Building the next Facebook in a couple of weeks (as a humble experiment)

~27 minutes to read

To spice things up, I am posting a reformatted version of the report I wrote for a web development assignment done during the last year of a computer science degree at the undergraduate level. Facebook should remain a dominant social media platform for a little while longer…



Convenient and lightning fast backups with rsync

~9 minutes to read

Cloud storage became affordable a long time ago while internet connection speeds have increased dramatically over the years. Yet, there is still a strong case to be made for daily backups of a whole system and for this purpose, there are few options to contend with rsync.



Exponentiation in Modular Arithmetic Made Easy

~3 minutes to read

While playing around in the Python interpreter to validate answers to mathematical questions, I quickly found out that very large exponents are dealt with very inefficiently by default as they are simply evaluated as is. That’s where Python came to its own rescue.