~jelford

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blog

Most recently, Working with signals in Rust - some things that signal handlers can't handle:

Signals are an essential part of process life-cycle on linux, but working with them is ... fraught - probably because it's not obvious that special care is needed. In this post, we'll look at what a signal is and just one of the challenging aspects: restrictions on signal handlers.

... the rest is here

open source

Some things I've tried to help out with:

• rustup The official installer for rust-lang
• firejail Application sandboxing on linux with namespaces, seccomp, and capabilities
• networkzero Easy networking for in Python for educational settings

A few projects of my own...

• activesoup A headless pure-python web scraping tool that mixes the convenience of requests with the querying power of beautifulsoup.
• keyn A browser extension for browsing the web with the power of your keyboard
• fixl Another browser extension, to help with looking up FIX specs.
• rumour A re-implementation of the serf's gossip protocol, written in async rust
• squirrel Automatic backups and queryable history while you work
• ferret Custom shebang for simpler python scripts that need more than the standard library