felix's blog
Here you'll read stuff related to programming - either me showing off, debating interesting problems, or crying about JavaScript.
System Design
Architecture: Database Sharding In the realm of managing burgeoning data stores, the allure of database sharding often beckons as a panacea for scaling woes. Yet, before delving into the... Architecture: Relational Databases Databases are crucial for storing the states of our applications, but many people have a limited understanding of how they operate. Today, I will discuss two...
Projects
MCA Benches - Hobby Project A Discord-gated web app for tracking Guild Wars 2 build benchmarks. It ingests dps.report logs, auto-validates submissions against the official bench, and diffs a player's rotation against the reference cast by cast. Dinermind - University Project This project was created during my App Development Course at XU Exponential University of Applied Sciences. In a team of three we had about six weeks to... IconGenerator.eu - Hobby Project Lots of communities, websites, and tools need icons for operation. There are a lot of free icons to be had but getting them in a coherent style is often a... TeamSpeak.gg - Hobby Project This Project started back when I was actively using & maintaining a public TeamSpeak-Server.
Tinkering
What I learned for my next Web Summit (2019) Web Summit is an annual tech-conference help in Lisbon, Portugal. Experts from every industry will come together for Web Summit. Share ideas with others in... Measuring LiPo Voltage using an Arduino I’ve been flying FPV racing drones for quite some time. For FPV as well as lots of other RC activities, lithium polymer batteries are essential. Typical lipo... How this Blog works with Serverless Workers Cloudflare provides an easy way to implement serverless workers directly on your site. This can be used to build yourself a Notion Blog like this. Or anything...