Setting up Rust Lang on Alpine is relatively straight-forward. You get the dependencies that includes clang and lld from the apk repositories and curl to download and install the Rust Toolchain. 1. Getting the dependencies We will need a C compiler… Read More »Installing Rust Lang on Alpine (With just LLVM Dependencies)
In my previous post I showed how you can build your own WSL distro from Alpine root image. If you followed along, and then proceded to use the resulting distro, you would have been very frusted….I apoligize. The first attempt at installing… Read More »Installing Go Lang on Alpine (Without GCC or LLVM Dependencies)
Setting up Clang was probably the most involved process in this series. Ironically, creating a C programming environment without any GNU utilities is a lot harder than setting up a plain Go Lang environment setup or even Rust. But that’s my goal… Read More »LLVM/Clang on Alpine Linux
Recently, I got quite frustrated with the bloated WSL Distros that are shipped by Canonical and Debian Team. It comes preinstalled with Systemd, a horribly old version of Python and for some reason insists that vim depends on sound drivers… Read More »Installing Alpine Linux on WSL 2
2020 is the Year of Structure for me. This means organizing, planning and filing things in a way that frees up my mind to be actually productive. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but it needs to be portable, and… Read More »Manage Multiple GitHub Accounts from a single shell
I like to use Windows 10 for gaming and other purposes. I like using Linux/BSDs in the cloud, however they don’t interoperate very well. Until such time comes when I can buy a MacBook Pro (the only UNIX that works… Read More »WSL v2 Setup for Windows 10
One of my frustrations with technology, and life in general, is how difficult it is to keep track of things. Recently, I decided to sign up for Netlify and build a simple static site for myself. Upon signing up, I… Read More »Web APIs and Integrations
A project that I was recently working on was asked me to automate the creation of a LAMP stack and WordPress. Having worked with a ton of Cloud services, my mind immediately snapped onto tools like Ansible, Cloud-Init, etc. All… Read More »Back to the Basics
I created this website to write and think about mathematics, physics, computation and the interface between these three disciplines. I am an engineer by trade, but lately I am getting more and more worried about the direction towards which this… Read More »Putting Science back in Computer Science
I started my new job, a few months ago as a server operator. This has been a really positive change in my life. The firm I work at is a VPS provider and my job has all the things that… Read More »Servers and whatnot