Benchmarking Neo4j

Posted on May 19, 2019 in coding-fun • 4 min read

Introduction

Neo4j is a graph database implementation. It's used for creating large graphs to efficiently create and query various relationships. For an explanation on the differences between graph databases and relational database (like MySQL and PostgreSQL), see https://neo4j.com/developer/graph-db-vs-rdbms/.

I required Neo4j for one of my projects …


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Converting Protonmail's VCF files to import to phone

Posted on May 19, 2019 in coding-fun • 1 min read

Introduction

Protonmail captured my interest a few years ago as privacy-focused alternative to Gmail.

But one of the problems I faced was my dependence on Google's Contacts service which kept all of my contacts for me stored on my Android device. I wanted to move away from this as well …


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Markov Text Generator

Posted on January 16, 2016 in coding-fun • 2 min read

For fun, I've recently created my own Markov text generator.

Explanation

A Markov text generator takes a piece of text as input and outputs new text that is seemingly random. It may even make syntactical and/or semantic sense if properly seeded with input text.

It accomplishes this by splitting …


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