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Ricing tuigreet

In my recent adventures with Linux I managed to finally join the squad of Archers by installing Arch Linux - again. The last time I tried this was in the year of 2016, and after seriously not liking it, I switched (back) to Debian instead. In those 10 years the experience for installing has improved massively I have to add (and this is without using an ‘arch install’ script which I didn’t even…

The largest error ever produced

While learning the way of the Zio and getting closer into the inner orbit of the one and only A. de Goes, I managed to upset my terminal. How, you wonder? Well, here’s a small bit of code to do just that: import zio._ import zio.http._ import zio.http.endpoint.Endpoint import zio.http.codec._ import zio.stream.ZStream object ZioHttpCodecHell extends ZIOAppDefault { type LazyStream = ZStream [ Any…

How much smaller can you make a website?

Here is part two to “How small can you make a website?”. That adventure ended on me simply using Busybox, and calling it a day. However, what I was naturally curious about is compiling the whole server as a single Rust binary, which is what I did next:

How small can you make a website?

This is going to be my 2nd article that falls into the ‘what if?’ category. Now, the question here is: how small can you make a website? First up, with website I mean rendering a page, from a piece of dusty hardware (see image below), available on some IP address.

Zio is a joke

Introduction

Scala and Zio: Humble Beginnings

Introduction

How to cheat at Wordfeud?

Editorial note: this article got written in 2022, but I never wrapped up this project (or this post) because it became to heady for my little noodle. All in all I still think it’s worth posting if not for the beautiful little wordfeud tables I made in CSS. ✨ This post does end rather abruptly if you manage to make it all the way to the end. A story about Wordfeud I play Wordfeud with my dad, just…

Everything is a PNG

Introduction I want to preface this by saying that what is written in this article is purely an exercise of curiosity and simply a result of the question: “what if?”. All of this stems from a project I recently found called wave-share [1], which converts files to audio, which can be picked up by a microphone. It’s a pretty clever idea, and it got me thinking if file data can be converted to…

My intercom - Part 1

Introduction In this day and age, a surprising amount of devices can be hooked to the internet. My door intercom for example can be connected to the Wi-Fi. This feature naturally piqued my interest, namely: can I unlock the two central doors from my apartment building from my laptop or any other device? Or can I snoop using the installed cameras?

How to copy a file between devices?

Introduction Copying a file across devices is painful. You’re on your phone, but you want to access a file that’s on your laptop. How do you do it? What about the other way around? What about copying any file between any of your devices? I asked my dad how he copies a file from his phone to his computer, and he replied with: “through mail attachments, or I use WeTransfer if it’s too big.”. If you…