2025
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Migrating GOTM from MySQL to Turso
A few notes on the migration and Turso itself
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Ranked Choice Voting for Game of the Month
Building building the voting site for the patient gamers Discord server
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DIY plane spotting at home with a Raspberry Pi
Building a plane spotting system with a Raspberry Pi and an old Android phone
2024
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The 2024 Retrospective
La rétrospective annuelle.
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Running Remix with Bun
Changing Remix's default server from Node.js to Bun
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iOS 18's vehicle motion cues really work
How the new Vehicle Motion Cues feature helps me with motion sickness
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Using a Pico W for wake-on-LAN... Remotely
My adventure with overengineering a simple problem
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To sshfs or to rclone mount?
A totally non-scientific comparison of sshfs and rclone-mount for mounting remote filesystems
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The 2024 edition of How I deploy my Telegram bot
Using semantic release, Docker and k3s to deploy my Python Telegram bot.
2023
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The 2023 Retrospective
La rétrospective annuelle.
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What does HN love about HN?
Or how often middlebrow-dismissal applies to HN itself
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Plotting taxi fares for fun and profit (?)
Running some scripts to plot the fares of taxi rides in Hyderabad and Bangalore.
2022
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The 2022 Retrospective
La rétrospective annuelle.
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10x faster arm64 builds on Github Actions
A simple one-liner mix of Github's managed runners for x86 and a self-hosted runner for arm64.
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Making Cloudfront Signed URLs work with response-content-disposition
A workaround for the Node.js AWS SDK to make Cloudfront Signed URLs work with response-content-disposition.
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Are MySQL UUID inserts really that slow?
Exploring insert performance of UUIDs in MySQL in a worst-case scenario.
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How I deploy my ~4,000 MAU Python Telegram bot
Using semantic release, Docker and watchtower to deploy my Python Telegram bot.
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Cross-compiling Rust on GitHub Actions
Cross-compiling Rust for x86 and aarch64 on GitHub Actions.
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Learning French (efficiently) 🇫🇷
My progress, methods and timelines of learn French efficiently.
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Working with HEIC/F images with Node.js' sharp on AWS Lambda
Compiling libjpeg, libde265, libheif, libvips and sharp to process HEIC/F images in AWS Lambda using layers.
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Bucket List
This is a living, ambitious (perhaps too much), and certainly incomplete list.
2021
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The 2021 retrospective
The annual retrospective of 2021
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The Piquarium Project
Building a fish tank monitoring system using serverless databases and a Raspberry Pi B+ 🍇
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How to automate GitHub releases using GitHub Actions
Using GitHub Actions to push new releases without manually tagging commits.
2020
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Experiments with Time Tracking - 2020 Edition
Continuing my experiments with time tracking, this time the year 2020.
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GSoC 2020 @ CERN - Part II
Wrapping up, presentations and conclusion.
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GSoC 2020 @ CERN - Part I
Community bonding, researching and the first evaluation.
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GSoC 2020 @ CERN - Part 0
Parts of the process before applying including shortlisting projects, reading and choosing what to work on.
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My Experience with GSoC 2020
A 3 part series on my experience with Google Summer of Code 2020 CERN
2019
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Interpreting Computer Programs
Working my way through and solving exercises from Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
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Experiments with Time Tracking
Doing some rudimentary time tracking using Google Sheets
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Astrophotography at the Edge of Tibet
Doing some (amateur) astrophotography in Sangla at the edge of Tibet.