Notes, experiments, and writeups.
I recently looked into my blog’s performance and was surprised to find my pages were downloading over 3.6 MB of JavaScript and render-blocking CSS on every load. Here is the step-by-step breakdown of how I reduced my payload and removed JavaScript.
Diagnose a Kafka throughput drop after v3.9.0. Learn why min.insync.replicas slows consumers and how to fix performance safely.
I recently looked into my blog’s performance and was surprised to find my pages were downloading over 3.6 MB of JavaScript and render-blocking CSS on every load. Here is the step-by-step breakdown of how I reduced my payload and removed JavaScript.
Diagnose a Kafka throughput drop after v3.9.0. Learn why min.insync.replicas slows consumers and how to fix performance safely.
Learn what vector databases are, how semantic search works, and why ANN, DiskANN, and Vamana matter for modern retrieval systems.
Understand procedural generation in No Man’s Sky, from Perlin noise to layering and domain warping for massive game worlds.
Set up dual GPU gaming laptops in Hyprland with the right iGPU priority, video decoding configuration, and battery-saving GPU switching.
