JeanG3nie's Blog
Restarting My Blog
It has been quite a while since I last posted here. I went through a period where I did all of my writing on [gemini](https://gemini.circumlunar.space/), and then in the fall of 2023 I started working towards a degree in Computer Science that took up the majority of my time (in conjunction with still working full-time).
Read More -> 2026-05-31T22:37:38ZThe Con of the Universal App Player
A while back I was been engaged in a conversation on the Fediverse that began with web browsers and then morphed into a philosophical discussion about the modern web itself. I'm not going to use this space to rehash the discussion, but rather to put down into words my feelings on what the web should be vs what it currently is, how we got here and what can be done to get back to a more sane place.
Read More -> 2025-02-12T23:00:00ZTime
No, not that Pink Floyd song off Dark Side (although that's a great song). I'm planning to smack down some Unix and computer time knowledge in today's post. Let's keep it on the practical side of things and we'll try not to stray too far into the metaphysical.
Read More -> 2024-01-29T18:00:00ZRust Criticism - from a Rustacean
I've been using Rust for a little over three years now and I absolutely love it. Rust makes good on a lot of it's promises. Rust makes highly reliable software, makes concurrency and parrallel code much easier to reason about, and will make you a better programmer even on those occasions that you write some code in another language. I could continue heaping praise.
Read More -> 2023-06-06T04:07:06ZRust Build Systems
There was a recent [post](https://coaxion.net/blog/2023/04/building-a-gstreamer-plugin-in-rust-with-meson-instead-of-cargo/) that was linked to in This Week in Rust that delves into some experiments with building Rust code via Meson rather than Cargo. Meson is, for those who don't know, the officially blessed build system for Gnome which is written and configured in Python.
Read More -> 2023-04-23T18:00:00Z