Linux distributions are a common choice for running the servers. There's a wide variety of distributions, but on the servers majority is made by only a few.

Some corporations also profit from the support of the “big” distributions. Let's dive into the pros, cons and peculiarities of such business.

This post is inspired/triggered by the following Mastodon post:

Rust has become a rather popular language these days. I've managed to get my hands dirty with it during [Advent of Code] ‘22 and partially ‘23. I've also used it for few rounds of [Codeforces] and I have to try very hard to maintain some variety of languages for LeetCode challenges along with the Rust. I'll disclaim up front that I won't be only positive, since this post is a result of multiple discussions about Rust and I stand by “All that glitters is not gold”, so if you can't stand your favorite language being criticized in any way, don't even proceed. 😉

When you decide to run Fedora on your VPS, you might get screwed over by using random repositories…

Let's go through the fourth week of [Advent of Code] in Rust.

Let's go through the third week of [Advent of Code] in Rust.

Let's try to solve one of the LeetCode challenges in easy and hard mode at the same time.

Let's go through the second week of [Advent of Code] in Rust.

Let's go through the first week of [Advent of Code] in Rust.

Let's talk about the preparations for this year's [Advent of Code].