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An Abstract of a real P2P Electronic Cash System
A draft and analysis of a real P2P Electronic Cash System
We have P2P Electronic Cash Systems at home Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Sounds familiar? This is the title of the whitepaper of Bitcoin, which starts with a strong claim: A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow…
Published on May 05, 2025 — 11 min read
Why as a Software Engineer I truly believe in the Internet Computer project
Hear me out, I know it's about web3, but Internet Computer is different
Premise Whenever we talk about web3, I see a lot of skepticism and I get it; I'm skeptical about 99% of the projects out there; if you don't know me, I've written many articles against Bitcoin and other projects. But this is not an article about cryptos, i…
Published on May 03, 2025 — 8 min read
std::mem is... interesting
Let's uncover the mysterious std::mem module in Rust
A module we don't use often The std::mem module in Rust is a bit of a mystery. It's 10PM and I'm randomly reading the std library documentation and I decide to take a look to the current main modules of the library (btw they're implementing random) and I…
Published on May 02, 2025 — 11 min read
All my Dead Open Source Projects
Showcasing successful projects is mainstream, but what about the dead ones?
Introduction For every project that is successful, there are many that are not. In my case it's like 1 successful in 10 projects. So in this article I want to bring some glory to my dead projects, because afterwards some were somewhat good, but I didn't…
Published on April 30, 2025 — 9 min read
It's time to leave X.com
With two years of delay, I finally decided to leave too
Elon Musk has created a monster It’s not entirely his fault. Or at least, not just because he exists. I wasn’t one of those who fled the day Twitter was bought, because I didn’t want to make decisions solely based on the fact that Musk had bought Twitter a…
Published on April 28, 2025 — 4 min read
One does not simply write a SSH config parser (in Rust)
A journey through the land of Rust, nom and SSH config files
Do you know the feeling when you start a project and you think it will be easy, but then you realize that it is not? This is the story of the implementation of ssh2-config, a Rust library to parse SSH config files. Why did I write this? Because basically…
Published on March 30, 2025 — 11 min read
Embedding shared objects in Rust
How to embed a shared object in a Rust binary and load it at runtime
But why? So recently I've covered the topic of Vendoring C Dependencies in Rust and I've shown how to build a static library and link it to a Rust library. In the same article I've also covered how hard it was to get a static library for smbclient and so…
Published on March 28, 2025 — 11 min read
Vendoring C/C++ dependencies in Rust
How to statically bundle a C library to your project like with OpenSSL
What is vendoring about? I'm writing this post because basically I haven't found any guide about this, and for sure with this level of completeness and masochism. So what are we even talking about? Have you ever used the native-tls crate? Well it is an…
Published on March 20, 2025 — 11 min read
Extending Future in Rust
Is it even a thing?
Introduction As part of my experiments with Async Rust (cuz I'm working on something big 🤞) and while writing my last article Async Rust for Dummies a weird and sick thought came to my mind: can we actually extend Future? Extending a Trait This may not be…
Published on March 14, 2025 — 7 min read
Async Rust for Dummies
Let me show you how async Rust works under the hood
Introduction Hello, Rustaceans! I'm quite sure many of you use async Rust every day in your projects, but do you actually know how it works under the hood? In this article I'm going to show you how async Rust works, explaining the Future trait, the Pin…
Published on March 11, 2025 — 10 min read
How to setup a Bitcoin Solo Mining Pool
Today we will learn how to setup a Bitcoin Solo Mining Pool with a Raspberry Pi
About lottery mining This is an expansion of my previous article "How to get started with Bitcoin Lottery Mining". So if you're just interested in lottery mining on public pools, you can stop reading here and go to the previous article. Why solo mining on…
Published on February 21, 2025 — 6 min read
A journey into File Transfer Protocols in Rust
How basically I became a file transfer protocol expert in Rust
How it started I can for sure affirm that you've used File transfer protocols before. Let's exclude HTTP from here, because, of course it is currently used also to transfer files, but it's not bi-directional and it mostly a workaround added at a certain…
Published on January 06, 2025 — 21 min read
Why Bitcoin is not decentralized - in any way
The truth everybody tries to hide about Bitcoin decentralization
Bitcoin is decentralized, right? So yesterday I was scrolling my feed on LinkedIn, a thing I usually do once a month, and I found this: So in the image above you can see a chart showing the Bitcoin distribution over different entities. The chart is…
Published on December 19, 2024 — 6 min read
Revolutionizing the real estate market with EKOKE DAO
EKOKE DAO is going to replace the traditional bank mortgage with a sustainable and decentralized model based on installments on the blockchain
Introduction So in the last year I've been working a lot on the development of the EKOKE DAO project. I am the main software engineer of the software and I've personally designed the project architecture and implemented most of the codebase. Now we're…
Published on December 18, 2024 — 7 min read
How to make react-markdown work with Parcel?
