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I created the most popular Turkish social platform using a single plaintext file as its database back in 1999. It had taken me only three hours to get it up and running without any web frameworks or anything. It was just an EXE written in Delphi. The platform's still up and running albeit running on .NET/MySQL now and getting banned by Erdogan government continuously.
You can find its ancient source code from 1999 here: https://github.com/ssg/sozluk-cgi
The platform is currently at https://eksisozluk1999.com because its canonincal domain (https://eksisozluk.com) got banned. Any visitors from outside Turkey should get redirected anyway.
I wrote it up in a bit more detail[1], so I'm giving away the punch line here, but I used to use some cursed bash wrappers to smuggle my bashrc and vimrc along on ssh sessions to mostly-ephemeral hosts by stashing them in environment variables matching the LC_* pattern allowed by default for pass-through in debian-ish sshd configs.
[1]: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2149340
It uses the headless version of Chrome/Chromium or Edge behind the scenes.
It made me realize that even big projects have features that just don't work. Edge headless wouldn't let you take screenshots up until recently, and I still encountered issues with Firefox last time I tried to add support for it in the package. I also stumbled upon weird behaviors of Chrome CDP when trying to implement an alternative to using the headless mode, and these issues eventually fixed themselves after some Chrome updates.
[1] https://github.com/vgalin/html2image
A couple years ago, I had an idea for convincing a filesystem to go faster using 2 compression steps instead of one. I couldn't see why it wouldn't work, and I also couldn't convince myself it should.
It seems to have worked out. [1]
[1] - https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/commit/f375b23c026aec00cc9527...
I built a recipe detector. You can, you know, train some sort of AI model to do this like with fasttext, or maybe do naive bayesian inference, but as it turns out, you can also:
https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch/blob/ma...
It works annoyingly well.
I created https://rethinkraw.com that hijacks Adobe DNG Converter to provide a very limited Adobe Camera RAW that can even run on Linux. Why? Because why not.