A path through the garden
Tools & experiments.
Useful tools, small discoveries, and things learned by trying.
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- Gzip files with Java streams
An older file-compression helper and the resource-handling limits of its happy-path cleanup.
Mobile & interfaces / Tools & experiments - Java primitives and byte-array boundaries
An older conversion helper for numbers, offsets, and array slices.
Mobile & interfaces / Tools & experiments - Keeping a JavaScript receiver with bind
Why extracting a method changes its receiver, and how bind preserves the intended object.
Tools & experiments - Keeping terminal work in tmux sessions
A small session, window, and pane reference for an older Linux terminal workflow.
Tools & experiments - Keeping WordPress changes in a child theme
An earlier child-theme setup and the need for the directory, parent template, and styles to agree.
Tools & experiments - Kotlin nullable access and the non-null assertion
A small comparison of direct access, safe calls, and the !! operator.
Mobile & interfaces / Tools & experiments - Loading a .env file in Node.js
A small CommonJS example showing why configuration must load before it is read.
Tools & experiments - Making a Dart singleton visible at the call site
A small comparison between explicit instance access, ordinary construction, and a factory constructor.
Mobile & interfaces / Tools & experiments - MD5 digests and keyed SHA-256 in Node.js
Two small crypto examples that perform different operations: an MD5 digest and an HMAC.
Tools & experiments - Named regex groups in a Vietnamese text message
Extracting an amount and timestamp from a fixed four-line message format.
Tools & experiments - Opening a small URL set in Chrome on macOS
An earlier shell loop for launching several known destinations through the application launcher.
Tools & experiments - Pass RPC authentication through an older Web3 provider
Historical Web3 1.7.4 HTTP/WebSocket and Truffle fragments, with credential and provider-shape defects explicit.
Blockchain / Tools & experiments