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  • Rust is the answer to the wrong question

    Rust is the answer to the wrong question The below was 100% written by a human. TL;DR: porting an app to another language is merely an anecdote. One shoting an application from scratch optimizes the easy part initial authoring and completely misses the point on the hard part: maintenance. Repeated onshots are not the answer to security vulnerabilities.

    Essay · Programming · Rust · Software Engineering · Security

    5 min · 1,063 words

  • Why Buran Had Four Computers, Not Three — and What a Lean Proof Adds

    **Date:** September 24, 2026 · **Author:** Dmitrii Zatona - Buran’s flight computer was four identical Biser-4 machines running the same programs synchronously. A comparison scheme blocked a failed one, and the design had to survive any two failures (Section 1). - Four is what two failures cost if a failed channel is found by comparing outputs alone. It is not the 3f + 1 of Byzantine agreement, which is a different problem (Sections 2 and 3).

    Essay · Systems Programming · Rust · History · Hardware

    33 min · 7,503 words

  • What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

    A Rust developer's first real Zig project: how the language feels for systems work—manual memory, comptime, error handling, and where it differs from Rust's ownership model and tooling.

    Essay · Programming · Zig · Rust · Systems Programming

    11 min · 2,535 words