Blog Posts
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 2023-09-21 — 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 2023-07-17 — 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 2023-05-13 — 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 2023-03-20 — 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 2023-02-20 — 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 2023-01-25 — 11 min read