Vivian Voss

Writing

Technical substance. No corporate fluff.

I publish daily on LinkedIn: series on tools, patterns, performance, and the demoscene. Each post is backed by data or decades of hands-on experience.

Active Series

Monday

The Unix Way

FreeBSD vs. Linux solutions. Both sides benefit from the comparison. pf vs nftables, ZFS snapshots, service management.

Tuesday

Technical Beauty

Celebrating elegant tools. SQLite, Git, nginx, curl, WireGuard, ZFS: software that earns its place through decades of stability.

Wednesday

Stack Patterns

Problem, pattern, code. Practical solutions in CSS, HTML, Rust, and full-stack development. Copy-paste ready, tested.

Thursday

By Design

Deliberate trade-offs that shaped legendary software. One constraint, one decision, one principle. Why saying "no" produced the tools we rely on most.

Friday

The Invoice

What you buy vs. what you actually pay. The hidden costs of microservices, Kubernetes, npm, serverless, Docker, and Scrum.

Saturday

Beta Stories

Software decay under the microscope. Electron bloat, forced updates, feature creep, enshittification. Data-driven, not polemic.

Sunday

Performance-Fresser

Root-cause analysis of performance killers. npm, React Virtual DOM, CSS-in-JS, Docker overhead, Webpack, JavaScript bloat.

Weekly

Bytes of Art

The demoscene as cultural heritage. 4K intros, cracktros, tracker music. Extreme constraint as art form.

Weekly

On Second Thought

Reconsidering assumptions. Why mathematicians design programming languages, why the industry copies without questioning, and what happens when you look at familiar ideas from an unfamiliar angle.

Fortnightly

Borrowed Land

Digital sovereignty under the microscope. Europe wants independence but builds on kernels, clouds, and protocols governed elsewhere. Jurisdiction, governance, and the infrastructure you do not own.

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All series publish on LinkedIn. 5,800+ followers. 1,300+ subscribers. 2.2M+ impressions in four months. Growing.

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