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Practical insights and ideas from the journey so far
SuperScreen: Turning an Android Phone into a Touch Second Monitor for Windows
A deep dive into designing a virtual display driver, a low‑latency video pipeline, and a polished control app - and shipping it all as open source.
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How Databases Actually Store and Find Your Data
A walk through the storage engines behind your database - hash indexes, LSM-trees, B-trees, and the column stores that power analytics. Based on Chapter 3, "Storage and Retrieval," of Martin Kleppmann's Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
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TellWing - A Case Study
Building a personalized children's activity-book platform: the problem, the scope, and the solution.
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AQ Trading | Business Platform for a Vehicle Export Operation
A case study on replacing fragmented spreadsheets and manual workflows with a unified operations platform and public catalogue.
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Sektors | Klinik-Finder - Psychiatric Care Coverage Finder
A full-stack geospatial web application that helps people find the healthcare facility responsible for their location, based on their exact address.
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HIPAA & GDPR Compliance for Healthcare Software: A Practical Guide
A developer-focused walkthrough of what it actually takes to build compliant web and mobile healthcare software. The requirements, checklist, caveats, and certification. Last updated: Aug 7, 2026. Regulations change; see the "A note on currency" section before relying on any specific detail.
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Curelios - Engineering Case Study (Backend)
A privacy-by-design healthcare second-opinion platform for the German market - designed and validated in closed beta.
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Building Switchboard: A Local-First AI Calling-Agent Platform
How do you build an AI that answers the phone, takes orders? A case study on Switchboard: the architecture, design decisions, real bugs, and hard-won lessons behind a modular, voice-capable AI calling-agent platform.
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Building Jobprep: An AI Platform That Preps You for the Job and Applies for you
Job-search & application system. It reads your resume, evaluates and mentions strengths & weaknesses, drills you with tailored and mock interviews, tests with assessments, and applies to roles on your behalf with AI. Here's the architecture, and an account of where AI shines and where it breaks.
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