Thinking outside the box, creating abstract solutions to solve the impossible
Dell said it was impossible to unlock voltage control, turns out that wasn't true!
Hello, I'm Ethan, a college educated software developer with an undying thirst for knowledge. My main areas of interest are self hosting, infrastructure and software development. Aside from tech, I enjoy researching psychology, finance and philosophy. My off time (rare) consists of playing RimWorld or Cities Skylines.
It all started with the Dell Latitude E5420, a low-end business laptop that turned even the simplest games into slideshows. This awful experience unironically got me interested in tech and hardware, it also inspired me to learn about performant software design.
Rather than memorizing syntax, I focus on grasping core concepts and understanding the underlying technology. This approach allows me to transfer knowledge between different frameworks, langauges and software. Creating effective solutions regardless of the implementation.
Theres a lot of e-waste in the world; this is another area that pushed me into writing performant software. Older devices have a tremendous amount of computing power, we should aim to squeeze out all the performance we can before necessently upgrading to newer hardware.
Don't believe me? My projects, including this site are hosted on a server that was released in 2009! If you're curious about the security, you have my full permission to go ham :) there's a $500 bounty if you can change the background of this page.
Currently I work as an independent contractor, creating and architecting bespoke applications. Starting from bare metal (spec-ing out hardware, building the server), setting up infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker, Analytics, Monitoring) and then going public. Additionally using independent services or off the shelf offerings, its all the same to me.
Tying back to sustainability, I understand how design choices directly impact performance and business outcomes, doing more with less essentially. I've built large scale multi-stream data transformers that intelligently advance only the most relevant stream until a match is found, instead of cycling between all streams when evaluating the filter. This reduces costs, compute time and latency. Super nerdy but I find it fun haha.
Assisted with development of the Invirgance Java Framework, creating large scale data transformers. Along with development of a universal command line tool that works with any variaty of SQL Server.
Independently researched and implemented Ansible automation solutions based on business requirements, reducing deployment time of AppDynamics agents by ~80%.
Developed a web application that provided customers with on demand services. Additionally teaching alongside 4 other junior developers, helping them learn and work through difficult tasks.
I swear its simple, here's a full walkthrough. You'll learn kubernetes, Docker and how to keep yourself safe with Cloudflare. Host any sort of project you want, the only constraint you have now is your upload speed. The only thing you need to pay for is a domain name...
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No more crying. Just read this.
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Hey man, I noticed you read my PUBLIC .env file even though it's included in robots.txt, that's really not cool. I'll be back in a week once you've finally downloaded the whole file.
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Slow? Were in the year 2025 and your website is slow???
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No more opening the wrong application, a simple solution to Microsoft's search placement.
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A work around to utilize dynamic enviroment variables inside docker files.
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Integrating Meilisearch with Rails 7 to get fast, low-latency search results.
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Notes covering slow SSH connections and possible fixes/alternative solutions.
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A guide covering re-enabling voltage control on supported and unsupported Dell / Lenovo laptops.
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There isn't an easy way to include comments with highlighted text, but this JavaScript library enables adding comments alongside selected text. It supports multi-line selections, dynamic scaling, and various font families out of the box.
Compress PDFs without the file leaving your network. This is done by using WebAssembly and handling the compression on the client side.
Allows you to apply transparency to programs without impacting performance, allowing you to multitask more effectively. For ex reading documentation under your IDE. Under the hood its a wrapper around the SetLayeredWindowAttributes Windows API along with a cache of handles for the selected window classes.
Collects all Canadian weather data from 1996 to the current day, in as little as 15 seconds*. After scraping this data can be used to create line/box plots.
Allows you to have a visual overview of your ebook library. It also supports reading with endless scrolling or typical left/right navigation. This project was created mainly to learn how to create projects independently.