Self-Hosted Dynamic DNS
A guide to setting up a DDNS server with support for nsupdate.
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Will Software Engineering Survive?
Investigating recent claims amidst the rise of LLMs.
Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
The current state of app bloat.
Bits of Open-Source in 2025
My open-source interactions in the past year.
Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk
A single-function JSON parser for the POSIX shell.
A Tricky Floating-Point Calculation
Figuring out why a seemingly simple floating-point calculation returned a very wrong result.
Improving Date Formatting Performance in Node.js
A look at how I was able to improve the performance of date formatting in Node.js and the ICU library.
Unix is not Linux
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Installing FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud
A short guide to installing FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud.
A Simple Setup for C and C++
A few steps to allow quick development and debugging of C and C++ programs.