Publications

Articles about software engineering, programming languages and open source work.

• Ulauncher Theme Synchronizer: Anatomy of a Desktop Aware Extension

  How the operating system, the desktop and the launcher work together, and how a Ulauncher extension follows the GNOME light and dark theme.

  • Ulauncher
  • GNOME
  • Python

  Published:Aug 7, 2026 ·  at 09:30 AM

  11 min read

• Singlie: v3.0.0 Release

  A complete TypeScript rewrite of the singly linked list library, with full generics, parameterized and property-based tests, and a registered DOI.

  • Release
  • Singlie
  • Data structures

  Published:Nov 9, 2025 ·  at 06:36 PM

  5 min read

• Java Stream API: Insights and Misconceptions

  An essential introduction to the Java Stream API: laziness, terminal and intermediate operations, and the misconceptions that make streams slower.

  • Java
  • Stream API
  • White paper

  Published:Oct 29, 2024 ·  at 09:10 PM

  17 min read

• The Perpetual Struggle of Best Practices

  A pragmatic definition of a best practice: what makes one, why they decay into ritual, and how to judge whether one applies to your own code.

  • Best practice
  • White paper

  Published:Oct 1, 2024 ·  at 04:50 PM

  6 min read