Just side projects building web severs for fun and to learn more about rust.

I have lovingly called my new tech stack SHART

-SQLX -HTMX -ASKAMA -RUST -TOKIO

Looking at it longingly while I update another legacy C project.

I’ve mostly done hobby projects with rust.

• axum + mongodb + oauth2 (just basic rest api)

• rust-bert ( for some nlp stuff. Zero-shot, NER, etc.)

• Bevy ( I was following a tutorial for a super basic space invaders game)

I chose rust because I always like to have some kind of systems level programming language on my belt. It used to be c++. Rust had seemed very interesting so I began trying it out more and more. It’s awesome.

I mostly use it for hobby projects. For example:

• lemmy alternative - I’m using Iroh and Tauri to create a distributed lemmy-like application (mostly wanted an excuse to play with async Rust)
• Godot game projects - GDScript for most things, Rust for more intense processing - not a fan of C++, and everything else is similarly awkward, so picked Rust because I like it
• small web projects - I built a game server that did interesting things with different socket types (websockets, TCP, and UDP); wanted correctness since I’m doing a lot of async stuff; I’ve used Go for this kind of thing in the past, but I don’t like some of the footguns it has

I’d love to use it at work, but my team is mostly Python-centric and it’s working well enough for us.

Everything basically.

• Ricochet Robots solver.
• A CLI tool to add timestamps and time since last log annotations when watching logs in a terminal.
• A few random games.
• RSS to Email service.
• Making a CRDT library that embeds well in programs.
• A tool for uploading journald log files to log aggregation services.
• Some machine learning experiments.
• A tiny library to implement rate limits.