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The question was simple enough: How good of an image editor can you build with $20 worth of Claude Code Pro subscription? The answer, after one month and roughly that budget, is: surprisingly good, occasionally wrong about performance, and …
Sorting a terabyte of data in the late 1990s meant serious hardware, serious planning, and probably a serious budget approval process. Today you can do it on a workstation before lunch. I wanted to know how fast, so I wrote rustbucket to …
Exploring storage savings of blk-archive across AI-style datasets, compared against tar + gzip.
Introduction & background information NOTE: This content is from an internal talk I gave, thus the reason it may read like a presentation So what is bcachefs? bcachefs is a next-generation copy-on-write (COW) filesystem (FS) that aims …
The ability to write a C shared library in rust has been around for some time and there is quite a bit of information about the subject available. Some examples: Exposing C and Rust APIs: some thoughts from librsvg Creating C/C++ APIs in …
I used to like Python. Like others I enjoy the productivity it offers and the vast and plentiful libraries that exist. However, over time that fondness has turned to loathing. The thing that should have been apparent to me long ago is that …
Ideally it would be great if a DBUS server side library provided Fully implements the functionality needed for common interfaces (Properties, ObjectManager, Introspectable) in a sane and easy way and doesn’t require you to manually …
Introduction Stratis (which includes stratisd as well as stratis-cli), provides ZFS/Btrfs-style features by integrating layers of existing technology: Linux’s devicemapper subsystem, and the XFS filesystem. The stratisd daemon manages …
Debugging gobject reference leaks can be difficult, very difficult according to the official documentation. If you google this subject you will find numerous hits. A tool called RefDbg was created to address this specific need. It however …
Continuous integration (CI) support in github is a very useful addition. Not only can you utilize existing services like Travis CI, you can utilize the github API and roll your own, which is exactly what we did for libStorageMgmt. …