Meta on Matthew's Bloghttps://blog.daubney.dev/tags/meta/Recent content in Meta on Matthew's BlogHugoen-gbWed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Scrobbled - A scrobbly adventurehttps://blog.daubney.dev/posts/scrobbled/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.daubney.dev/posts/scrobbled/<p>Lets go back, back in time to the distant past of 2008, Smash Brothers was Brawl, the financial crisis peaked, Apple launched the App Store and Cassini-Huygens flew through the icy geysers of Enceladus. Heady days indeed. More importantly I opened a Last.FM account and sent my first scrobble!</p> <p>Scrobbling is at it&rsquo;s core sending an event to a service to log the fact that you listened to a music track. Since then the social parts of the website have been slowly stripped to nothing, the inbuilt music player has been replaced with YouTube Music (another day another topic on that disaster, and the loss of utility of streaming music services). The moveing of the remaining useful bits behind a premium subscription has also pushed me further and further away.</p>Rust Based Workflow Runner - Part 1: Architecturehttps://blog.daubney.dev/posts/rust_based_workflow_runner_1_architecture/Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.daubney.dev/posts/rust_based_workflow_runner_1_architecture/<p>At some point in my journey when learning any programming language, I hit a point where I decide to make a directed acyclic graph (DAG) based task runner.</p> <p>Whether this is a good idea or not, whether I should just use one of:</p> <ul> <li><a href="%5BOpenWhisk%5D(https://openwhisk.apache.org/)">OpenWhisk</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/getting-started/introduction.html">Celery</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/">Gitea Actions</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.jenkins.io/">Jenkins</a></li> <li><a href="https://circleci.com/">CircleCI</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rundeck.com/">RunDeck</a></li> <li><a href="https://airflow.apache.org/">Airflow</a></li> </ul> <p>Or one of countless other job runners is kind of irrelevant. I have Opinions<sup>TM</sup></p> <p>Lets sketch out the basic architecture and we can cover those opinions as they come up.</p>Hello, worldhttps://blog.daubney.dev/posts/hello-world/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.daubney.dev/posts/hello-world/<p>Site&rsquo;s under construction. More soon.</p>