Beware of sync option in mount
By default mount is using async option, which means that write operations do not wait for final confirmation from the device – they are stored in disc cache and writes are done latter, optimized by...
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Linux Desktop for 2017 and on
As Canonical has announced the end of Unity desktop I thought it’s time to look again around at Linux desktops. In past years I have been using mainly Gnome 2 (or Mate recently), XFCE, Cinnamon and...
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What Is This Weird File Name in My Samba Share?
In IT there are big things and there are small things. Some small things can be pretty annoying and they seem to stay here forever. One of these annoying little things is difference between...
View ArticleSplitting Large Audio Books
I’m big fan of audio books. During past years I’ve been using setup described in this article (libresonic server, android client, audio encoded with opus codec) for audio books listening. It works...
View ArticleMyBookshelf2 Beta2
MyBookshelf2 – ebooks management and sharing solution moved to next version – Beta 2 – apart of few small fixes, the main change is an internal revamp to make it compatible with latest Asexor and thus...
View ArticleAsynchronous Again – Rewriting ptunnel in Rust
Asynchronous programing model is quite popular for I/0 intensive tasks – it enables you effective use of resources, while maintaining agility of and assuring scalability of the application. I myself...
View ArticleCI/CD Environment for A Smaller Project
Advantages of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are obvious even for small projects with few contributors and are easily achievable with help of free cloud tools – like for...
View ArticleThe Different Approach to A Parser – Parser Combinators
Some time ago I’ve looked into building parser for simple logical language used by imap_detach Tool. I used there parsimonious module which uses PEG grammars. Recently I learned about another parsing...
View ArticleAudioserve Audiobooks Server – Stupidly Simple or Simply Stupid?
If you read some of my previous articles you know that I’m quite fond of audiobooks. In past I was looking for good media server, which supports audiobooks and ended with airsonic (a subsonic...
View ArticleFrom Russia with Love – Kotlin Language
One may think that we have already more then enough programming languages. But community thinks differently and new languages keeps popping up and thanks for that, because some bring cool innovative...
View ArticleStupidly Complex or Completely Stupid – Android Development
As part of audioserve project I decided to create an Android client. To make this exercise more interesting I decided to write it in Kotlin language (see previous article about Kotlin language). This...
View Articleaudioserve Android Client Early Beta Is Available
So finally there is something. I’m using it myself now to listen to audiobooks and it have almost all functionality I wanted it to have. It might be still bit unstable and few things is not well...
View ArticleHow much better is the thread pool?
Is thread pool worth to consider for my project? I was looking for some opinions around the net and as usual they differ and most common wisdom is it matters. Generally it’s “known” that creating...
View ArticleFrom Ignorance to Enlightenment – Playing with Tokio
I have been playing with tokio already in couple of small projects (ptunnel-rust and indirectly (via hyper) in audioserve), but I cannot say that I’m proficient. Also tokio is very much moving target...
View ArticleFearless Upgrades with Typed Languages
One of many advantages of statically typed programing languages like Rust or Java is their resilience to changes in dependent libraries, usually caused by new library versions with modified interface –...
View ArticleTiny Etude in Generics
Although Rust is mostly noted for it’s memory safety and thus most prominent feature is borrow checker, it has also very decent type system, which was inspired by modern functional languages like OCAML...
View ArticleFuture Never Sleeps
Recently I’ve been reading this book: “Network Programming with Rust” by Abhishek Chanda. I found this book bit problematic. It’s just collection of many unrelated examples (often taken from crates...
View ArticleSqlite3 – How Slow Is Write?
Sqlite3 is lightweight relational database, mainly focused on smaller local systems. Being used in Android it’s now probably most spread relational database in world with billions of instances running....
View ArticleAudioserve Update
Some updates have been done on both audioserve server (now in version 0.6.0) and Android client (now in version 0.7.0): on server collection directory structure can be cached in memory for fast search...
View ArticleNext Audioserve Version
As I’m using audioserve for almost a year, I’m becoming quite keen about it – it’s exactly what I wanted – simple, lightweight and works as I needed. With it listening to audiobooks is just a simple...
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