hosted service (github.com)

submitted 11 months ago by LGUG2Z@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

4 comments fedilink

Apologies in advance for sharing two link posts here two days in a row. Unemployment may be driving me a little nuts... 😅

I've been working on Satounki since I got laid off last month. It's the culmination of a lot of experience building similar ad-hoc internal tooling at various places throughout my professional career.

Satounki already includes:

AWS support
GCP support
Cloudflare support
Auto-generated Terraform providers from the Rust API
Auto-generated Typescript client wrapper from the Rust API
Slack bot for request notifications, approvals and rejections
CLI for requests, approvals and rejections
Dashboard for exploring policies, requests and stats

The scope of this project is pretty big and I'm looking for contributors.

The majority of the project is written in Rust, including the generated Go and TS code. The stack is pretty simple; Actix, Diesel, SQLite, Tera etc., so if you have experience with writing web apps in Rust it should feel familiar!

Even if this is a totally new stack to you, this is a great project to develop some familiarity and experience with it, especially if you can help improve the quality of the generated Go and TS code at the same time!

Win32 Window Focus Prevention Deep Dive by LGUG2Z in c/programming@programming.dev

[-] LGUG2Z@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Thanks! Turns out I have a lot more time on my hands to be found around the internet since I got laid off last month 😅

Any recommendations for a career change? by LGUG2Z in c/programming@programming.dev

[-] LGUG2Z@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I wish I had more advice, but I'm in a similar boat, just got laid off earlier this month after being with the same company from Series A in 2018 all the way until today. I'm sending job applications and trying to get interviews, but it's hard to get past the resume screening stage, even with 8+ years of experience.

I've mainly been working in DevOps/SRE/Platform Infrastructure, but I am also an accomplished developer with a pretty thick portfolio of widely used open source projects, though it doesn't seem to matter.

There are so many applicants for every single job now that it feels hopeless, and of course every single opening wants you to waste your time on multiple asinine LeetCode gotcha questions.

If I lived somewhere with a public health system I'd love to take what money I have saved up and open a traditional middle eastern bakery, but I need to do something that will bring health coverage for myself and my family. Who knows, I might just end up working at Trader Joe's. 🤷‍♀

Using Rust, Chrome and NixOS to Take Headless Screenshots for Social Sharing by LGUG2Z in c/programming@programming.dev

[-] LGUG2Z@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's a stack that really pays off in the long run for solo projects. After a long week of work the last thing I want to do is go tracking down runtime errors (undefined is not a function, my old friend) or messing around with Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters. It also doesn't hurt that once you throw away the costly deployment abstractions, the operating expenses turn out to be a lot cheaper.

Ditching Docker for Local Development by LGUG2Z in c/programming@programming.dev

[-] LGUG2Z@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Highly recommended viewing if you'd like to learn more about the limits of reproducibility in the Docker ecosystem.

Ditching Docker for Local Development by LGUG2Z in c/programming@programming.dev

[-] LGUG2Z@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I understood your point, and while there are situations where it can be optional, in a context and scale of hundreds of developers, who mostly don't have any real docker knowledge, and who work almost exclusively on macOS, let alone enough to set up and maintain alternatives to Docker Desktop, the only practical option becomes to pay the licensing fees to enable the path of least resistance.

Ditching Docker for Local Development by LGUG2Z in c/programming@programming.dev

[-] LGUG2Z@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Lot's of (incorrect) assumptions here and generally a very poorly worded post that doesn't make any attempt to engage in good faith. These are the reasons for what I believe is my very first down-vote of a comment on Lemmy.

Ditching Docker for Local Development by LGUG2Z in c/programming@programming.dev

[-] LGUG2Z@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

NixOS on WSL2 is actually my development environment of choice these days! (With my tiling window manager komorebi, of course! 😀)

Ditching Docker for Local Development by LGUG2Z in c/programming@programming.dev

[-] LGUG2Z@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I believe this is the Docker Desktop license pricing.

On an individual scale and even some smaller startup scales, things are a little bit different (you qualify for the free tier, everyone you work with is able to debug off-the-beaten-path Docker errors, knowledge about fixes is quick and easy to disseminate, etc.), but the context of this article and the thread on Mastodon that spawned it was a "unicorn" company with an engineering org comprised of hundreds of developers.

Ditching Docker for Local Development by LGUG2Z in c/programming@programming.dev

[-] LGUG2Z@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Hi!

First I'd like to clarify that I'm not "anti-container/Docker". 😅

There is a lot of discussion on this article (with my comments!) going on over at Tildes. I don't wanna copy-paste everything from there, but I'll share the first main response I gave to someone who had very similar feedback to kick-start some discussion on those points here as well:

Some high level points on the "why":

Reproducibility: Docker builds are not reproducible, and especially in a company with more than a handful of developers, it's nice not to have to worry about a docker build command in the on-boarding docs failing inexplicably (from the POV of the regular joe developer) from one day to the next
Cost: Docker licenses for most companies now cost $9/user/month (minimum of 5 seats required) - this is very steep for something that doesn't guarantee reproducibility and has poor performance to boot (see below)
Performance: Docker performance on macOS (and Windows), especially storage mount performance remains poor; this is even more acutely felt when working with languages like Node where the dependencies are file-count heavy. Sure, you could just issue everyone Linux laptops, but these days hiring is hard enough without shooting yourself in the foot by not providing a recent MBP to new devs by default

I think it's also worth drawing a line between containers as a local development tool and containers as a deployment artifact, as the above points don't really apply to the latter.

Smoothing out the peaks and valleys by LGUG2Z in c/experienced_devs@programming.dev

[-] LGUG2Z@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

A few years ago, back when I still gave a damn (and probably during my most productive quarter in my entire professional career), somebody complained that my language was too curt on Slack, and I was a denied a 20k performance bonus as a result. It was pretty easy to not care after that.

Smoothing out the peaks and valleys by LGUG2Z in c/experienced_devs@programming.dev

[-] LGUG2Z@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

More and more lulls with more and more years of experience. I hit the gym more, socialize more, cook more extravagantly, take walks more often etc. The most important thing was to train myself to not give a damn when people were making stupid decisions at work that were going to bite them N months down the line during those lulls.

c/tilingwindowmanagers - A place to talk about and share media related to tiling window managers! by LGUG2Z in c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

[-] LGUG2Z@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's a piece of software which automatically arranges open windows on your desktop according to different algorithms and layouts, and allows you to switch focus them and move them around in the layout by using keyboard shortcuts. One you get in the flow, you very rarely have to use the mouse to move windows around, maximize them, minimize them, resize them etc.

If you've ever seen a post on !unixporn@lemmy.ml or similar places, the vast majority of them are using tiling window managers to get that look of clean organized windows on the desktop!