Arash Sal Moslehian

Reliable Desktop Linux Installation with Btrfs Snapshots, Snapper, and Rollbacks on Ubuntu (openSUSE style)

Creating a rock solid desktop Ubuntu (or Debian) system with btrfs, snapshots, snapper and rollbacks

2023-08-12 · 13 min · 2710 words · Arash Sal Moslehian
Arash Sal Moslehian

An Introduction to Asynchronous Programming in Rust and a High-level Overview of Tokio's Architecture

Asynchronous programming allows the development of services that can handle millions of requests without saturating memory and CPU utilization. Support for asynchrony is usually baked into the programming language; we take a look at async support in Rust, a type-safe and memory-safe systems programming language that guarantees safety at compile time using rules that eliminate many issues prevalent in traditional languages. We take a peek at the inner workings of Tokio, an asynchronous runtime for Rust that provides scheduling, networking, and many other primitive operations for managing asynchronous tasks....

2023-01-25 · 54 min · 11413 words · Arash Sal Moslehian
Screen Sharing in Linux on Unsupported Platforms

Screen Sharing in Linux on Unsupported Platforms

A lot of conferencing or chatting platforms do not have a native Linux client and do not allow you to share your screen through their web apps either. An example of such a platform is Adobe Connect. You could use Wine (vanilla wine or a wrapper like lutris, bottles, playonlinux, and etc.) to install the native client and share your screen that way, but sometimes getting that to work is just way too much of a hassle....

2022-12-21 · 4 min · 668 words · Arash Sal Moslehian