Web Developer Travis McCracken on Rust for Replacing Legacy Backend Systems
Unlocking Backend Power with Rust and Go: A Web Developer’s Perspective Hello, I’m Travis McCracken, a passionate web developer fascinated
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Unlocking Backend Power with Rust and Go: A Web Developer’s Perspective Hello, I’m Travis McCracken, a passionate web developer fascinated
"Transient failures are inevitable; durable execution requires state to survive the crash." What We're Building We are constructing a re
Last month I spent three weeks doing something that sounds simple: making an HTTP client work reliably on a Raspberry Pi 4 running a custom Rust servi
Last November, my robot arm started dropping sensor frames at exactly 47ms intervals. Not randomly - exactly 47ms, like clockwork. It would read joint
I Spent 3 Months Tuning a Tokio Runtime for My Robot — Here's What No Tutorial Tells You Last November, my robot arm started dropping sensor frames a
Devlog #2. Last time I covered the hybrid PDF engine setup (Rust + PDFKit + Swift). This time: getting Apple Vision API working from Tauri for fully o
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Skip dequantization. Save 57% RAM. Get 3x faster decode. No GPU required. Every LLM framework (llama.cpp, candle, burn) does this: GGUF quantiz
Building relationship-aware AI applications today usually means duct-taping three different systems together: Neo4j for the graph, Pinecone for vector
Introduction Most applications eventually need to offload work to another process. Parse a file, send an email, trigger a report – tasks that shouldn
Our Rust file server hit a ceiling at 45K requests/sec. Switching to io_uring multiplied throughput 3.4x and cut latency 68% — but the…
ContextZip started as a fork of RTK (Reduce Toolkit). Three weeks later, it was a different tool with 1,056 tests and coverage for 102 CLI command pat
What made a two-week typesetting library possible, and what the methodology still lacks §0 — Hook Most accounts of AI-assisted developm
I shipped 13 releases of my AI agent supervisor in 14 days while the supervisor was running it. For 19 days — March 22 to April 10 — Batty manage
A TLS Certificate CLI in Rust — No OpenSSL, No Ceremony, Just a Fail-the-Build Exit Code A tiny Rust CLI that opens a TLS connection, pull
Scarab was built to allow people with no programming or statistical language experience analyze their data. It produces code snippets for those that w
The Problem If you have ever integrated a payment processor, you know the drill. You read through a PDF that was last updated in 2019, fi
A high-performance, local-first analytics dashboard for your Garmin FIT files, built with Rust and DuckDB. If you are a runner, cyclist, or data-driv
Re-running an import shouldn’t change your data. But does it? Handling repeated operations is a common problem in applications that deal with imports