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CGlue 0.3 Future and Beyond

Aug. 1, 2024, 3:43 p.m. by auri

CGlue 0.3 now supports Future, Stream, and Sink in version 0.3! They're not only safe, but also, relatively fast. All this took around a year to build, and I may now explain the keys to the async.

April 22, 2024, 5:46 p.m. by auri

I recently read 2 of Eckhart Tolle's books - "The Power of Now" and "A New Earth". Without a doubt, some of the most important books I've read in a really long time. Instead of trying to explain them through content, though, let me lead you through a hypothetical scenario.

Dec. 7, 2023, 5 p.m. by auri

I'm extremely proud to announce the first release of mfio, mfio-rt, and mfio-netfs! This is the most flexible Rust I/O framework, period. Let's get into it, but before that, warning: this is going to be a dense post, so if you want a higher level overview, check out the release video :)

May 22, 2023, 9:12 p.m. by auri

In my previous post I made a fairly inaccurate attempt at describing one of the primary problems plaguing current async ecosystem and an idea of solving it. Redditors criticized me, and rightfully so - the post was written in one go without giving it time to rest and the solution was not optimal. So I thought about it more, and I think I am on to something.

May 9, 2023, 10:02 p.m. by auri

If you've done any async programming in Rust, you will have encountered the problem, where you can't run tokio::spawn, because the future cannot be sent between threads safely. This is a tale about why this problem exists, how it could be solved for good, and why it's not trivial to do without breaking existing code.

Jan. 15, 2023, 5:42 p.m. by auri

I've always been a strong proponent of dynamic linking, and last month a new Rust proposal dropped - interoperable_abi. It sparked discussions, plans forward, and my excitement was immeasurable. Then, one member said something that got me thinking. And after much thinking, I don't think ABI is what we need today. What we need is type information. Let me explain.

Dec. 26, 2022, 10:22 a.m. by auri

"Mr. h33p, what kind of substance are you on? All I want is 2 simple read/write functions!", said everyone in the room. Well, if you just let me get into the weeds, I'll tell you why that's not enough, and why we can do much, much better.

July 17, 2022, 5:01 p.m. by auri

Edward Snowden's autobiography is a story about young man's journey leading up to arguably one of the most important events of the second decade, a story about rejection of evil, a story about rejection of being complicit, a story about standing up, even though all the cards are stacked up against one.

June 11, 2022, 9:12 a.m. by auri

If you've been following me, you probably noticed I have gone silent. I wish I was able to say it was a massive project that is done now and I'm ready to share it with the world, no, I simply didn't do anything. Until April I had my dissertation, and after that, I've been simply not living up to my standards. It's fun and all to float around, but one day you will have to pick yourself up and do everything you have put off, which for me, is far too many things. Why don't we simply start today?...

Jan. 28, 2022, 10:55 p.m. by auri

Today I went for a casual walk around campus and for the next 2 hours started to think about memflow's CLI/daemon. We're essentially rewriting it for 0.2 with a much more flexible design. The question is how exactly the architecture is going to look like. Join me for some thoughts regarding that.

Nov. 26, 2021, 2:37 a.m. by auri

Beautiful things happen, when you let the type system do the work for you. CGlue has reached a very important milestone, making Rust to C/C++ interop not just possible, but also seamless!

Nov. 8, 2021, 10:12 a.m. by auri

miniCTF was AFNOM's little CTF to introduce new members what capture the flag is. Now, I'm not a new member, but participated anyways, because what else am I going to do from 3PM to 5PM on a Wednesday? To make things harder, I went for the final web challenge - Perceval.

July 23, 2021, 1:24 p.m. by auri

Hello again, CGlue has had several updates already with 0.1.2 being the latest. Let's cover it! And also, I think it's a good a time to start talking about the road ahead.

May 27, 2021, 11:51 p.m. by auri

A few days ago I introduced a seamless ABI safety solution, and there has been rapid progress on it. It's very close to being feature complete, but there are some final important kinks that need working out.

May 24, 2021, 9:31 a.m. by auri

Rust does not have ABI safety by default. Meaning, any Rust (non extern "C") code that is called on your dynamically loaded libraries relies on an explicitly unstable ABI. It will work fine if the library is compiled with the same compiler version, but could break if they differ the slightest bit. But wait, it's 2021, how is it still an unsolved problem?

Feb. 28, 2021, 8:45 p.m. by auri

pwnEd 2 by University of Edinburgh was one of the first proper CTFs I have attended, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Simulation was by far one of the most fun challenges.

Aug. 30, 2020, 12:58 p.m. by auri

This will be a short and sweet one. With the second year of University approaching so fast it is probably a good idea to think about what to expect.

Aug. 30, 2020, 12:57 p.m. by auri

In summary, it has been quite a ride, no, but for real, first year of University was amazing! This post goes into detail about that.

Aug. 28, 2020, 1:35 p.m. by auri

I have been programming a lot, and I was meaning to make a website to showcase some of my work, but I never got around to do so. But, due to how atoms in the Universe aligned, it, well, not Universe, our University tasked us with creating a blog site. So, here I am to walk you through its design.

Aug. 19, 2020, 10:28 a.m. by auri

As an application, or a library develops, chances are you will start to think about adding support for different usecases. This blog delves into how I would approach that by example, implementing support for more architectures in memflow memory introspection toolkit.