Rust really loves strict typing, it makes the language efficient, fast and free of a noisy garbage collector. It’s great. Unfortunately though, dealing with the real world is - as usual - less well-defined. Enter the messy world of sensors and electronics!

This is a sentence I heard a lot in the past, but not so much recently. Could JavaScript have gotten better? Or is it just the frameworks that iron out the bad stuff? Or the different flavors that came out over the years? In any case there certainly is some bad stuff left and for me - as a backend developer - the garbage collection seems to be pretty odd and while TypeScript is a fun language you still have to deal with it a lot.

With the 1.0 release of my Rust driver for CrateDB, I decided to share how the driver works as well as document some of the decisions around its creation. Check out the repository for the driver on Github.

The Raspberry Pi is a wonderful device and since its hardware is quite bored being a music server alone, I decided that it’s time to bake more functionality into it. Coincidently, my NAS’ hard disks are beginning to fail and since I am in need of a hobby, I decided to give my Raspberry Pi a chance. From a specification perspective, my NAS is quite satisfying featuring 2 3.5" hard disk bays, RAID, USB3.0, Gigabit ethernet, a web interface, and a package manager. However…

This being my first post and all: Welcome! I hope that you find some interesting content here, if not - I am open for suggestions. Let’s start off with some more tech-related stuff: