How I switched from classic hosting to Kubernetes
Kubernetes + helm does everything that provisioning server instances, configuring web server reverse proxies, and actually deploying your services does, all in one. It has to be complicated.…
The perils of other peoples services
I created a completely self-contained reverse geo-location service which you can host yourself. Code and docker images available on github.…
Trusted time
Time stamping is an increasingly valuable complement to digital signing practices, enabling organizations to record when a digital item—such as a message, document, transaction or piece of software—was signed.…
Switching from Medium to Ghost
It seemed easy enough, if you already have a DigitalOcean or similar hosting provider. It all should be done in 5 easy steps. Getting the pre-built ghost image was the easy part.…
Clean AppDelegate
The App Delegate has many responsibilites by default including crash reporting, analytics, setting up the CoreData stack, notifications etc.This breaks the Single Responsibility principle because the AppDelegate handles too many things.…
How to use ZKP to prove set membership without exposing the set or the member
Walther WSR-16 mechanical calculator. The row of digit-wheels in the carriage (at the front), is the AccumulatorI present a simple example with a prover and a verifier who do not know each other in advance and only share data in the form of a commitment to a set. The source…
From Swift to Kotlin and Back Again
This article is a reaction to the From Java to Kotlin and Back Again article, which I disagree with on pretty much every single point.Kotlin is popular, Kotlin is familiar if you are coming from iOS development. Kotlin gives you compile-time null-safety and less boilerplate than Java. Naturally, it’…
Why we dropped Realm
Before we begin, I should describe why we started using Realm in the first place. Realm is fast. Really fast. At least in this comparison to SQLite + SharkORM. In most use cases, I rarely perform 10.000 select statements, and in most apps I have been a part of developing,…