Jonas Hietala is a writer and developer who blogs about programming, Neovim, Rust, home automation, and hands-on tech projects like 3D printing. With long-form series and personal reflections, he shares practical experiments and lessons from 15+ years of blogging.
156 articles from this blog
A technical guide detailing the steps to build and install the Krita digital painting software on Slackware 14.1 Linux.
A technical guide documenting the author's process of reinstalling and configuring Slackware Linux, including kernel setup, package management, and software installations.
A graduate reflects on their 5-year computer engineering master's at Linköping University, covering courses, projects, and personal growth.
A user details troubleshooting an offset drawing issue in Krita with dual monitors using Xinerama and the solution using RandR.
A technical analysis of reverse-engineering TimeEdit's web interface to extract and parse schedule data via its JSON and HTML endpoints.
A technical guide on patching Wine to fix a timeout error and run Hearthstone's Goblins vs Gnomes expansion on Linux.
A developer's summary of their contributions to the Rust programming language during the IDA Summer of Code 2014, focusing on documentation and code fixes.
A developer's progress update on their ISOC (IDA Summer of Code) project, detailing work on code documentation, RFC proposals, and issue triage.
A technical guide on how to automatically parse and embed YouTube videos in a static site built with the Hakyll framework using custom filters and regex.
A Rust programming simulation of the classic Monty Hall probability problem, demonstrating the counter-intuitive odds.
A Rust developer shares an example of implementing Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm using the standard library's PriorityQueue.
A developer shares their experience and provides a step-by-step guide for making a first contribution to the Rust open-source project.
A developer plans their participation in the IDA Summer of Code, focusing on contributing to the Rust programming language.
A software engineering intern details their summer project optimizing an octree in C++ and using it to simplify 3D meshes by removing invisible triangles.
A personal guide detailing the key steps for reinstalling Slackware Linux, including partitioning, package selection, and custom kernel compilation.
A technical guide on setting up IRC notifications using irssi, xmonad, urxvt, and dzen for a custom Linux desktop environment.
A technical guide on how to properly call closures stored in a Rust Vec, addressing common borrowing and mutability errors.
A developer solves a 'resource exhausted' error in Hakyll by identifying and killing Spotify processes consuming inotify watches.
A student's accepted application to the IDA Summer of Code program, where they will be paid to work on the Rust programming language.
A developer's post-mortem on an unfinished game, 'Mining Incorporated', created for the Ludum Dare 48-hour game jam.
