№ 01an engineer's periodicalmedellín — ··:·· cot

I buildinterfacesthat move.

by Alexander Lopez A. — “akzu”, if you ask a Finn

Notes, experiments, and the occasional rant — written from a coffee house in Colombia.

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medellín · gmt-5
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3d printing
currently
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  1. Jun 15, 2025

    the stack behind this site

    — A tour of the choices that make akzu.dev what it is — Next.js 16, Bun, SQLite + Redis on Dokploy, and a riso-print aesthetic that fights the AI-slop look.    #meta2 min
  2. May 20, 2026

    Splines y easings: la matemática del cursor con cola

    — El cursor con cola dasheada de este sitio termina apoyado en una spline de Catmull-Rom convertida a Béziers cúbicas y un easing con rebote. Tres ecuaciones que llevaba años queriendo entender.    #matemáticas10 min
  3. May 16, 2026

    IPC y XPC en Swift: cómo construí un MCP para mi editor de vídeo

    — Comunicación entre procesos en macOS: del NSXPCConnection a un servidor MCP que expone acciones de edición de vídeo a Claude.    #swift6 min
  4. Feb 25, 2026

    Dokploy: cómo alojar múltiples proyectos en un mismo servidor

    — Cómo pasé mis proyectos de DigitalOcean a un VPS con Dokploy: Docker Swarm por debajo, Traefik enrutando todo, y lo que aprendí para que un solo servidor aguante varias aplicaciones.    #devops7 min

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In the lab

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fig. 01 — featuredcanvas · webgl

there is no chaos — only variables

— Equidistant lines through one center, dots cascading along each. Add lines, stagger the motion, flip to a 3D Fibonacci sphere.

open

fig. 02 — canvas

run · gun · jump

— A stickman side-scroller. Shoot grunts and turrets. Pop balloons for powers.

open

fig. 03 — audio · interactive

field notes on loudness

— Dual-mono, the number 0.707, and the strange math of human hearing. Eight ways to measure how loud a thing is.

open

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