Rust as a platform for IoT

December 12, 2021

40 Minutes

technical, rust, IoT, kth

This essay presents a summary of the Rust ecosystem aiming at applications in IoT and an analysis of its current suitability for new projects at the time of writing in mid-2021.

Hooking up with Git

December 2, 2021

10 Minutes

nix, git, code, github

Git hooks can be useful, tracking and managing them with Nix makes removes the barrier of using them.

One too many shell

December 1, 2021

20 Minutes

nix, guide, flakes, newnixshellguide

Nix 2.4+ introduces replacements for commonly known nix commands. The `nix-shell` replacements cause some confusion which this post aims to solve.

The Rust Build System

April 30, 2021

13 Minutes

technical, rust, devops, kth

This essay aims to present a functional description of the Rust build system that exemplifies outstanding efforts of open source CI/CD

Building with Nix Flakes for, eh .. reasons!

January 1, 2021

26 Minutes

internal, technical, nix, haskell

Nix Flakes are the long awaited addition coming with the next major release of Nix. What are Flakes, what do they offer, how can you use them now and should you consider migrating?

Building a reproducible blog with Nix

April 10, 2020

16 Minutes

internal, technical, nix, haskell

Nix is a purely functional package manager that allows isolated development environments and builds. This blog uses it to provide a development environment and to build the blog in a GitHub Action

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