It's been a while since I last updated this site (No more Leptos). I updated the API and internal management site as well. API and mgmt were still using node.js, until now! Now, we are all rust powered using Snapfire, XWM, HTMX, Actix Web and Tera 2. AI played a big part in why this worked so well and how the data transfer was so easy and fast.

Personally, I've never would've bothered with anything of this, but the advent of AI made me very ambitious. Snapfire and Snapfir...

This release is about the engine underneath.

Tera 2 shipped and it isn't a version bump. It's a rewrite. The Rust API changed, the template language changed, and a handful of things that used to fail silently now fail loudly. Snapfire 0.5.0 moves to it.

Today I'm releasing Snapfire 0.5.0.

GitHub Repository: https:/...

Opus 5 likes to do way more than needed and forget your CLAUDE.md exists, it's annoying. It was a problem ...

RockSolid 3.0.0 brings a dependency update.We are now using rust-rocksdb with minimal changes needed. Enjoy the same API with updated underlying RocksDB 11 library.

Since the last RockSolid post, RockSolid has added TransactionDB, OptimisticTransactionDB, a more user friendly Iterator API that allows skipping.

rocksdb crate has not been published to for a year while the underlying rocksdb advances in version. RocksDB embedded has from 10 to 11 since the last time rocksdb crate was published....

Plaza is a set of foundational building blocks for correct, high performance, server authoritative applications. In Rust.

You implement one trait, StateLogic, and Plaza owns the rest: the controller loop that serializes every change, the transports, and the per-client snapshots. Build a multiplayer game server, or a collaborative document, or a shared to-do list. Anything where many clients change one piece of state and the server has the final word.

It ships as seven crates, and that ...

If I told you how many times AI was happy to optimize for the task and throw away constraints, I'd be a trillionaire. AI has no principles, it's there...

Orka is an asynchronous, pluggable and type-safe workflow engine for Rust, designed to orchestrate complex multi-step business processes with robust context management and conditional logic. It simplifies the development of intricate, stateful workflows by providing a clear structure for defining steps, managing shared data, handling errors consistently, and enabling dynamic execution paths, thereby improving code organization and maintainability for complex operations.

Orka 0.2.0 is...

Dashmap, a self declared high perf map, hands you a footgun, the worst kind of footgun in a concurrent hashmap. It doesn't matter what experience level you are, you will shoot yourself in the foot.

The footgun is in the form of a shard lock whenever you grab a value...

rzmq 0.5.24: crates.io | Github - Async, Pure Rust ZeroMQ with Leading Performance on Linux

After some experimenting, I found that io uring was maxed out on a single thread meaning multiple connections could saturate it, so it's been a long time coming, io_uring sharded workers is here! Yes, rzmq's io_uring is no longer one single thread, it's multiple threads now and meets or beats Tokio in throughput.

I knew there was always more throughput on the table because Tokio could do it and I always had a plan to h...

It's never the intention of the human or AI to add bugs to the software, but given the murkiness of how software is created where you go through a first version then iteration after iteration in hopes of bug free USEFUL software, well let's just say most AI-assisted or driven software development won't go through this because it's hard to find users...

In my earlier post about what was coming in rzmq 0.5.19, I said it would be an 8GB/s update to 11GB/s update, ha I was wrong and it went up to an INSANE 16.2 GB/s! After much optimization and much pain coming from bugs from both rzmq and fibre, I deliver the highest throughput ZeroMQ library in the world.

Also in this update are more socket options like enabling ZMTP 2.0 for old devices. Someone had it implemented in t...

Upcoming version 0.5.19 is shaping up to be a huge performance and correctness update due to fibre bug fixes and efficiency and performance updates (batching) and general rzmq restructuring. Many bugs were found and squashed. Data flows are being simplified and less generalized. io-uring was substantially improved. There's more c...

Performance Highlight

TCP Loopback (tcp://127.0.0.1), 10-second window, release build on an AMD Ryzen 5 7640U

• 2.2 M msg/s — PushPull · 64 B · Linux · io_uring + cork · 4 workers
• 6.6 GB/s — PushPull · 32 KB · Linux · io_uring + cork + multishot + zerocopy · 8 workers

This, I imagine, is near saturation levels on a TCP Loopback pretty much limited by CPU/Memory Bandwidth. No other ZeroMQ library achieves this insane level of throughput. None.

The IO-uring path was simplified, write paths using far more e...

I used 3.5 Flash to tackle a bug in Fibre where MPMC would leak memory due to the way it handles and doesn't handle adding and removing waiters quickly. The ways that 3.1 Pro and Claude did always came up with a regression in performance 50% - 75% drop in bench...

I've been thinking about how to add real estate markets to Hi Stakes Markets Game (HSMG). As many people understand it, it is about owning homes, building structures and land. What most people don't understand is all the mechanics that go into it and don't care for most aspects, they just want to own, maintain and get income. "Be an owner, not a renter."

Marketplace: Focuses on the simplest aspects of the Real Estate Market that stays true to what HSMG is all about. Player...

I just tested content generation, image Curation and human approval with scheduling this weekend. There are four AI Agent...

So there's a project that I've always wanted to do with respect to social media management with scheduling. Turns out, with Python, FastAPI, CrewAI, Redis amongst other dependencies, you can easily stitch something together for a bare working AI agent with memory.

I'm excited about this because it is very practical for Hi Stakes Markets Game. I want to spend time on building, not...

App Store Link

Official Website

Google reviewed it quickly and approved. Apple on the other hand twiddled their thumbs then came back with a rejection based on the idea of needing financial license or whatever. Ridiculous. No matter how many times you mention and put into your terms of service that this a game and not reality nor does it even claim to 100% match reality, they came back with a bull sht excuse to reject

Not once but twice now. This is why the walls for app stores need to be broke...

The official website of Hi Stakes Markets Game is now public. Now we march to App Store release. Should've been done sooner, but bug fixing is long and arduous. That's not to say there aren't bugs, just not show stopping bugs. App looks great.

March is the month of release not withstanding some weird long App Store review.

My tasks are: Submit to Apple and Google by Friday. Get press release ready. Send to different forums.

Marketing

I will be submitting a press release, f...