Why the existing Python and Go gpsd exporters keep crashing, how a Rust rewrite fixes it, and wiring the whole thing up with Prometheus on NixOS — including the gpsd configuration that nobody tells you about.
Getting Ecowitt weather station data into Prometheus and Grafana with a Rust exporter and a NixOS module — with forwarding to Home Assistant and other receivers.
Using Crane to get reproducible Nix builds for Rust while keeping the standard Cargo workflow intact for developers who don't use Nix.
ProtonVPN assigns ports dynamically via NAT-PMP and they change without warning. A small Rust daemon keeps qBittorrent's listening port in sync, recovers from failures, and exports Prometheus metrics — all wired up as a NixOS module.
Setting up a private Homebrew tap to distribute a Rust CLI tool — using Nix for reproducible cross-compilation across four platforms, GitHub Releases for binary hosting, and a release script that handles the whole thing.
Packaging a Rust CLI tool with Nix so it produces fully static Linux binaries (musl) and portable macOS binaries — no Nix store paths baked in, no runtime dependencies to chase.
Why I wrote a simple Prometheus exporter for FreeBSD bhyve VMs managed by vm-bhyve, and how to use it.
How a Rust-based template generator turns the boilerplate of adding a new NixOS host to a dotfiles flake into a guided, repeatable process.