Game Hacking Dojo — Software Engineering

Why I compile everything to WASM instead of writing JavaScript

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a class of project decision that feels radical when you make it and mundane six months later. Committing to Rust-only browser code was one of those for me.

The problem with JavaScript

I don’t dislike JavaScript the language. I dislike what comes with it: an ecosystem that moves faster than any human can track, a module system that has been redesigned four times, and a type system that requires a separate transpilation step to be usable. For a personal site, none of that overhead is acceptable.

SortVis

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

An interactive sorting algorithm visualiser compiled to WebAssembly from Rust — no JavaScript logic required.

Ferrite

Sun, 10 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A minimal, zero-copy HTTP/1.1 server written in async Rust using Tokio and io_uring.

Raft-KV

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A distributed key-value store implementing the Raft consensus algorithm from scratch in Rust, with linearisable reads and persistent log replication.

About

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Who I am

I’m a systems software engineer with a focus on correctness, performance, and minimal dependencies. I write mostly Rust, run Linux everywhere, and host my own infrastructure on a small cluster of Raspberry Pi 4s behind a Cloudflare Tunnel.

I am allergic to JavaScript. All interactive components on this site are compiled from Rust to WebAssembly.

What I work on

Most of my work falls into a few recurring themes:

Vault

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A self-hosted secrets manager with envelope encryption, audit logging, and a Rust CLI client.