A while back I created a new GitHub Action for releasing Rust projects which produce binary releases (as opposed to crates). This works nicely with my Rust Cross Action to let me automate away most of the toil from releasing new versions of my Rust CLI tools like precious, ubi, and omegasort. Using it is pretty simple and can be done in one step: 1 2 3 4 5 - name: Publish artifacts and release uses: houseabsolute/actions-rust-release@v0 with: executable-name: ubi target: x86_64-unknown-linux-musl For a longer example, see how I use this action and my Rust Cross Action to build, test, and release ubi.

My team at MongoDB is three Senior Engineers. For these positions you can be 100% remote in the US or Canada or you can choose to work from one our offices. Our schedule is based around our NYC office on the east coast, so if you’re on the west coast your hours would need to account for that. My team primarily works on MongoDB’s Cluster-to-Cluster Sync product. It’s an interesting and challenging product to work on.

I’ve been living in Taiwan since December 20 of last year and I’ll return on June 29. There’s a lot of things I enjoy about living here, and one of them is that the content on Netflix here is quite different. In particular, there’s a lot of anime available that’s only available through Crunchyroll1 in the US. I also have had more free time here, so I’ve ended up watching a lot of anime, both with my wife and by myself.

This is a post on finding vegan food in Taiwan, with some context on the history of vegetarian food here. It’s not a list of vegan restaurants. Instead, it’s a meta-post about navigating Taiwan as a vegan. About Me I’ve been vegan since late 1996, so over 27 years at the time of this post (December, 2023). I’m currently starting my eleventh visit to Taiwan since 2000, and I’ve spent about 9 months here total across those visits.

My universal binary installer tool, ubi, has to deal with a lot of “interesting” decisions when it comes to how people name their releases on GitHub. So in the interests of making the world of binary executable releases more machine-readable and a little less weird1, here are my recommendations on naming your release files. The TLDR is: Either use an extension or don’t include periods in the filename. Use well-known operating system and CPU architecture names as part of the filename.

When I started at MongoDB in May of 2022 I was the fourth person on my team. Since then, we’ve hired six more engineers, bringing us to a total of 10 people. That’s a big team! That’s why we are hiring for a new Team Lead, so that we can split into two teams. I’m not sure which team I’ll end up on, but this is your chance to maybe be my new boss!

Last Saturday my wife and I saw Sleep No More in New York City. It’s a mostly silent film noir style adaptation of Macbeth as a play/dance piece. There are no seats. Instead you follow the performers around the space, which is four floors of a converted hotel. You can walk through nearly all of the sets in full, and you can more or less go where you want. You don’t even have to follow any performers at all if you don’t want to.

The highlight of all this is my brand new GitHub Action for cross-compiling Rust projects. The rest of the post is about why and how I wrote it. I was recently working on the CI setup for my ubi project with a couple goals. First, I wanted to stop using unmaintained actions from the actions-rs organization. Second, I wanted to add many more release targets for different platforms and architectures1.

This is probably obvious to anyone paying attention to my CPAN releases over the past few years, but in case it’s not, I wanted to state this clearly. All of my Perl modules are in maintenance mode. Why? I no longer do any professional work with Perl, and I haven’t done any since 2017 or so. All of my most enjoyable personal projects are in Rust these days. Also, I’m a bit burned out on the Perl community.

I just released version 0.4.0 of precious, my code quality meta-tool for configuring a collection of linters and tidiers for a project. The headline change for this release is that command invocation configuration has changed, with the old run_mode and chdir keys being deprecated. Don’t worry, you can safely upgrade to this release, as the old config keys still work and do not cause precious to emit any warning yet1.