Skija a collection of hand-crafted bindings for the JVM to the Skia library (the one that powers Chrome, Android, Flutter and Xamarin).

Introduction to shuffle-sharding and how it’s used in AWS to deliver multi-tenant services that give each customer a single-tenant experience.

A timeline and a precise 3D model of the Beirut explosion on August 2020 re-constructed from open source information including videos, photographs, and documents.

Picocli is a one-file framework for creating Java command line applications with almost zero code. It supports a variety of command line syntax styles including POSIX, GNU, MS-DOS and more. It generates highly customizable usage help messages that use ANSI colors and styles to contrast important elements and reduce the cognitive load on the user.

Comparing the developer experience in terms of time and resource usage of performing clean installs of Oracle and PostgreSQL.

User review of the Gergo keyboard.

Author shares his thoughts on what are the advantages of editors such as Vim and Emacs over fully fledged IDEs.

The author took some time decoding various qr codes he found around his house (mail, packages, products, stamps,…) and makes some educated guesses about what their values might mean.

A comprehensive list of reasonable tasks and habits to be prepared for the unexpected.

Tutorial-style videos about electronics, computer architecture, networking, and various other technical subjects.

This app is an interactive tool for comparing layouts of different split mechanical keyboards built for the community of ergonomic keyboard users. Split keyboards offer an ergonomic solution to many issues that make regular keyboards painful or uncomfortable to use, but finding which keyboard is right for you can be costly and difficult. Most split keyboards come as DIY kits, making it difficult (if not impossible) to compare different keyboard layouts prior to building them. This app offers one solution to this problem.

Article providing a detailed explanation of why high density displays are a must have, even for programmers that only care about text rendering.

This article illustrates how to use TLA+ to formally verify (and find bugs) glibc’s pthread_cond_signal implementation.

Free hosting of web-apps: provides a web-based code editor, persistent storage and backup/restore.

A small javascript quine of an animated ASCII globe surrounded by its own source code.

The source code of this page is identical to the contents that get rendered by the browser.

A general list of pros and cons of REST and GraphQL APIs.

Maps and database of 802.11 wireless networks, with statistics, submitted by wardrivers, netstumblers, and net huggers.

Author describes his ergonomic keyboard obsession: “It started out simple, just wanting to improve my typing experience. It ended with me writing a driver!”

eBPF is a revolutionary technology that can run sandboxed programs in the Linux kernel without changing kernel source code or loading a kernel module.