I literally got mad with react-markdown to make it work with Parcel. Now you have a guide to make it work
Audience If you encounter an error like this while trying to render a markdown with react-markdown and you're using parcel Uncaught TypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'src') this article is…
Published on December 16, 2024 — 4 min read
The Ethereum MEV Bots are a scam
Let me clarify once for all why Ethereum MEV bots are a scam
Several months ago, I wrote this article: The Fascinating Ethereum MEV Bot Scam, where I dived deep into the technical aspects of a scam that has been circulating for years on platforms like X.com and YouTube. These scams revolve around deploying smart…
Published on November 19, 2024 — 5 min read
You don't (*always*) need async
But you can't live without it anymore
We are too much into async, but we can't go back You know what? Async Rust is great, but I also was relatively a late adopter of it, mainly because I've worked a lot on CLI tools before starting to work on server applications and web service, so I hadn't…
Published on November 18, 2024 — 11 min read
Reached the recursion limit... at build time?
A quick investigation on the recursion limit exceeded issue at build time
A bit of context So on the other day I was implementing Dokany for my Remotefs-fuse driver (coming soon btw). For those who doesn't know, Dokany provides something similiar to FUSE, but on Windows Systems, and for those who don't know what FUSE is, it is a…
Published on November 03, 2024 — 6 min read
Dyn Box Vs. Generics
What is the best approach for achieving conditional generics in Rust?
Case scenario Have you ever done something similiar? trait Greet { fn greet(&self) -> String; } struct Alice; impl Greet for Alice { fn greet(&self) -> String { "Hello".to_string() } } struct Carlo; impl Greet for Carlo { fn greet(&self)…
Published on October 28, 2024 — 6 min read
Announcing termscp 0.16.0
we have multi-host transfers baby
What's new So let's see what's new in this version 0.16 of termscp. Don't you know termscp yet? Come discover this amazing project on Github. Multi host transfers What is multi-host So currently termscp could only work with a remote in the following way |-…
Published on October 14, 2024 — 2 min read
Announcing termscp 0.15.0
with many new features
What's new So let's see what's new in this version 0.15 of termscp. Don't you know termscp yet? Come discover this amazing project on Github. Fuzzy Search The find command was a little bit rudimental; it had been introduced in one of the first versions of…
Published on October 03, 2024 — 3 min read
Hey Rustaceans: Rust freelancers do exist!
Are you tired of PHP and you want to be a 100% Rust developer? You should consider becoming a freelancer
In 2023 I've decided to resign from my job at Prima to start working as a freelancer, with a particular focus on Rust, along with a minor web development. Currently I can affirm that for 90/95% of the time I work on Rust projects as a freelancer and I've…
Published on September 04, 2024 — 5 min read
termscp 0.14 has been released
come discover many brand new cool features
It's been a long time It's been 5 months since the last release of termscp came out, so yeah let's party for this new termscp release 🎉. what's new So let's see what's new in this version 0.14 of termscp Ssh agent I've received many, many and many others…
Published on July 17, 2024 — 3 min read
Implementing a generic range parser in Rust
Well it looks easy, but it's not
Simple problems that require complex solutions A few days ago I was implementing a really simple function which would given a string representation of a range it returns a Vec of the items to include for that range. I wanted to make it generic for any kind…
Published on July 12, 2024 — 8 min read
How to configure CPU cores to be used in a Tokio application with core_affinity
Let's see how to setup the tokio runtime to use only the configured cores
There are several cases where applications are developed for extreme performance and choosing the cores to be used for an application is required. For instance we may want to reserve certain cores for some specific process, or we may want to chunk the…
Published on July 06, 2024 — 4 min read
Let me introduce you ShitAI
How AI is not improving our society and for the 90% is just a bubble
A brief resume of how AI has taken over If we went back to five years ago and you would have said "AI" in front of somebody, probably the first thought to come to minds would have been sci-fi, stupid NPCs in videogames or a bunch of ridicolous videos of…
Published on May 28, 2024 — 4 min read
The Bitcoin Utopia is a Lie
Why we all have been lied about Bitcoin
Preamble I want to be clear on some aspects before starting this article: This is not going to be a Fiat Vs. Bitcoin argumentation: I both believe both of them are equally bad There's not any alternative: I'm not here to tell you "you shouldn't use…
Published on April 12, 2024 — 15 min read
How to get started with Bitcoin Lottery Mining?
