A while back there was a thread on one of our company mailing lists about SSH quoting, and I posted a long answer to it. Since then a few people have asked me questions that caused me to reach for it, so I thought it might be helpful if I were to anonymize the original question and post my answer here.
Source: SSH quoting, an article by Colin Watson.
I’ve been having a lot of fun using Rust for writing small tools. My day to day work involves a ton of JavaScript and Rust provides a familiar feeling, so trying out Rust was an easy decision to make. But at the same time, actually doing meaningful work in Rust requires a lot of rethinking on how to structure and reason about your code. The compiler – true to its call – is merciless; yet, for some reason, it emerges quite a pleasure in tinkering your code to make it so that it – finally! – compiles.
In this post, I am documenting – albeit in a bit funny way – some thoughts in my journey so far in Rust land, coming from the viewpoint of a hardcore JavaScript enthusiast.
Source: Rust from a JavaScript perspective.
I’ve read a lot of articles recently that seem to suggest containers kinda suck. And, well, sure. They don’t necessarily make code faster, or more secure, or much easier to debug. They require complex orchestration systems, and you can’t even use them to test your code on a different OS. Gone are the days of evangelist posts about how containers are the answer to all of life’s problems; now the think pieces have titles like, “Why You Don’t Need Docker,” and “I Did This One Weird Trick and Still Hit Kubernetes’s Scaling Limits.”
But this brand of container fatigue is largely a product of how we’re using them. I’ve often seen containers referred to as “lightweight VMs,” yet it’s this focus on containers as a form of virtualization that leads to a lot of the angst. Yes, there are parallels and points of overlap, but containers are most useful when we think of them as a tool for solving a related, but different, set of problems. They are, in fact, exceptionally helpful—as long as you’re not trying to use them to mimic an entire operating system.
Source: VMs are houses, containers are tents, an article by Nina Schiff.
In the evening I finished Phaedra: Alastor 824. While the book has a lot of references to Vance's work (and even George R. R. Martin's work) I consider the book OKish; I was expecting more.