florian marending

Storing SSH and encryption keys in 1Password

My laptop is not a one-stop shop for attackers

Understanding passkeys

And improving my online security in the process

Visual regression tests for my website

Gaining confidence in refactorings

Using launchd on macOS to run periodic tasks

Surveilling myself

jour: An opinionated lab journal

A project report

Reflective: A simple self-hosted image gallery

A project report

Cheap and simple service monitoring

An ode to updown.io

Rust tracing to ClickHouse

This shouldn't be this hard

Exploring LLMs

A skeptic reconsiders

ClickHouse for analytics workloads

A third contender emerges

Hosting my side projects the easy way

Choosing boring technology

Should I shoot JPEG or RAW?

Let me overthink this

go: An opinionated bookmark aggregator

A project report

Responsive plots in SolidJS

Saving you very little trouble

The air quality impact of living in a loft apartment

Now without doors

SQLite and DuckDB for analytics workloads

The impact of column orientation

How to store and query unstructured data

Reinventing the wheel

rest.quest: An opinionated to-do list

A project report

Fieldnotes: An end-to-end encrypted note-taking application

A project report

How to host single-page applications

Web server vs. application server

16 hour side-projects

An ode to the MVP

Native Rust vs Webassembly performance microbenchmark

You won't believe the outcome

A brief comparison of Hetzner servers

ARM is a viable option

How fast is SQLite?

Plenty fast

Analyzing rating systems for foosball outcomes

Color me disappointed

9 years worth of company foosball data analyzed

Nobody tell management

The air quality impact of closing your bedroom door at night

Trying not to suffocate while sleeping

A comparison of wireless protocols for battery powered embedded devices

Trying to sleep as much as possible

Measuring power consumption of ESP32 development boards

First forays into embedded devices

Performance tuning a SvelteKit application

Making sure my website can handle all those page views it isn't getting

A study of lines

Some schmuck tries his hands at generative art

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