What do you need to get started? Why is it important? Can you actually earn bitcoins?
What is the Lottery Mining Have you ever heard about Lottery Mining? Lottery Mining is a low-probability mining strategy, and with low I mean VERY low, to try to mine a block on PoW blockchains, such as Bitcoin. To understand that, we first need to…
Published on February 15, 2024 — 7 min read
The fascinating Ethereum MEV Bot scam
An overview of this scam contract code
What is a MEV Bot For those who don't know: A MEV bot, short for "Maximal Extractable Value" bot, is a sophisticated program that operates in the cryptocurrency world. It scans the blockchain, which is like a digital ledger of all crypto transactions…
Published on January 31, 2024 — 13 min read
I've replaced Google Analytics with Umami
And why you should do the same
Google Analytics is mostly overrated I've used GA4 for my website in the past few months since it was released at the beginning of 2023, but to be honest, I couldn't really enjoy it, and I actually found several pain points in its usage: Poor user…
Published on October 04, 2023 — 6 min read
How to migrate from ReactJS to Gatsby
Maximize your Lighthouse score by migrating your web page to Gatsby
Why to migrate your ReactJS frontend to Gatsby Do you have a website entirely developed with React without any Server-Side rendering? And maybe you're website is mostly a static one. Well, in that case, you should really consider migrating it to Gatsby. Bu…
Published on September 21, 2023 — 15 min read
Why you should (and should not) do open-source
As an experienced open-source developer, I want to tell you why you should do open-source, with all the cons though
Preamble I started my journey into open-source almost 6 years ago and I've worked on several projects. Currently, I have 90 public repos on my GitHub and at least 5 of them have become quite successful over the years. It started as a hobby but it's now…
Published on July 17, 2023 — 10 min read
How to access an SMB share with Rust (on Windows)
A step-by-step guide to access SMB share on Windows with Rust stdlib
Introduction I’ve developed termscp, which is basically a feature-rich terminal file transfer and explorer, with support for SCP/SFTP/FTP/S3 and now also SMB. But implementing SMB wasn’t that simple. Even if I managed to get a rust interface for…
Published on May 13, 2023 — 4 min read
For a sustainable open-source community, start pointing the finger at the mirror
A reflection on how we're all part of the problem in open-source
Preamble It’s November 2020, and several NodeJs services suddenly stopped working. The panic spreads across the community, immediately someone points the finger to a possible wide-spread NPM package which is probably used by most node applications. They…
Published on March 20, 2023 — 7 min read
How Rust Nation ‘23 changed my POV on the Rust community
A retrospective of Rust Nation '23
About Rust Nation '23 Between the 16th and the 17th of February 2023, at the Brewery in London took place the Rust Nation ’23 conference, which is the first UK conference dedicated to the Rust language. Long the two days took place three level workshops…
Published on February 20, 2023 — 4 min read
Dev Horror Story #1 — An Android Nightmare
A journey into one of my most painful development: a Wear Os App
Preamble Reflecting on our Android perception Let's jump back to the 2010s, I was still a student at the high school and there was a feud between iOS and Android users. Everybody used to point out what made one of the two operating systems better than the…
Published on January 25, 2023 — 11 min read