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Salted salmon, or shiozake (often shortened to shake), is a staple of the Japanese breakfast table and has been since time immemorial. While salted salmon is readily available for purchase in Japanese supermarkets, it can be difficult to find in the United States. This recipe approximates the flavor and texture of Japanese salted salmon by curing the salmon and letting it rest in the refrigerator on paper towels overnight. Serve the salmon with plenty of white rice, miso soup, and pickles, as well as any other dishes you have lying around that seem appropriate.
A series where I work through a project and talk about some of my thought processes behind the design and implementation.
The Telnet BBS Guide is the largest active listing of Dial-Up and Telnet accessible Bulletin Board Systems on the Internet! We list a total of 440 BBS and related systems with brief and detailed descriptions and a downloadable text-version listing suitable for listing on your BBS or for as a download for others to view and use.
TL;DR: Open source crates like Nickel.rs and the MongoDB Rust Driver make it possible to create RESTful APIs in the Rust language. In this article, we cover how to do GET, POST, and DELETE requests on user data. Check out the repo to get the code.
In this post I am going to walk through the creation of a webservice in Rust. This is a Getting Started post that will serve as a foundation for future posts. The webservice will return a static json response to start. There are a few different options for web frameworks in Rust, but practically all of them use the underlying HTTP library called hyper. I am most familiar with nickel, so we will be using that. Once the code is complete, we will be creating a release build that is a completely static (standalone) binary. We will then be able to deploy this binary on any modern Linux distro, including Ubuntu and Alpine Linux.
Where do we begin?
Well I know that a web server basically sets up a connection to a network port and then recieves requests via text and then responds via text using the HTTP protocol. Lets define what a basic request and response looks like so that we can shoot for that when building our server. Here is a basic HTTP request and response.
Note: This blog post does not work with rustc 1.19.0 or later due to a regression in rust 1.19.0. Use the following to set rust 1.18.0 up:
$ cd /path/to/project
$ rustup install 1.18.0
$ rustup override 1.18.0
In this post we are going to hook our basic webservice up to a database. The webservice will accept a request for /orders, query the database for orders and return a json response. I will be using PostgreSQL in this example. There is a pure Rust PostresSQL driver written by Steven Fackler (sfackler) that I think is well done. That being said, the mysql crate looks well done too.
This post goes into a fair amount of detail. You can skip right to the TL;DR for the final solution.
If you have ever worked with HTTP in Rust, you have probably referred to the hyper crate. Hyper provides a safe abstraction over HTTP and offers both a client and server type. It is also the foundation for frameworks such as Iron and Nickel.
One of the coolest things about hyper is that its server can be started with anything that implements the Handler trait. There is one required method called handle and it denotes how the type which implements it should respond to an incoming connection.
Rocket is a new Rust web framework that has been released to the public late last year. It aims to provide a simple way to write and maintain fast and safe web applications.
I have been waiting for something like this for quite some time, from the way it looks it tries to be the Rails of the Rust world.
One part of that is being able to easily test your applications. After all, without tests it is almost impossible to be confident that the output conforms to what is expected, especially in an evolving codebase.
I’ve been recently wanting to try out stainless as well. Stainless is a plugin that allows you to write tests easier through a macro like syntax. Especially the before_each part of testing seemed very useful. Check out it’s project page for some example!
The Dewa Sanzan, the three sacred mountains of Dewa, are located in the middle of Yamagata Prefecture. They are Mount Gassan (1,984 meters), Mount Yudono (1,504 meters), and Mount Haguro (414 meters).
You can use PixaTool to get 8bit / Pixel style images or videos, optimize your PixelArt or game assets just adding some cool effects. Works as a PixelArt converter or PixelArt conversion tool. To keep updated: @DavitMasia
There are a several ways to run Ansible on a local system that I could find whilst searching the net. In this I’m covering three of the ones that were the most popular or the most prevalent. The first two seem great for their different contexts, and the third is not as necessary but worth considering perhaps.
Being able to do this can be very useful for setting up your own machines or workstations (dotfiles anyone?) at least in the event that you don’t want to use traditional scripting. Also when creating playbooks that involve interacting with developer API’s this is an important component - see the “more information” section at the end, for a link to an example of this.
One of the things I love about Vagrant is how it allows you to quickly create a VM that is very close to your production environment (or better yet EXACTLY like it). We're starting to work on scaling STAGES from a single server to multiple servers so I'm using Vagrant as the test bed for this process. Because of this we need to work with multiple VMs in the same Vagrant file which isn't covered by most tutorials.
If you grew up on the salty and spicy tamarind-flavored candy Pelon Pelo Rico, then you'll love these popsicles, which are inspired by the sticky, sweet treat. The biggest challenge of this recipe is procuring the ingredients, but you can get most of them online. Palm sugar adds a caramelized sweetness to the tart tamarind concentrate that flavors these pops. Just before serving they're dipped in a perky chili salt spiked with malic acid for a tongue curling bite.
Today Mexican philosophy is enjoying something of a renaissance. Emerging from the Mexican Revolution of 1910, philosophers in Mexico grappled with questions concerning Mexican identity, including the identity of Mexican philosophy, and formed a distinct philosophical tradition known as la filosofía de lo mexicano, or the philosophy of Mexicanness. At its core, this golden age of Mexican philosophy (1910-60) aimed to uncover the essential characteristics of Mexican culture in order to reaffirm them in light of a history of conquest and colonialism. Thus, the philosophy of Mexicanness represents an effort to achieve liberation from the dominant paradigms of Western thought, as well as a genuine desire for self-knowledge – what the Mexican philosopher Emilio Uranga (1921-88) referred to as ‘autognosis’.
Geekiness is getting a makeover! The geeks, weirdos, and nerds who once stood at the fringes of consumer culture now find themselves at the center. In a poignant inversion, Dungeons & Dragons—a game once renown for its supposedly dark and cultish fanbase—has become mythic. It gives all of us who have once loved it the feels along with warm nostalgic memories. As our consumer culture reorients to position games at its center, the center disciplines and norms the fraught geeky bodies which were once positioned at its margins. Tellingly, Old Spice has designed a character class for Dungeons & Dragons: “The Gentleman.” Through this class they articulate their vision of the ideal geek, a cosmopolitan Dungeons & Dragons player who not only role-plays a gentleman in the game, but also has taste in deodorant outside of it. Old Spice uses “The Gentleman” as a metaphor for the geek they seek to deodorize and transform, and prompts us to consider how deodorant is both metaphor and method for how consumer capitalism incorporates bodies and brands into the patriarchal logic of consumption.
By 400 BC, Persian engineers had mastered the technique of storing ice in the middle of summer in the desert. The ice was brought in during the winters from nearby mountains in bulk amounts, and stored in a Yakhchal, or ice-pit. These ancient refrigerators were used primarily to store ice for use in the summer, as well as for food storage, in the hot, dry desert climate of Iran. The ice was also used to chill treats for royalty during hot summer days and to make faloodeh, the traditional Persian frozen dessert.
Philosophers love to hate Ayn Rand. It’s trendy to scoff at any mention of her. One philosopher told me that: ‘No one needs to be exposed to that monster.’ Many propose that she’s not a philosopher at all and should not be taken seriously. The problem is that people are taking her seriously. In some cases, very seriously.
Like UNIX commands, shell scripts also accept arguments from the command line.
They can, therefore, run non interactively and be used with redirection and
pipelines.