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Ephemeral Insights 5 notes

Quick reflections on tech, software, systems, and everyday discoveries, written down before they fade from memory.

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Jun 2026

Translation / 16 Jun 2026 When UI localization is only half the battle In the recent Hestia survey, many users asked me to add Chinese localization to Hestia. That's no problem with the current technology, so why not? I thought the hardest part was wiring...

Architecture / 9 Jun 2026 Rust as a web app? Introducing an experimental Altcha server Link: https://cerberus.hnawc.com/demo

Serverless / 7 Jun 2026 Inside the survey: Anonymous & Autonomous With the release of Hestia version 1.5.0, the feedback survey for version 1.4.1 has officially come to a close. It was exciting to read everyone's feedback and respond to it. Survey...

May 2026

Rust / 30 May 2026 Reading a file in chunks? Swallow it whole! Recently, I had to render multiple high-resolution images on a Rust + Egui stack for Hestia. The bottleneck was obviously the process being choked by decoding and rendering, but let's...

Rust / 30 May 2026 It seems I was still living in 2004... I was writing a small tool in Rust to scan folders recursively on my PC and generate a hash for each file, but it was too slow. Wondering if it was due to the PC limitations, I naturally...