Dev

  • CipherSmith: a browser-based crypto toolkit
    May 6, 2026 ·

    For years I had a small private page on my machine with a bunch of hacky tools for day-to-day crypto work. Hashing a string, base64 encoding something, generating a random key. Nothing fancy. Just …

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  • Endless - A dive into a C64 game
    Mar 7, 2025 ·

    Almost 40 years ago, in 1985, a game was released for the Commodore 64 called “Eindeloos” (“Endless”, in dutch). In this game you needed to find your way around a labyrinth …

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  • I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine
    Dec 16, 2023 ·

    Three months ago, I wrote a small story about being fed up with things and trying to do something about it. Three months in, we’ve got a small community sharing the same goal: let’s try …

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  • I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
    Sep 22, 2023 ·

    This blogpost starts with me switching of my car radio, and ends with me writing a browser. There is some stuff in between as well.

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  • A list of 100 opinions I hold
    Sep 5, 2022 ·

    “That’s just like, your opinion, man” - the dude Here’s a list of 100 opinions I hold. These are opinions, not hard facts or truths. There will be many people disagreeing with …

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  • A comprehensive list of failed projects
    Dec 27, 2021 ·

    I’m full of ideas. Most of them are stupid, though. But sometimes, some of these ideas get stuck in my head like an itch I must scratch, and voila: a new side-project is born. I don’t …

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  • Let's talk about your privates
    Nov 7, 2021 ·

    In the software development world, there are a lot of debates going on: tabs vs. spaces, vim vs. emacs, Linux vs. mac, and so on. In most, if not all, these debates, there is no clear winner: both …

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  • My first attempts with Unity
    Sep 1, 2021 ·

    For a while now, I’m thinking about doing something with Unity to see how it works. And what a better way to figure things out is to try and develop a game with it.

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  • Go maps vs switches
    Mar 4, 2021 ·

    Sometimes, things aren’t faster because you think it is,.. but because you benchmarked them. One of Go’s nice things is that it makes it easy to benchmark things to see if your hunches are …

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  • From Mac to Windows
    Aug 12, 2020 ·

    I’ve moved from a Macbook Pro to a Dell PS running Windows 10. I decided against MacBook after their annoucement to move to ARM. Even though the macbook 16" was the only system i actually …

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