Computer Science

Why I Avoid SMR Drives – and What the New Western Digital Warnings Reveal

10/24/2025 / By / Computer Science, Performance Tuning, Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

Over the years, I’ve learned that high performance doesn’t just happen – neither in life nor in databases. When I transformed myself from an 85 kg couch potato into a 65 kg triathlete, I realized the same principle applies everywhere: performance is the result of conscious choices, discipline, and understanding what really goes on under …

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Building a VS Code Debugging Workflow for a Custom x64 Operating System with QEMU and GDB

07/22/2025 / By / Computer Science, osdev / Leave a Comment

Designing and debugging your own operating system is one of the most fulfilling but technically demanding projects you can undertake as a systems programmer. You have to build every abstraction yourself – memory management, privilege levels, system calls, user-space transitions, and interrupt handling – all while dealing with the quirks of real hardware and complex …

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Solar-Powered, Proxmox-Driven: A Tour of My Ultimate SQL Server Home Lab

05/12/2025 / By / Computer Science, SQLServer / 4 Comments

Back in 2018, I wrote a blog post about my Home Lab environment, which I had built around VMware vSphere to showcase various SQL Server workloads and demonstrate how to troubleshoot performance-related problems. Since then, a lot has changed – especially with the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom. In the past, I was a subscriber …

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Exploring Neural Networks with TensorFlow in Visual Studio Code Dev Containers

08/09/2023 / By / Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science / Leave a Comment

Over the past few weeks, I’ve rekindled my interest in Artificial Intelligence research, spurred by the recent buzz surrounding topics like ChatGPT’s release a few months ago. Although I delved into this field back in 2016, the rapidly evolving landscape has motivated me to revisit it and delve deeper. My current focus revolves around delving …

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vscode-binutils: Analyzing Binary Files directly within Visual Studio Code

11/30/2022 / By / Computer Science, Linux / Leave a Comment

As you know, I’m a crazy person, and I have done a lot of different computer science research projects like developing my own RISC-based CPU and implementing my own x64-based operating system. But over the last weeks and months, I have spent a lot of time doing some low-level research in the Linux Kernel. This work …

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