JKirchartz's Research Links

I don’t like to cover “current events” very much, but the American government just revealed a truly bewildering policy effectively banning import of new consumer router models. This is ridiculous for many reasons, but if this does indeed come to pass it may be beneficial to learn how to “homebrew” a router. Fortunately, you can make a router out of basically anything resembling a computer. I’ve used a linux powered mini-pc as my own router for many years, and have posted a few times before about how to make linux routers and firewalls in that time.

Joins are NOT Expensive! - Raw Reading: When talking about Data Lakes and how people access them - we must address some of the misconceptions that made them popular in the first place.

Old browsers don’t have JavaScript compression APIs, so we store data in pixel color channels and export to PNG to compress data.

A guide to using uv to create and manage Python projects, including adding dependencies, running commands, and building publishable distributions.

A free book about how to use the terminal multiplexer "Tmux"