Shalvah's Blog

DIY Smart home project: Presence-activated lights

In defence of complexity

Reflections on Year 1 of my engineering studies

Exploring software design problems and solutions: Transactions and side effects

An exploration of vector search

Lessons for me on leadership, from a film about apes

Learn SVG by drawing an arrow

Building a PHP client for Faktory, Part 6: Higher-level usage

Exploring concurrent rate limiters, mutexes, semaphores

High and low cardinality

Packing and unpacking bytes

Building a PHP client for Faktory, Part 5: Protocol

Building a PHP client for Faktory, Part 4: Refactoring

Building a PHP client for Faktory, Part 3: Making development easier

How we cut down our CI build times by 50%

Solving a logic puzzle

Building a PHP client for Faktory, Part 2: Converting to code

Building a PHP client for Faktory, Part 1: Talking over TCP

Connecting to a Windows server process from WSL

Building a task queue, Part 4

Building a task queue, Part 3

Ruby's Module class drives me crazy

Building a task queue, Part 2

Building a task queue, Part 1