How to Handle Files Synchronously in the Browser

Three concepts you need to know when you want synchronous file I/O in the browser — OPFS, Web Worker, and FileSystemSyncAccessHandle, each explained from its own angle.

Building My Own Notion CMS Blog — A 4-Month Journey from Planning to Deployment

I wanted an environment where writing feels effortless. This post covers my experience building a blog from scratch — planning, design, development, and deployment — using Notion as a CMS.

[ANN Paper Review] Product Quantization for Nearest Neighbor Search

Quantization, codebook, ADC, IVFADC, residual encoding — every concept that confused me while reading the Product Quantization for Nearest Neighbor Search paper, worked through with illustrations.

Understanding .PHONY in Makefiles by Actually Trying It

Why does make skip a command when a file shares the target's name? I tested the role of .PHONY hands-on and wrote up what I found.

[ANN Paper Review] Approximate nearest neighbor algorithm based on navigable small world graphs

A walkthrough of the ANN paper that builds a Delaunay approximation and a navigable small world (NSW) at the same time using nothing but distance information. We look at how a single simple insertion rule implements graph-based ANN search, with illustrations.

Debugging PostgreSQL Source Code on Mac + VSCode

A step-by-step guide to debugging PostgreSQL source code on Mac with VSCode, covering the full flow from building from source to attach debugging with lldb.