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Thoughts on web development, design, and more.
Tokyo Recs
The list I send friends when they visit Tokyo: coffee, food, bars, clothes, books, and museums.
The 1€ Filter: Smooth Robot Teleop Without the Lag
Noise makes a teleoperated arm buzz at rest and lag in motion, and one fixed smoothing setting can't fix both. A visual tour of the filters in the drawer — moving average, EMA, Holt, Kalman, median, offline smoothing — and the ten lines that adapt.
MQTT in Plain Terms: Pub/Sub for Unreliable Networks
What MQTT is, how topics, QoS, retained messages, and Last Will work, and a minimal Mosquitto + JavaScript example to get a broker running locally.
simread assets
Exploring simread assets and their applications
Testing 545 Mullvad Exit Nodes From Shanghai
My VPS in Germany was slower than using no VPN at all. Finding a better exit node from behind the Great Firewall meant measuring every relay Mullvad has.