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Hi friends, it's been a minute since I shared an update here on this project.

Last time I posted about building a debug GUI in Rust with egui, and I enjoyed the experience so much that I decided to write a status bar for my tiling window manager using egui too!

There is a whole live coding video series which documents the creation of the bar, and I think in general the codebase has some useful tips on doing things with egui like loading custom fonts at runtime and enabling application-wide theming from colorschemes palettes like base16 and catppuccin.

Happy to answer any questions about the technology choices, the experience in general, rough edges etc.

I updated my NixOS on WSL starter template for NixOS 24.05 and created a fresh walkthrough video.

WSL is how I first got started with NixOS (and now I use it to manage more servers and machines than I can keep track of!) and I'm a big proponent of being able to quickly spin up a simple flake with a relatively flat structure where people can play around with settings to come up with something they feel comfortable applying to a bare metal machine at a later point in time.

After learning how to add an unstable overlay to nixpkgs, being able to override individual service modules from unstable was something that I still struggled with until fairly recently. Hopefully this helps someone else looking to do common-but-not-very-obvious operation.

In this video I discuss the trade-offs of building on top of unstable reverse-engineered private APIs, why I decided against it, and compare to similar software that chose to use them.

A couple of people who aren't particularly interested in the software itself told me that this was an interesting and engaging video on general programming approaches when building applications for closed-source systems, so I thought I'd share it a bit more widely here.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9143654

Apologies in advance for sharing two link posts here two days in a row. Unemployment may be driving me a little nuts... 😅

I've been working on Satounki since I got laid off last month. It's the culmination of a lot of experience building similar ad-hoc internal tooling at various places throughout my professional career.

Satounki already includes:

• AWS support
• GCP support
• Cloudflare support
• Auto-generated Terraform providers from the Rust API
• Auto-generated Typescript client wrapper from the Rust API
• Slack bot for request notifications, approvals and rejections
• CLI for requests, approvals and rejections
• Dashboard for exploring policies, requests and stats

The scope of this project is pretty big and I'm looking for contributors.

The majority of the project is written in Rust, including the generated Go and TS code. The stack is pretty simple; Actix, Diesel, SQLite, Tera etc., so if you have experience with writing web apps in Rust it should feel familiar!

Even if this is a totally new stack to you, this is a great project to develop some familiarity and experience with it, especially if you can help improve the quality of the generated Go and TS code at the same time!

Apologies in advance for sharing two link posts here two days in a row. Unemployment may be driving me a little nuts... 😅

I've been working on Satounki since I got laid off last month. It's the culmination of a lot of experience building similar ad-hoc internal tooling at various places throughout my professional career.

Satounki already includes:

• AWS support
• GCP support
• Cloudflare support
• Auto-generated Terraform providers from the Rust API
• Auto-generated Typescript client wrapper from the Rust API
• Slack bot for request notifications, approvals and rejections
• CLI for requests, approvals and rejections
• Dashboard for exploring policies, requests and stats

The scope of this project is pretty big and I'm looking for contributors.

The majority of the project is written in Rust, including the generated Go and TS code. The stack is pretty simple; Actix, Diesel, SQLite, Tera etc., so if you have experience with writing web apps in Rust it should feel familiar!

Even if this is a totally new stack to you, this is a great project to develop some familiarity and experience with it, especially if you can help improve the quality of the generated Go and TS code at the same time!

I got laid off this month and have a lot of time on my hands while I'm looking for new jobs 😅

I tried making a LinkTree but the website UI for editing is so janky and frustrating, and on top of that you have to go Premium for advanced theming, again in the janky UI...

I found this great Hugo theme called Lynx and built out my own links webpage like we did back in 90s on Geocities with Dreamweaver

Some folks on Mastodon and Twitter messaged me asking for a walkthrough because there are a few rough edges that are mostly related to changes between Hugo versions and the docs on the theme, so I made this end-to-end video going from project init to deployment on Cloudflare pages with analytics enabled

It's a pretty fun project and I think it can also be useful as a "portfolio links" page for people that are looking for jobs right now

Someone on another website asked me whether it makes sense to use agenix or sops-nix to encrypt secrets for NixOS configurations.

I realized that I hadn't seen a good overview article of the different approaches to secret handling in NixOS and when each one is appropriate to use, so I put down all of my knowledge and opinions in this post 🤞

It currently requires some extra steps to get Nitter up and running on NixOS as I found out yesterday. I documented the process for anyone else who might be looking to run their own Nitter instance between now and the trunk branch of Nitter being functional again.

I [posted this on !youshouldknow@lemmy.world yesterday](https://lemmy.world/post/1080409?scrollToComments=true) and I thought it was worth sharing here too to help people looking for specific types of communities on the Lemmyverse:

I built this for myself some years ago and used it a lot to find many interesting niche subreddits. Today I expanded it to also help myself and others find interesting niche communities across the Lemmyverse!

There is a longer explanation here from an older article, but basically:

• You give this a link that you found interesting
• It will (try to) find everywhere it has been shared on the Lemmyverse (and other websites)
• It will show you all comments from everywhere it's been shared on a single page
• You can do all the regular stuff like filter, sort, isolate etc.

One thing I find myself doing very often is hitting "toggle sources" on the top banner; this shows me everywhere the link has been shared and commented on, and if I see a community I'm not familiar with, I'll isolate the comments from that source and have a look through to see if it's a community I'd like to engage with.

There are also browser extensions and an iOS shortcut available.

You can check out an example from a post that just hit "Hot" on lemmy.world here!

I hope this helps people find interesting, engaging and fulfilling communities in this next chapter of the internet! 🚀