In my Zig learning journey, I’ve managed to not use allocators for anything yet. I’ve watched this great video of Dude The Builder explaining the basics of allocators in Zig.

In the previous post, I went about my experiments with Zig and the FluidSynth Sequencer API.

Today I learned the basics of the FluidSynth Sequencer API. It is not super complicated, but it took me some time to understand the concepts, as not everything is explained in great detail.

Today I was looking for the culprit of the performance issue that was affecting a Django Admin page that wasn’t loading.

In a web application, it’s a common pattern to have the backend to send a UTC timestamp, which the frontend will later display in the user’s timezone.

That’s it, I’ve made the switch to PipeWire! And things are looking great! I was previously using JACK and PulseAudio in parallel, each with its own soundcard, and the setup was a bit cumbersome as for some reason I had not been able to get everything to load at startup, so I had to start JACK manually everytime…

Loguru is a Python library that provides a neat logging API, and I recently learned how to add extra context to the logs.

I find quite cool how quickly you can start using a C library from Zig! No need to write bindings or to fiddle with a FFI, it provides direct integration with C libraries.

Today I learned that you can define a health check for a Docker container, directly on the Dockerfile.

When loading CSV files in Python that were created on Windows, you can get some weird errors because the Microsoft tools usually add a BOM.