Posts tagged 'tech'

Notes on Cloud OLTP

posted on 8 February, 2025 in tech, databases

I previously (probably like many “old-skool” C++ devs) thought of cloud computing primarily as renting other peoples’ machines at a high mark-up. However, I’ve been reading up on papers in the databases research field and so thought I would share some of my findings. The use-case I will be talking about here is how modern OLTP databases are designed for the cloud and their corresponding advantages.

Adding a Lightbox Library to Hakyll

posted on 21 June, 2023 in haskell, tech

Often when I am blogging, I am describing past events such as holidays and one of my hobbies during those times is to take some snaps. Hakyll, my static site generator, lets you write these articles in markdown format, insert image tags and have them rendered by pandoc into HTML.

The Perfect Desktop Environment (for me)

posted on 15 December, 2022 in tech

Many Linux users settle on whatever their desktop environment their distro provides. Then there are others are endlessly tinkering–that was me. However, for the last couple of years, I’ve settled on what I think is a happy middle-ground between the flexibility of a tiling WM like sway and the usability of GNOME or KDE.