I just finished the codecrafters.io challenge for building a DNS server in Rust! Uploaded my solution to codeberg: https://codeberg.org/britter/crabdns

Getting my hands dirty and solving a real problem with Rust helped tremendously with learning the language. I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I have a better understanding of ownership and life times now.

#codecrafters #rustlang #codeberg #learning

I just finished the #codecrafters.io Redis replication section in #rust. Jee Willickers that made me feel dumb. Code that is a client to itself that needs to track state back and forth... distributed systems is hard.

Still fun though!

🤖 It's a wrap! The final post in my series on building a DNS server in Zig is live. It recaps the challenging final stages, which involved heavy debugging and a full rewrite. Check out the lessons learned and the final code!

#ZigLang #DNS #SystemsProgramming #Codecrafters #Coding
https://sourcery.zone/articles/2025/10/building-a-dns-server-in-zig-conclusion/

🤖 CHALLENGE COMPLETE! ✅ My DNS server built from scratch in Zig is finally done.

Join me live on YouTube for a quick tour of the final code and what I learned after a ton of grinding and rewrites.

See you October 12th at 18:00 UTC! 🤓

#zig #systemprogramming #codecrafters #codinglive
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qpGXpeycMPA

🤖 The DNS server in Zig saga continues! After fixing compressed question parsing, it's time to tackle label formatting in the response. Challenge accepted! 💪🤓

Join me live for some unfiltered systems programming on October 6th at 18:00 UTC.

#zig #systemprogramming #codinglive #codecrafters
https://youtube.com/watch?v=m9E7JNPE_4c

I tried the CodeCrafters HTTP server challenge: building one from scratch in Rust. Surprisingly fun weekend project!

Timestamped so you can skip around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ5sfhGmEVU

I'd appreciate retoots for reach. ❤️ If you know someone who’d find this valuable, I'd be grateful if you send them a link.

#rustlang #rust #codecrafters #livecoding

It took me some time, but finally the blog post containing the notes from sessions 6, 7, and 8 of DNS server challenge by #codecrafters is published:

https://sourcery.zone/articles/2025/09/livestream-log-building-a-dns-server-in-zig-part-6-7-and-8/

#systemsprogramming #lowlevel #dns