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…And We’re Back!
It has been an interesting 2 years since my last entry, and a single post will not do justice to how much has changed in my life. I just wanted to let you know dear reader that I am still around. 🙂 I am figuring out in which direction I want to take the blog.…
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Rookeries v0.17.0 – Auto-Building + Multi-Template Support
Recovering from PyCon Canada 2019, and the holidays took longer than I expected. However I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.17.0 of Rookeries to start off this new year! Version 0.17.0 includes a number of improvements to the serve command: Auto-building of the site when a file in a project changes. Opening…
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PyCon Canada 2019 Retrospective
This Tuesday marked the last day of the coding sprints, and with that PyCon Canada 2019 ended. Now that I have wrapped up my own commitments for the conference, I feel that I should post a brief retrospective on how the conference went. Overall the conference this year turned out very well! The organizers received…
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Speaking At PyCon Canada 2019 – Rust Accelerated Pythons
I am happy to announce that I will be giving a talk on Rust and Python at PyCon Canada 2019: Rust Accelerated Pythons! Want to speed up your Python applications without C or C++? Come to PyCon Canada to listen to “Rust Accelerated Pythons” by @dorianpula.#pyconca2019 #pycon #canada #python #performance #rustlang #confirmed Get your ticket…
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Rookeries v0.16.0 – Cross-Platform Support
On Wednesday night, I released version 0.16.0 of Rookeries, my developer/designer friendly static site generator! What makes this release exciting is that I added cross-platform support for macOS and FreeBSD! Also I setup an cross-platform installer, that works on all 64-bit x86 Linux distros including Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2.0. And I plan on…
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Rookeries v0.15.0 Released – Technical Preview of the Static Site Generator
It turns out that rewriting a CMS into a static site generator takes a bit of time. 😉 After 3 months of silence, I can finally announce the long awaited release of version 0.15.0 of Rookeries. This release is the first fully functional technical preview of the static site generator! You can now create, build…
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Rookeries v0.13.1 – Release + Web Assembly Experiments
This past month I’ve been trying to determine the future direction I want to take my projects: especially Rookeries. Ultimately I want to build something that lasts and is able to sustain itself financially. As someone who is still a novice in the arts of marketing, and business development, this is hard, and doing this…
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Rust + Gtk = Wow
As I’ve been experimenting with writing Rust apps, I attempted to create a small little GUI application. At first I attempted to setup everything with Qt, but C++/Qt interoperability with Rust is painful. Very, very painful. I experimented with some more radical UI frameworks such as Azul and Conrad. These have a lot of promise…
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Packaging up a Rust Binary for Linux
Prologue I should of written an update for quite some time. While I’ve been experimenting with marketing analytics, learning about data science, business development, doing DevOps with GitLab CI and various other things, I wanted to write up my learning when I had a chance to internalize everything. However what made me decide to write…
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Embedded Rust Library Experiment for Python and Web Assembly
With my ever growing list of things that I need to catch up (like wiring my home network and managing Rookeries), I needed a small fun project that I can work on. Ever since I learned enough Rust to be able to convert Rookeries, I wanted to play around with being able to speed up…