Blog

A collection of blog posts I've written on various topics. Hopefully, I'll update this at least monthly.

Source code used in these posts is available here, under the MIT license.

Writing Wayland screen lockers "for fun" - 2026-03-05
Yes, I wrote (or at least tried to write) more than one
Who needs GUIs anyway? - 2026-02-02
My frustrations with desktop UI, especially GUI toolkits
Writing Tiny Code - Part 2 - 2026-01-02
Optimise the program from part 1 to produce an even smaller binary
Writing Tiny Code - Part 1 - 2025-11-16
Write a tiny hello world program in x86-64 assembly
MySQL Database Connection Tester - 2021-03-09
Write a VB.NET application to test the connection of MySQL databases