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📰 Pakistani Newspaper Accidentally Publishes AI Prompt in Print Edition
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💾 Perkeep: Lifelong Personal Data Storage, Open and Decentralized
A thoughtful project for privacy-first technologists who value autonomy and permanence in their digital storage infrastructure.
Perkeep, formerly Camlistore, is an open-source platform for managing and archiving personal data over the long term. It provides flexible formats and protocols for storing, syncing, and sharing diverse content—ranging from small files to terabyte-scale videos—while prioritizing privacy and user control. The latest release, version 0.12 (‘Toronto’), brings enhanced stability and decentralized storage improvements.
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📦 How arch-delta Cuts 80%+ of Bandwidth in Arch Linux Upgrades
An impressive showcase of real-world Rust engineering that prioritizes performance, efficiency, and maintainability in open-source systems.
The ‘arch-delta’ project introduces a Rust-based approach to reducing Arch Linux update sizes by over 80%, using binary deltas between package versions. It explains the evolution of delta updates, the new ‘ddelta’ algorithm, caching, async server logic, and exact package reconstruction. The article also discusses challenges with async Rust and explores threading as a potential optimization path.
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🧩 Building a Resilient Recursive Descent Parser in Rust
A masterful walkthrough of practical compiler design that connects theory with hands-on Rust implementation—especially valuable for developers building language tooling or IDE integrations.
This in-depth tutorial explores how to implement a recursive descent parser in Rust as part of a broader language development series. It introduces core ideas such as error recovery, full-fidelity syntax trees, and the use of Rowan and Logos for parsing and lexing. The author highlights design trade-offs between resilience, simplicity, and maintainability while delivering a robust, error-tolerant parser for interactive use.
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