rust

Introduction A few days ago, I released the abomination of a project called emojied (website, repo) to the world. It went great, I’m glad people found it funny. However, I’m not too pleased with the deployment process: from building the project to shipping it. I made heavy use of Docker to build the necessary static assets, and binary. Here’s the current setup: Dev environment PostgreSQL (handled by NixOS) rustc, openssl, cargo, etc....

So, I made an emoji URL shortener with Rust and shared it in some places including the Rust community. And oh man this is the first thing I made that got this many visitors which is pretty nice knowing that people were curious enough to try it despite them probably feeling disgusted from me bringing such a thing to existence. Repo: https://github.com/sekunho/emojied Website: https://emojied.net Some glowing ✨ reviews: “Thanks, I hate it....