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Colin Finck
Personal blog · colinfinck.de/posts · on HN as colinfincksystemsprogramming
Colin Finck writes ColinFinck.de, a personal blog at colinfinck.de about systems and programming. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “An implementation of the NTFS filesystem in a Rust crate”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Welcome to ColinFinck.de! This is the single place where I collect my adventures into ReactOS, Rust, and low-level system software, write about them, and release some tools from time to time. Hope you find something useful here :)
Most-linked posts?
- An implementation of the NTFS filesystem in a Rust crate2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-14
- Targeting 25 years of Windows with Visual Studio 2019 (2021)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-20
What Hacker News says?
FWIW, I recently implemented a safe Rust crate around the Windows variant of intrusive linked lists [1] and spoke about it at EuroRust [2]. I did it only for compatibility and would still prefer vectors whenever I can use them. Nevertheless, I put some efforts into coming up with a useful and high-performing implementation. To give an example: My `append` function is O(1) and not a poor O(N) version that you rightfu…
Comment linking /posts/nt-list-windows-linked-lists-in-idiomatic-rust/
on “In defense of linked lists”Submitted An implementation of the NTFS filesystem in a Rust crate as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> Only if you want to be trendchasing rather than letting backwards compatibility take care of itself... > I'm a native Win32 developer, have been one for a few decades, and know quite a few others still using MSVC6 because it's fast and enough for what they do. Takes <250MB of disk space, and the self-contained binaries it generates will work on any version of Windows starting at Win95. I share your view about the…
Comment linking /posts/targeting-25-years-of-windows-with-visual-studio-2019/
on “Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively”Submitted An implementation of the NTFS filesystem in a Rust crate as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Targeting 25 years of Windows with Visual Studio 2019 (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I had to patch the Universal CRT (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion