About

Who is OSIFY?

OSIFY — Our Soft Is For You — began as a freelance team. It was later held, managed and run by Mr. Sok Pongsametrey alone, and the articles here are his own writing, research and experiments. The freelance service came long before the startup and company he runs today.

He writes at pongsametrey.com and is on LinkedIn.

The archive

OSIFY has been writing about software and computing since 2008. What you are reading is the consolidation of two sites — osify.com, the main blog, and ask.osify.com, a question-and-answer companion that ran under the #AskMe banner — into a single archive of 423 articles.

The two ran separately for years and duplicated each other in places. Merging them means one chronology, one search box, one set of topics. Nothing was rewritten to fit: every article keeps the author who wrote it, the date it went out, and a link back to the address it was originally published at.

Before osify.com

The oldest articles here did not start on either site. They ran on computer-experience.blogspot.com from October 2008 until April 2010, when everything was exported to osify.com and the Blogger site was retired. Twenty-eight articles carry that history, and each one names its original address in the publication record at the foot of the page.

Two languages

87 of these articles are written in Khmer, mostly step-by-step guides for developers who would otherwise have had to read them in English. The site is set in Kantumruy Pro, which carries both scripts in one family, so Khmer and Latin sit on the same page without one looking like a substitution for the other.

Who wrote it

osify — 331 articles . Sok Pongsametrey, writing under the OSIFY name — Our Soft Is For You. Started this archive in 2008 and kept it going through Barcamp Phnom Penh, the Khmer Unicode years, and a long run of Java and Android work. OSIFY began as a freelance team and he later ran it alone, well before the company he runs today.
sysomeho — 69 articles . Contributor to the #AskMe side of the archive, mostly Khmer-language tutorials on Git, jQuery and web development.
MTR — 23 articles . Contributor to the archive.

How it is built

Articles are Markdown files with YAML frontmatter, rendered by Astro with Vue 3 for the search and filtering, styled with Tailwind CSS, and served as static files from GitHub Pages. Adding or correcting an article means editing a Markdown file and pushing — the site rebuilds itself.

Images were deduplicated and converted to WebP during the migration, which took the media library from 524 MB down to under 40 MB. A handful of images from 2009-era posts pointed at third-party hosts that no longer exist; where the file could still be retrieved it was pulled in and is now served from here.

Licence

The articles and images are licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 — share them and quote them with credit, but please link rather than repost, and ask before anything commercial. The site's code is MIT, so take the theme if it is useful to you.

Corrections

These are historical documents and are left as written, including the parts that have aged badly. If something is factually wrong about the record itself — a misattributed author, a wrong date — that is worth fixing, and the source is on GitHub.