Casey Link's Weblog

This is a roundup of my open source work in Q1/Q2 2026.

Hetzner is a price-competitive and conceptually simpler alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers for the small orgs and teams that I tend to work with.

Getting the IP address of a client making a request to your web application sounds like it should be embarrassingly simple.

I've been working with Datomic for years, and while I love its immutable, time-aware data model, deploying it has always been... an adventure.

...because someone had to bridge this particularly niche technological divide between JVM developer and the modern Linux desktop. wayland-java's a set of Java bindings for libwayland and wayland-protocols that lets you create Wayland client (and server!)

It's strange working in tech and being a parent.

If you've found yourself here through an old link to elusivetruth.net or binaryelysium.com, I should probably explain: those blogs no longer exist.

There's nothing quite like the panic that sets in when your home internet connection goes down right before an important client call.

Still relevant This article is over 5 years old, but oh boy, it is as relevant today as it was in 2018.

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, I consulted on a project developing a mobile application for citizen journalists.

Picture this (real!)

Want the yubikey+google 2-factor authentication solution?

"Photo (C) silverlunace.

As a coder I'm always on the lookout for interesting technologies to complement my toolset.

Internet technology is seeing an overall trend towards increased connectivity (always on), information sharing (openness), and most importantly, data existing in "the Cloud" (anywhere access).