While testing my gopher client, I noticed something interesting:
All downloads froze at 13 kilobytes.
Sometimes, it was barely noticeable, other times it would stall for a good second or so.
Networks operate on small chunks of data called...
It has recently come to my attention that people need a thousand lines of C code to read my website.
This is unacceptable.
For simpler clients, my server supports gopher:
# telnet maurycyz.com 70
/about.txt
--------------------[ About this...
While gopher is usually seen as a proto-web, it's really closer to FTP.
It has no markup format, no links and no URLs.
Files are arranged in a hierarchically, and can be in any format.
This rigid structure allows clients to get creative with...
The Sony FD-30A has a very weird display:
On the surface, it looks like a normal CRT, except that it's impossibly thin:
the whole device is just under 4 cm thick.
To do this, the tube is mounted sideways, and the phosphor is viewed from the...
Modern browsers are hugely complex:
Chromium (the open source portion of google chrome) currently has 49 millions lines of code,
making it bigger then any other program on my machine.
... but how much of that is needed if I just want to visit...