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Looking into the `Future`

futures-rs is the library which will hopefully become a shared foundation for everything async in Rust. However it's already become renowned for having a steep learning curve, even for experienced Rustaceans.

I think one of the best ways to get comfortable with using a library is to look at how it works internally: often API design can seem bizarre or impenetrable and it's only when you put yourself in the shoes of the library author that you can really understand why it was designed that way.

In this post I'll try to put down on "paper" my understanding of how futures work and I'll aim to do it in a visual way. I'm going to assume you're already somewhat familiar with Rust and why futures are a useful tool to have at one's disposal.

For most of this post I'll be talking about how things work today (as of September 2017). At the end I'll touch on what's being proposed next and also make a case for some of the changes I'd like to see.

If you're interested in learning more ab

Forking a single package in a monorepo

The trend of using monorepos makes a lot of things easier to manage. However, when you want to fork a single package inside a monorepo, you'll have to chose one of two options:

Fork the entire monorepo (meaning you get all those extra boilerplate you don't really care about)
Manually copying the package files into a new git repo (meaning you'll loose all git history and have a lot of work to do when there's a new version of your base package)

The good news: There's a solution for this! And it's actually built in to git.

`git subtree`

One of the lesser-known (and vaguely documented) features of git is subtree. It's intended for this purpose, working as a great alternative to the criticized submodules. There are very few resources about using this in practice, so here's a guide for this specific use case.

Mono Repository Tool Comparison

For Web Client / Front End Projects

(That Probably Use HTML, CSS, and JS)

I made a list of 20 things I might want out of a monorepo tool for a Design System to use as a basis for comparing some of the options including Lerna, Northbrook, and Rush.

⚠️ Northbrook's author says the project is pretty dead and now uses Lerna.

Qualifications Wanted

Easy client VPN for all major platforms using strongSwan IPsec

Overview

The goal here is to provide quick and easy but secure client VPN that can be configured natively without any additional software on:

Linux
iOS
Android
Windows
OSX

The repository for the assignment is public and Github does not allow the creation of private forks for public repositories.

The correct way of creating a private frok by duplicating the repo is documented here.

For this assignment the commands are:

Create a bare clone of the repository. (This is temporary and will be removed so just do it wherever.)

git clone --bare [email protected]:usi-systems/easytrace.git

Not all random values are created equal - for security-related code, you need a specific kind of random value.

A summary of this article, if you don't want to read the entire thing:

Don't use Math.random(). There are extremely few cases where Math.random() is the right answer. Don't use it, unless you've read this entire article, and determined that it's necessary for your case.
Don't use crypto.getRandomBytes directly. While it's a CSPRNG, it's easy to bias the result when 'transforming' it, such that the output becomes more predictable.
If you want to generate random tokens or API keys: Use uuid, specifically the uuid.v4() method. Avoid node-uuid - it's not the same package, and doesn't produce reliably secure random values.
If you want to generate random numbers in a range: Use random-number-csprng.

You should seriously consider reading the entire article, though - it's

Install MySQL on macOS Sierra

This procedure explains how to install MySQL using Homebrew on macOS Sierra 10.12

Install Homebrew

Installing Homebrew is effortless, open Terminal and enter :
$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Note: Homebrew will download and install Command Line Tools for Xcode 8.0 as part of the installation process.

Install MySQL

At this time of writing, Homebrew has MySQL version 5.7.15 as default formulae in its main repository :

	-- Create animated GIFs with mpv
	-- Requires ffmpeg.
	-- Adapted from http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html
	-- Usage: "g" to set start frame, "G" to set end frame, "Ctrl+g" to create.
	local msg = require 'mp.msg'

	-- Set this to the filters to pass into ffmpeg's -vf option.
	-- filters="fps=24,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos"
	filters="fps=15,scale=540:-1:flags=lanczos"

	INSTALL JAVA
	$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install default-jre

	INSTALL ELASTIC SEARCH https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup-repositories.html
	$ wget -qO - https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch \| sudo apt-key add -
	$ echo "deb https://packages.elastic.co/elasticsearch/2.x/debian stable main" \| sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elasticsearch-2.x.list
	$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elasticsearch
	$ sudo update-rc.d elasticsearch defaults 95 10
	$ sudo service elasticsearch restart
	$ sudo service elasticsearch status

	// Sources:
	// * https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/method-chaining-special-form/342
	// * https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/6679
	// * https://gist.github.com/huonw/2812cd9433dc5f0cf7f2
	// * https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2wssch/function_chaining/
	//
	// TODO:
	// * How to correctly process generic methods (e.g. collect::<Vec<_>>() ?)

	macro_rules! with {