Fair enough. I’m not a professional programmer, so I guess I won’t understand your frustration with long term maintenance of Go code. I do agree that it can be unnecessarily verbose. Writing something as simple as an http server takes a long time. Also, the dependency management sucks. It can’t seem to decide if it wants to be declarative or not.

I do like that it’s dead simple though, and that the standard library has most of the basic stuff. I’ve mostly replaced the need for Python with Go, for small CLI apps. Nowadays, I only use Python when I have to use some specific library, mostly for mathematical computing.

Yes. IIRC, the flavor that I used was MSWLogo.

I don’t think there’s an std-way of doing it, but the Rust ecosystem has this thing where people usually settle around one library. In this case, it is tokio. Afaik, most async stuff is done using tokio. What little async I’ve used, it’s been using tokio or some library like actix-web that uses tokio under the hood.

Also, side note, I never understood the idea of why golang is ugly. I think it’s fine, except for maybe the repeated if err != nil guards. Those are ugly. I wish it used additive types for error handling.

Relevant.

I’ve always preferred the functional approach to programming, so OOP never really intrigued me. That’s one of the reasons why I never liked C++ or Java, but instantly fell in love with Rust. It lets me do a lot of functional style programming, while still being somewhat practical. (I’m looking at you, Haskell.)

My first ever big boy language was C++ (after Basic, and Logo, does anyone remember that lol). I was in middle school, tried to self-learn from learncpp.com, only to realize that I had mostly learned C, with cin-cout instead of printf-scanf. So I just decided to migrate to C. Nowadays, I mostly code in Rust, Go, and Python. But my experience with C has been extremely helpful. Can’t say the same about C++ though.

My first ever big boy language was C++ (after Basic, and Logo). I was in middle school, tried to self-learn from learncpp.com, only to realize that I had mostly learned C, with cin-cout instead of printf/scanf. So I just decided to migrate to C. Nowadays, I mostly code in Rust, Go, and Python. But my experience with C has been extremely helpful. Can’t say the same about C++ though.

Thanks. Hope you like it.

Thanks. Just a small correction. The API isn’t really REST, it’s REST-ish but probably closer to JSON-RPC.

Hope you like it.

That could be, but I don’t think that it should be relied upon. The shortener itself can execute malicious code, so that kind of security is, in my opinion, essentially theatre. I’d just say that don’t click on links that you don’t trust.

This project is for own use/use with friends/family/internally in an org etc., where trust isn’t an issue. Of course, I cannot stop anyone from using it in any other way that they see fit. It can help shorten annoying long links for ease of sharing, but that’s it.

Here’s a pretty small project that’s still practically useful, at least to me.

https://github.com/SinTan1729/recipe-box-for-wikijs

Thanks for your feedback.

You just need an Immich API key, and run it from any machine from where you can reach your Immich instance. It does everything using the Immich API, so only a key with the proper permissions is needed. (I’ll add what the minimum required permissions are in the README.)

Also, if you want to do it for many users, you don’t need them to run it on individual machines/accounts. You can create multiple config files, each with that user’s key, and pass it to the script via the --config flag.

If running it for multiple users is a thing that people are interested in, I can add a way to supply an array of options in the config file, each belonging to one user.

Not sure about LaTeX, but TeX is widely considered to be almost “perfect” code.

I would highly recommend the Framework 13. I’ve had it for a bit more than a year now. The only problem I’ve faced was that the WiFi card was a bit unstable in EndeavourOS. But that was fixed by replacing wpa_supplicant with iwd. (I hear that it was only an issue for the AMD version, and that it’s fixed now.) Battery life is fine for me. I limit charging at 70%, and that usually lasts me the whole day.

I love how Linux friendly it is. On my last laptop (an HP), it was pretty much impossible to upgrade the BIOS from inside Linux. Now it’s trivial. There’s also good support available when you face issues. (Both from Framework, and community members.) The hardware is pretty nice. I actually like how it’s MacBook-like, because it just looks nice in most settings. It’s portable too, I really hope they don’t make it bulkier like some folks here seem to demand.

There IS one of these for everything, eh?

Chhoto URL - It’s a simple URL shortener written in Rust.

I’ve written more programs, some of which are more useful in my daily life than this (e.g. movie-rename) but this is one that many seem to find interesting, and that’s kinda cool I guess. Also, I’m proud of some of my Lean code, but that stuff’s not published.