https://blog.veeso.dev A blog about Rust, Gleam, and open source software development en-us This is an article about how I restructured a monolithic IC canister framework into a runtime-agnostic WASM database engine.A few months ago I announced ic-dbms, a Rust framework for building database https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/from-ic-dbms-to-wasm-dbms/ Christian Visintin 2026-03-02T11:00:00Z rust-projects https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/from-ic-dbms-to-wasm-dbms/ If you are reading this, you are looking at a blog that runs zero React, zero GraphQL, and zero Node.js. This blog is now entirely powered by Gleam, Lustre, and a little static site generator I built https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/this-blog-was-made-with-gleam/ Christian Visintin 2026-02-25T18:00:00Z gleam https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/this-blog-was-made-with-gleam/ IntroductionFor the last year or so, I’ve started using AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to help me with my software engineering tasks.For most of the time, these tools have been a great help. https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/the-role-of-the-software-engineer-in-the-age-of-ai/ Christian Visintin 2026-02-01T19:10:00Z software-engineering https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/the-role-of-the-software-engineer-in-the-age-of-ai/ Since I saw the Lego Gameboy set, I wanted to make it functional since I have good knowledge of programming and little knowledge of electronics.Also I've been a big fan of Gameboys since I was a https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/i-transformed-my-lego-gameboy-into-a-working-gameboy/ Christian Visintin 2026-01-06T15:10:00Z tinkering https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/i-transformed-my-lego-gameboy-into-a-working-gameboy/ What if I told you that this code:use candid::CandidType; use ic_dbms_api::prelude::{Text, Uint32}; use ic_dbms_canister::prelude::{DbmsCanister, Table}; use serde::Deserialize; #[derive(Debug, Table, https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/announcing-ic-dbms-0-1-0/ Christian Visintin 2025-12-13T18:07:00Z open-source https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/announcing-ic-dbms-0-1-0/ This is the 50th blog post on this blog! 🎉 Thank you everyone for reading my blog in the past 3 years!How I almost fucked up my code because of clippyOn the other day, I was implementi https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/should-we-get-rid-of-clippy-manual-try-fold/ Christian Visintin 2025-12-06T13:05:00Z rust-internals https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/should-we-get-rid-of-clippy-manual-try-fold/ IntroductionThis article is part of a series where I document the development of ic-dbms-canister, a framework for building database management systems (DBMS) on the Internet Computer (IC). In the https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/cooking-ic-dbms-canister-dbms-layer/ Christian Visintin 2025-12-05T23:00:00Z rust-projects https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/cooking-ic-dbms-canister-dbms-layer/ Introduction𰻝𰻝汉子 BiangBiang Hanzi is an iOS and Android application that allows users to convert Hanzi (Chinese characters) to Pinyin and translate Chinese text into any language. It supports both https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/instantly-convert-hanzi-to-pinyin-with-biangbiang-hanzi/ Christian Visintin 2025-11-22T14:10:00Z open-source https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/instantly-convert-hanzi-to-pinyin-with-biangbiang-hanzi/ IntroductionThis article is part of a series where I document the development of ic-dbms-canister, a framework for building database management systems (DBMS) on the Internet Computer (IC). In the https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/cooking-ic-dbms-canister-memory-management/ Christian Visintin 2025-11-22T12:10:00Z rust-projects https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/cooking-ic-dbms-canister-memory-management/ PremiseEven if the project is made to run on Internet Computer, which is related to web3 and cryptos, this article is not about investments, tokens or NFTs. It is not even about Internet Computer https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/cooking-ic-dbms-canister-the-journey-begins/ Christian Visintin 2025-11-13T12:00:00Z rust-projects https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/cooking-ic-dbms-canister-the-journey-begins/ IntroductionI think there's something every developer working in an environment where PR must be reviewed has experienced: PRs taking too long to be reviewed.Every company has its own process for https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/prs-taking-too-long-to-be-reviewed/ Christian Visintin 2025-08-14T11:15:00Z software-engineering https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/prs-taking-too-long-to-be-reviewed/ IntroductionThis article came from a question I saw on Reddit, and it is a good one to ask, even if it seems dumb at first.So we all know that Rust has a co https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/can-you-move-a-copy-in-rust/ Christian Visintin 2025-07-28T18:10:00Z rust-internals https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/can-you-move-a-copy-in-rust/ A few days ago, I had a memory issue in one of my Rust applications.The application was huge, and for some reason the memory kept growing with hundreds of gigabytes of memory allocated, but I https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/leaktracer-a-rust-allocator-to-trace-memory-allocations/ Christian Visintin 2025-06-26T18:00:00Z rust-internals https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/leaktracer-a-rust-allocator-to-trace-memory-allocations/ So on the other day I was making a custom implementation of the io module for maybe-fut and I had to implement the BufReader struct, which has this definition: https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/dont-you-dare-to-sort-your-struct-fields-when-using-sized/ Christian