Thoughts on software engineering, mobile development, computer vision, and building products.
How I built a real-time NIR vein imaging system on an Android device using USB camera streaming, OpenCV, and custom image processing - and what made it surprisingly hard.
Read article →Practical API design principles I've collected from years of building and consuming REST APIs — focused on the decisions that cause the most pain when you get them wrong.
Read article →Redis doesn't support encrypted passwords, but ACLs let you store SHA‑256 hashes in the config and lock down the default user.
Read article →After shipping a Flutter app for exploring Germany's tourist attractions, here are the key practical lessons — from state management to Firebase gotchas.
Read article →Why writing software that takes full advantage of multi‑core processors is harder than it sounds — and what informatics as a discipline must contend with.
Read article →How to inspect two instances and discover which properties have different values using reflection.
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