> For the last year I’ve been leading the development of rust-minidump, a pure-Rust replacement for the minidump-processing half of google-breakpad. > > Well actually in some sense I finished that work, because Mozilla already deployed it as the crash processing backend for Firefox 6 months ago, it runs in half the time, and seems to be more reliable. (And you know, isn’t a terrifying ball of C++ that parses and evaluates arbitrary input from the internet. We did our best to isolate Breakpad, but still… yikes.)

I was planning on doing a distributed metadata database. But it seems there isn't a simple way of doing this yet. There is OrbitDB for JavaScript but I haven't seen anything else. For now I've decided I can get started with the application by simply doing a client-server model. I'll follow this guide: [Building a Multithreaded Web Server](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch20-01-single-threaded.html), and maybe I'll [place the server behind tor](https://libreddit.esmailelbob.xyz/r/TOR/comments/jgkjcw/how_can_i_use_tor_for_clientserver_programming_in/).

Live coding Rust and Matrix. I'm working on a Matrix bot to supply Arnie quotes, but got distracted adding a Redis back end to matrix-rust-sdk. I stream every week on Monday 14:00 London time (currently UTC+1). Join me! https://www.twitch.tv/andybalaam Or my Owncast instance at https://andybalaam.uk.to Follow me on mastodon @andybalaam@mastodon.social to be reminded about streams, or follow the Owncast instance by clicking Follow at https://andybalaam.uk.to I'm actually away on Monday, so next stream is on 6th June. You can watch the old streams at https://diode.zone/a/andybalaam/