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Hoverbear

hoverbear.org

A computer scientist working in open source towards a more hopeful future.

RustLinux / UnixDatabasesDistributed systems / cloud

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115 from 21 Mar 2013 to 13 Jun 2026
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2026 1

  1. Nami 💜

2025 2

  1. Custom fonts in Obsidian
  2. Folder Notes in Obsidian Publish

2023 2

  1. Instrumenting Axum projects
  2. Extending NixOS Configurations

2022 7

  1. Nix on the Steam Deck
  2. Declarative GNOME configuration with NixOS
  3. Xbox Controllers on Arch Linux
  4. Visually debugging PGX extensions
  5. Getting started with Xous and the Precursor
  6. PostgreSQL Aggregates with Rust
  7. Configurable Nix packages

2021 4

  1. Forging SQL from Rust
  2. A Flake for your Crate
  3. Using rust-bindgen in Nix
  4. Custom live media with Nix flakes

2020 3

  1. The Entanglement of Purpose & Success
  2. Finding direction, defining goals
  3. Hierarchical Structures in PostgreSQL

2019 3

  1. Getting the most of WSL
  2. Common Safety Pitfalls found by Jepsen
  3. Why Benchmarking Distributed Databases Is So Hard

2018 4

  1. Optional Arguments in Rust
  2. Ascend
  3. Learning to Tread the Dawn
  4. A New Year Dawns

2017 3

  1. The Path to Rust on the Web
  2. Setting up a Rust Development Environment
  3. The Future with Futures

2016 17

  1. Pretty State Machine Patterns in Rust
  2. An HTTPS Terminator Box
  3. Winds of Change
  4. New Roots part 5, Erecting Container Infrastructure
  5. New Roots part 4, Making it 127.0.0.1
  6. last post
  7. New Roots part 3, Services & Hardening
  8. last post
  9. New Roots part 2, On the Metal
  10. choosing a server
  11. installing a base OS on a dedicated server
  12. New Roots part 1, Choosing a Server
  13. The Menagerie of Badssl
  14. Site Redesign
  15. Gathering Our Voices 2016
  16. Arch Linux on Docker Revisited
  17. A Rust Heroku Buildpack

2015 41

  1. The Way Forward
  2. It's a Let's Encrypt Beta!
  3. Understanding Over Guesswork
  4. Photos: San Fransisco Trip
  5. The Raft-rs Rust Meetup
  6. Exciting Times
  7. Blog Changeover
  8. Trackpad Drivers for Linux on a Mac
  9. Raft Progress & Examples!
  10. Raft: Tooling & Infra Update
  11. Raft: New Crates!
  12. Reading Rust Function Signatures
  13. Collecting Results from Collections
  14. ACM papers in Pandoc
  15. Quadcopters: Motors
  16. Quadcopters: Stabilization
  17. Quadcopters: Sensors
  18. Arduino: Motor Fun!
  19. Quadcopters: Yaw
  20. Quadcopters: The Board
  21. Quadcopters: Orientation
  22. earlier article
  23. A Journey into Iterators
  24. Reflections on a Quarter Century
  25. Photography from Last Decade
  26. Raft: Status Update
  27. Gathering Our Voices 2015
  28. Learning Cap'n Proto RPC
  29. Rust, Travis, and Github Pages
  30. my earlier article
  31. Getting Acquainted with MIO
  32. On C-51
  33. Raft: A First Prototype
  34. Raft: Progress on the Log
  35. Raft update 2
  36. First look at Cap'n Proto in Rust
  37. First Look at Cap'n Proto
  38. Raft Experiences and Repo Made Public!
  39. previously
  40. Raft So Far
  41. Raft in Rust

2014 25

  1. OpenWRT QoS
  2. Vagrant Clients for OpenWRT VMs
  3. Vagrant clients for openwrt vms
  4. OpenWRT in Virtualbox
  5. last post
  6. A First Look at DACS
  7. Parsing Arguments in Rust
  8. Longest Common Increasing Sequence
  9. Init - Configuration
  10. A Ghost OpenRC Script
  11. Init - Runlevels and Targets
  12. Command Execution in Rust
  13. Option Monads in Rust
  14. Back Channel Keycloak Requests
  15. Integrating Immutant and Keycloak
  16. Integrating immutant and keycloak
  17. Deploying Immutant to Wildfly
  18. deploying immutant applications to the Wildfly application server.
  19. Arch Docker Baseimage
  20. Starting with Immutant
  21. Arch docker baseimage
  22. surface level look at Immutant
  23. Async Auto
  24. Gathering Our Voices 2014
  25. Gathering our voices 2014

2013 2

  1. Gathering Our Voices 2013
  2. Gathering our voices 2013

Undated 1

  1. Nginx.com