Infrastructure

An interactive explainer on the physics behind GPS, covering how satellite signals, timing, and relativity all come together to pinpoint your location. A beautifully crafted piece that makes complex physics accessible and engaging.

via Nic Wise (@fastchicken@mastodon.nz): @timbray@cosocial.ca Finally found time to write up how I use Plex + Plexamp. Thanks for asking (the world) and prompting me to actually write the words

A practical guide to self-hosting your music library with Plex and PlexAmp as an alternative to Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming services. Resonates with anyone who has accumulated a large MP3 collection over the years and wants to maintain control over music they’ve actually paid for.

via Rust Weekly 🦀 (@rust_discussions@mastodon.social): Announcing Continuous Memory Profiling for Rust

Polar Signals, in collaboration with Materialize, has released rust-jemalloc-pprof, a library that exports jemalloc’s heap profiling capabilities in pprof format. This makes it much easier to debug memory leaks and understand heap usage in Rust applications, either as one-off investigations or as continuous profiling over time.

via Mikah Sargent (@mikahsargent@mastodon.social): 🤯 Blown away by this video from @film_girl showing the racks that house the tech for GitHub’s new M1 macOS Runners. Was not expecting to see the Minis deconstructed!

GitHub announces new custom M1 macOS runners for GitHub Actions, discussed in a sneak peek video with Christina Warren. This is a welcome addition for teams that need ARM-native macOS CI/CD pipelines.

via The Changelog podcast: From Docker to Dagger

Sam Ruby on Fly.io Blog: Multiple Logs for Resiliency

via Tim Bray: Apparently this just decloaked:

via Rust Weekly: Announcing mailfred 0.1, a library to offer services through the email infrastructure processing emails as requests & responses.