Visintin 2025-06-18T17:40:00Z rust-internals https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/dont-you-dare-to-sort-your-struct-fields-when-using-sized/ So if you don't know, I also develop on the Solana Validator (but please don't leave, it's about Rust and not blockchain things 😓) mostly mods for Solana RPC nodes, and recently a https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/rust-on-a-diet/ Christian Visintin 2025-06-07T18:30:00Z rust-internals https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/rust-on-a-diet/ A premise about my work experienceI have been working as a Software Engineer for over 8 years.In my career I have worked in these sectors and for these amounts of time:Embedded systems on Passenger https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/web3-the-new-scarlet-letter-on-your-resume/ Christian Visintin 2025-05-21T11:45:00Z software-engineering https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/web3-the-new-scarlet-letter-on-your-resume/ We have P2P Electronic Cash Systems at homeBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash SystemSounds familiar? This is the title of the whitepaper of Bitcoin, which starts with a strong cla https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/an-abstract-of-a-real-p2p-electronic-cash-system/ Christian Visintin 2025-05-05T11:30:00Z blockchain https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/an-abstract-of-a-real-p2p-electronic-cash-system/ PremiseWhenever 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/why-as-a-software-engineer-i-truly-believe-in-the-internet-computer-project/ Christian Visintin 2025-05-03T18:00:00Z blockchain https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/why-as-a-software-engineer-i-truly-believe-in-the-internet-computer-project/ A module we don't use oftenThe 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/std-mem-is-interesting/ Christian Visintin 2025-05-02T11:00:00Z rust-internals https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/std-mem-is-interesting/ IntroductionFor 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, https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/all-my-dead-open-source-projects/ Christian Visintin 2025-04-30T12:00:00Z software-engineering https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/all-my-dead-open-source-projects/ Elon Musk has created a monsterIt’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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/it-s-time-to-leave-x-com/ Christian Visintin 2025-04-28T12:00:00Z software-engineering https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/it-s-time-to-leave-x-com/ 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/one-does-not-simply-write-a-ssh-config-parser-in-rust/ Christian Visintin 2025-03-30T17:30:00Z rust-tutorials https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/one-does-not-simply-write-a-ssh-config-parser-in-rust/ But why?So recently I've covered the topic of https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/embedding-shared-objects-in-rust/ Christian Visintin 2025-03-28T16:00:00Z rust-tutorials https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/embedding-shared-objects-in-rust/ 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/vendoring-c-cpp-dependencies-in-rust/ Christian Visintin 2025-03-20T17:00:00Z rust-tutorials https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/vendoring-c-cpp-dependencies-in-rust/ IntroductionAs 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/extending-future-in-rust/ Christian Visintin 2025-03-14T18:00:00Z rust-internals https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/extending-future-in-rust/ IntroductionHello, 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/async-rust-for-dummies/ Christian Visintin 2025-03-11T18:00:00Z rust-tutorials https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/async-rust-for-dummies/ About lottery miningThis is an expansion of my previous article "How to get started with Bitcoin Lottery Mining".So if you're just interested i https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/how-to-setup-a-bitcoin-solo-mining-pool/ Christian Visintin 2025-02-21T15:15:00Z blockchain https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/how-to-setup-a-bitcoin-solo-mining-pool/ How it startedI 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/a-journey-into-file-transfer-protocols-in-rust/ Christian Visintin 2025-01-06T13:15:00Z rust-tutorials https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/a-journey-into-file-transfer-protocols-in-rust/ 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: https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/why-bitcoin-is-not-decentralized--in-any-way/ Christian Visintin 2024-12-19T15:00:00Z blockchain https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/why-bitcoin-is-not-decentralized--in-any-way/ IntroductionSo 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/revolutioninzing-the-real-estate-market-with-ekoke-dao/ Christian Visintin 2024-12-18T13:00:00Z blockchain https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/revolutioninzing-the-real-estate-market-with-ekoke-dao/ AudienceIf you encounter an error like this while trying to render a markdown with react-markdown and you're using parcelUncaught TypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object Cannot read https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/how-to-make-react--markdown-work-with-parcel/ Christian Visintin 2024-12-16T10:45:00Z web-development https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/how-to-make-react--markdown-work-with-parcel/ 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/ethereum-mev-bots-are-a-scam/ Christian Visintin 2024-11-19T19:00:00Z blockchain https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/ethereum-mev-bots-are-a-scam/ We are too much into async, but we can't go backYou 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/you-dont-always-need-async/ Christian Visintin 2024-11-18T15:00:00Z rust-internals https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/you-dont-always-need-async/ A