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Development Aug 11, 2024 3 min read

... and I Must Scream

In this post I build a custom Linux kernel module to teach the computer how to scream.

Development Jul 03, 2024 3 min read

Running Swift on a Nintendo DS

I came across a way for Swift code to compile for GameBoy Advance and decided to try it on real Nintendo hardware.

Development Jan 06, 2023 2 min read

The Hour-Long SQL Query, 2023 Edition

In 2015 I found an odd performance issue in the SQL libraries for .NET Framework. Has anything changed in the last 7 years?

Development Nov 17, 2022 2 min read

Something I Learned Recently: WebFinger

Recently I was looking into the structure of Mastodon and "Fediverse" federated communications, and came across a newer standard called WebFinger. This seems to be a HTTP-based evolution of the good old 'finger' command.

Cloud Apr 13, 2022 9 min read

Self-Hosted Git and CI/CD for fun (and profit?)

When I first got into running my own servers, I liked to host just about anything I could (and would actually use), which became a bit of a pain as you have to manage the operating system, system libraries, various software runtimes, create /etc/init.d scripts, assemble your own

Development Dec 10, 2021 4 min read

Debugging Third-Party Code in Visual Studio

This post shows how you can debug code that you didn't write and don't have the source code for.

Development Jun 10, 2021 6 min read

Speeding up some very slow .NET builds

What do you do when upgrading Windows makes your code compile a lot slower? This, of course.

Development Dec 31, 2020 4 min read

Dates are an utter nightmare and YYYY is worse than I thought

Every year we get told that 'YYYY' in date formats is bad. But why? And just how bad is it? (Spoiler: very.)

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