Linux Creating Linux swap files Following on from my last post I've been migrating more services into EC2 from my current hosting provider. Another task I found myself needing to do was creating swap files for my EC2 instances. This was another task for which I had completely forgotten
Linux Auto-renew Let's Encrypt certs with systemd timers Recently I've been migrating some of my sites to a new hosting platform. During this process I found myself re-creating configuration for various things, and realizing that I don't quite remember all the steps I took to configure it in the first place. One
What happened to 2016/2017 My last post on this blog was in August 2016. That's almost 18 months ago as of this writing. I wanted to post an update and explain why I've basically disappeared from from this site and my open source projects. In September 2016 myself
Rust Rust compiler walk-through - Introduction This post is the introduction to a new series which aims to give a walk-through of the Rust compiler, starting from the initial entry point and going right the way through the compilation process. The goal is to give a decent understanding of what
Iota Syntax highlighting in Iota Iota editing itself with syntax-highlighting enabledFor the past few months I've been thinking about syntax-highlighting in Iota. I did a good bit of research into how this is acheived in other editors to see how I should go about implementing it for myself. Regex
Git Discovering git-cherry Today I discovered the git cherry command which lets you view the commits from one branch which have not been picked into another. Using it is pretty simple: git checkout my-branch git cherry <upstream> <head> Where <upstream> is
Organization Iota: Organization and getting things done On and off for the past few years I've been working on a text editor called iota. When I set out I had two goals, the first was to learn how text editors worked, and the other was to build an editor that I