miniblog.

TIL cargo is exploring a Rust script mode, essentially a concatenation of Cargo.toml and main.rs

Building a device that will automatically power cycle your router if you have no internet access! https://hackaday.com/2019/11/02/router-rebooter-without-the-effort/ It feels like a solution at the wrong level of abstraction, but it has a certain elegance.

Today I learnt you can estimate the age of a machine by looking at SMART data! $ smartctl -a /dev/sda 9 Power_On_Hours Old_age 9335 (92 144 0) 12 Power_Cycle_Count Old_age 3900 I bought my ThinkPad second hand and it's had an amazing number of boots.