announcing bulgur cloud

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content/bulgur-cloud-intro.md

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+title: An introduction to Bulgur Cloud - simple self hosted cloud storage
+date: 2022-03-29
+---
+
+> This post is day 8 of me taking part in the
+> [#100DaysToOffload](https://100daystooffload.com/) challenge.
+
+I've been recently working on Bulgur Cloud, a self hosted cloud storage
+software. It's essentially Nextcloud, minus all the productivity software. It's
+also designed to be much simpler, using no databases and keeping everything on
+disk.
+
+The software is still too early to actually demo, but the frontend is at a point
+where I can show some features off. So I wanted to show it off.
+
+![The login screen](/img/2022-03-29-00-17-38.png)
+
+I've been going for a clean "print-like" look. I think it's going pretty well so far.
+
+![The directory listing](/img/2022-03-29-00-16-13.png)
+
+I'm not sure about the details of how the directory listing will look. I don't
+think I like the upload button in the corner, and the rename and delete icons
+feel like they would be easy to mis-press. There is a confirmation before
+anything is actually deleted, but it still would be annoying.
+
+![Delete confirmation prompt](/img/2022-03-29-00-20-48.png)
+
+Something I'm pretty happy with is the file previews. I've added support for
+images, videos, and PDFs. Video support is restricted by whatever formats are
+supported by your browser, the server doesn't do any transcoding, but I think
+it's still very useful for a quick preview. I'm also planning on support for
+audio files. The server supports range requests, so you can seek around in the
+video without waiting to download everything (although I've found that Firefox
+doesn't handle that very well).
+
+![Video file preview](/img/2022-03-29-00-22-48.png)
+
+This is a web interface only so far, but I'm planning to add support for mobile
+and desktop apps eventually. I've been building the interface with React Native
+so adding mobile/desktop support shouldn't be too difficult, but I've been
+finding that "write once, run everywhere" isn't always that simple. I ended up
+having to add web-only code to support stuff like the video and PDF previews, so
+I'll have to find replacements for some parts. Mobile and desktop apps natively
+support more video and audio formats too, and with native code you usually have
+the kind of performance to transcode video if needed.
+
+The backend is written in Rust with `actix-web`, using async operations. It's
+incredibly fast, and uses a tiny amount of resources (a basic measurement
+suggests < 2 MB of memory used). I'm pretty excited about it!
+
+After a few more features (namely being able to move files), I'm planning to put
+together a demo to show this off live! The whole thing will be open source, but
+I'm waiting until it's a bit more put together before I make the source public.
+The source will go live at the same time as the demo.

content/do-kids-know-computers-today.md

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-title: Do kids not know computers know?
+title: Do kids not know computers now?
 date: 2022-03-28
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