How to talk to your QMK-based keyboard using Rust

Recently I’ve played around a lot with mechanical keyboards. I really like them and I love the programmability of the ones that are supported by the QMK firmware. In this post I’ll try to show how to talk to your QMK based keyboard with the Rust programming language.

Depreciation in Personal Finance with Hledger

We all know the spikes in our expenses when we buy a new washing machine or a new gadget. Accounting has a method to flatten these spikes over a longer period of time. This method is called “Depreciation”. Businesses depreciate long-term assets because they want to even out the tax implications and to have better looking income statements. In personal finance I haven’t come across depreciation, yet. But I think it is a fitting concept, that goes hand in hand with budgeting.

Tracking Investments in lots with Hledger

Tracking investments with plaintext accounting tools like Hledger or other ledgerlikes isn‘t new. There’s a bunch of guides (Track Investments (Hledger docs), Buying and Selling Stock (ledger docs)). I want to present a very simple method I discovered that makes tracking lots easy. I need this because in Germany capital gains on stocks or cryptos are based in the first in first out method. The standard way Standard transactions when buying shares of an ETF might look like these:

Crates you should know for Rust Scripting

For now this is just an overview for reference. I’ll write a blog post showing each crate and link them here.

Why Rust's error handling is awesome

This post is about the process of transforming something you would write as a one-off script in Python (or any other scripting language) into a library including error handling.

The Aeropress Iced Stubby Recipe

• Method: Aeropress Inverted
• Dosage: 25g for 250mL (100g/L)
• Grind: fine
• Water Temp: 96°C/205°F
• Blooming: 50mL
• Total Time: 1:30

The Aeropress Stubby Recipe

• Method: Aeropress Inverted
• Dosage: 25g for 250mL (100g/L)
• Grind: fine
• Water Temp: 96°C/205°F
• Blooming: 50mL
• Total Time: 1:30

Announcing tmpshare v1.0

I’m happy to announce version 1.0 of tmpshare a self-hosted file sharing tool.

tmpshare is beeing developed in live coding sessions on twitch.tv/zoranzaric. The streams are archived on YouTube.

The most basic example of tmpshare’s usage looks like this:

Hello World

Hello World, this is the first post.