bit of contextSo on the other day I was implementing Dokany for my Remotefs-fuse driver (coming soon btw). For those who d https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/reached-the-recursion-limit-at-build-time/ Christian Visintin 2024-11-03T17:00:00Z rust-internals https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/reached-the-recursion-limit-at-build-time/ Case scenarioHave you ever done something similiar?trait Greet { fn greet(&self) -> String; } struct Alice; impl Greet for Alice { fn greet(&self) -> String { https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/dyn-box-vs-generics-in-rust/ Christian Visintin 2024-10-28T17:00:00Z rust-internals https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/dyn-box-vs-generics-in-rust/ What's newSo let's see what's new in this version 0.16 of termscp.Don't you know termscp yet? Come discover this https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/announcing-termscp-016/ Christian Visintin 2024-10-14T18:15:00Z open-source https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/announcing-termscp-016/ What's newSo let's see what's new in this version 0.15 of termscp.Don't you know termscp yet? Come discover this https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/announcing-termscp-015/ Christian Visintin 2024-10-03T18:15:00Z open-source https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/announcing-termscp-015/ 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/hey-rustaceans-rust-freelancers-do-exist/ Christian Visintin 2024-09-04T12:00:00Z software-engineering https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/hey-rustaceans-rust-freelancers-do-exist/ It's been a long timeIt's been 5 months since the last release of termscp came out, so yeah let's party for this new termscp release 🎉. https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/termscp-014-released/ Christian Visintin 2024-07-17T17:30:00Z open-source https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/termscp-014-released/ Simple problems that require complex solutionsA 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/implementing-a-generic-range-parser-in-rust/ Christian Visintin 2024-07-12T16:00:00Z rust-tutorials https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/implementing-a-generic-range-parser-in-rust/ 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/how-to-configure-cpu-cores-to-be-used-on-a-tokio-with-core--affinity/ Christian Visintin 2024-07-06T15:00:00Z rust-tutorials https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/how-to-configure-cpu-cores-to-be-used-on-a-tokio-with-core--affinity/ A brief resume of how AI has taken overIf 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/let-me-introduce-you-shit-ai/ Christian Visintin 2024-05-28T15:30:00Z open-source https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/let-me-introduce-you-shit-ai/ PreambleI 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 badThere's not any https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/the-bitcoin-utopia-is-a-lie/ Christian Visintin 2024-04-12T12:30:00Z blockchain https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/the-bitcoin-utopia-is-a-lie/ What is the Lottery MiningHave 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/how-to-get-started-with-bitcoin-lottery-mining/ Christian Visintin 2024-02-15T15:30:00Z blockchain https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/how-to-get-started-with-bitcoin-lottery-mining/ What is a MEV BotFor 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 bloc https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/the-fascinating-ethereum-mev-bot-scam/ Christian Visintin 2024-01-31T12:40:00Z blockchain https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/the-fascinating-ethereum-mev-bot-scam/ Google Analytics is mostly overratedI'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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/ive-replaced-google-analytics-with-umami/ Christian Visintin 2023-10-04T17:00:00Z web-development https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/ive-replaced-google-analytics-with-umami/ Why to migrate your ReactJS frontend to GatsbyDo 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/how-to-migrate-from-reactjs-to-gatsby/ Christian Visintin 2023-09-21T12:00:00Z web-development https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/how-to-migrate-from-reactjs-to-gatsby/ PreambleI 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/why-you-should-and-should-not-do-open-source/ Christian Visintin 2023-07-17T12:00:00Z software-engineering https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/why-you-should-and-should-not-do-open-source/ IntroductionI’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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/how-to-access-an-smb-share-with-rust-on-windows/ Christian Visintin 2023-05-13T00:00:00Z rust-tutorials https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/how-to-access-an-smb-share-with-rust-on-windows/ PreambleIt’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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/for-a-sustainable-open-source-community-start-pointing-the-finger-at-the-mirror/ Christian Visintin 2023-03-20T00:00:00Z software-engineering https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/for-a-sustainable-open-source-community-start-pointing-the-finger-at-the-mirror/ About Rust Nation '23Between 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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/how-rust-nation-23-changed-my-pov-on-the-rust-community/ Christian Visintin 2023-02-20T00:00:00Z software-engineering https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/how-rust-nation-23-changed-my-pov-on-the-rust-community/ PreambleReflecting on our Android perceptionLet'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 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/dev-horror-story-1-an-android-nightmare/ Christian Visintin 2023-01-25T00:00:00Z software-engineering https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/dev-horror-story-1-an-android-nightmare/