Topic: Project

Whenever I put together an architecture diagram, I end up needing the same kind of visual element: a small labelled box with an icon that clearly signals what kind of service or system it represents. Keeping consistent sizing, border treatment, and colour coding across a whole diagram is tedious when you’re assembling things by hand. I built Component Creator to solve that — think of it as a button generator, but for diagram nodes.

Google Fonts routes your visitors’ IPs through fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com on every page load — there’s no opt-out if you use the hosted CSS directly. I built a small nginx Docker image that sits in front of Google’s font infrastructure, rewrites the CSS on the fly, and serves everything from your own domain — visitors never connect to Google directly.

I run this website and a few other projects on Bunny CDN: the production setup is a Storage Zone for hosting all assets and a Pull Zone for CDN services. After each build I need the same loop over and over — walk the local output tree, compare it to what Bunny already has, upload what changed, and optionally remove objects that no longer exist locally. That workflow is second nature with aws s3 sync; for Bunny’s HTTP storage API I wanted something equally boring and reliable, not a one-off shell script.

I’ve been tinkering on a project that’s been both challenging and rewarding: building a native iOS app in Swift to control my KEF speakers. It started with a simple need — a clearer view of what’s playing — but quickly turned into a deep dive into debugging, APIs, and SwiftUI. Here I’ll share what I learned and the moments that made it worthwhile.

I managed to migrate all content from Gatsby to Hugo within the weekend. Old links redirect to the new structure and the bundled JavaScript and CSS assets are way smaller. For website analytics, I use Fathom (if you use this link for Fathom you save 10$ on your first bill).

With the content on 68Keys.io, you can build your own custom 68% Mechanical Keyboard! Sounds great, right? You will find all information about the needed Circuit Board, Aluminium Case, and modified TMK firmware on the project’s site.