The World Aflame

The World Aflame

Cross-compiling a simple Rust web app

Exploring the pain of trying to cross-compile a statically-linked Linux binary from macOS, and why OpenSSL makes this harder than it needs to be.

Writing a simple Rust app for handling a contact form

At the time of writing this post, I do not have a simple "Contact Me" page on this site, making it a bit harder for anyone who wants to, to contact me. So what do I do? Well, I figured I would use a service like MailGun to send emails to my own address.

English Marginal Tax Rates

This is a look at the English marginal tax rates, and how the default assumption that there are three (Basic, Higher, Additional) isn't at all correct, and how increasing your pension contribution doesn't cost you nearly as much as you might think.

Getting Started

How I configured this blog, starting from the infrastructure layer deployed on Digital Ocean by Terraform.

First Post

Welcome to this blog! The first real post should be coming soon, and will be a guide to how I got this website set up, and why I chose the tools that I did. Or maybe just part one of several - it was a fair amount of work to