bearcove was founded by @fasterthanlime in late 2024 to handle the legal aspects of doing open source maintenance and publishing article and videos online.
Content creation
bearcove operates:
- https://fasterthanli.me with long-form Rust content
- https://youtube.com/@fasterthanlime with a variety of tech videos
That content receives funding through:
Additionally, bearcove cooperates with OneVariable UG to produce:
- the Self-Directed Research podcast
Consulting
bearcove specializes in the Rust language, network protocols, build systems, compilers, and other fun things.
Past customers include:
- axo — cross-compilation support for dist
- astral — build time / CI time improvements for uv, HTTP caching
- row zero — streaming zip support added to rc-zip
- mimocad — event processing and broadcasting, data validation, code review
- fly.io — HTTP reverse proxy, TLS termination, orchestration
- netlify — platform engineering, internal Rust training
- itch.io — diff/patching of large games, desktop installer
Open source
bearcove maintains various semi-experimental Rust projects:
- merde — another take on serialization with declarative macros and “metastack” support
- rubicon — macros to make dangerous dynamic linking pattern in Rust a little safer
- rc-zip — a sans-io ZIP implementation in Rust focused on compatibility
- loona — an HTTP/1+2 implementation on top of io_uring, with kTLS support
Legal / Mentions légales
bearcove SARL is a company with a capital of 10 000 euros, registered with the RCS (registre du commerce et des sociétés) of Lyon under the number 934 149 618.
Its address is:
bearcove SARL
4 Quai Jean Moulin
c/o La Cordée SAS
69001 Lyon, France
And its VAT number is FR41934149618.
The sole owner and manager of bearcove SARL is Amos Wenger, you can reach them at admin@bearcove.eu.
This website and other bearcove properties like fasterthanli.me are hosted on a mix of hosts from:
DNS is handled by gcore.