JonLuca's Blog

Building a better sports stream viewer by extracting HLS playlists, keys, cookies, and headers.

Why every abstraction leaks, and why good abstractions give users a deliberate way through.

Using K-means clustering on writing style to classify disputed Federalist Papers authorship.

Lessons from moderating online communities about when megathreads help and when they hurt discussion.

Profiling shell startup and trimming Oh My Zsh and NVM overhead for a faster terminal.

Why maintaining old code creates institutional knowledge that clean rewrites can easily erase.

A student's reflection on USC's operating systems course, its workload, and what made it valuable.

Clarifying the difference between static, dynamic, strong, and weak type systems.

Thinking about information propagation, scale, and how the internet changed what people can know.

Why words per minute oversimplifies typing skill and ignores the work that actually slows programmers down.

Why this personal blog exists as a home for exploratory, opinionated, and loosely edited writing.

How compression, caching, HTTP/2, and deployment changes made a static personal site dramatically faster.