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Welcome to Bit Powder, a virtual place for technology with low footprint: either low memory requirements, low energy consumption, or both. For example, this website runs on a special web server, costing only tens of MiB of memory. This includes an in-memory search index, for fast searching.

Tech used regularly:

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Latest blog
New website

2023-11-18 Today, I launched this website. Written in Rust with a focus on static error detection and handling. Read more about the techniques here.

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Blog

Articles about technical subjects, announcements, expertiences, etc.

Apps

Useful apps like genny (text generator), and butlery (small webserver).

Libraries

Libraries, e.g. expry (expression evaluator), hairy (templates), and libpep (pseudonimisation and encryption).

Docs

Docs for languages supported by the apps and libs of Bit Powder: markdowny version, hairy text templates, expry expressions, and Lua API.


Bernard

About me

This site is created and maintained by me, Bernard van Gastel. I like tech stuff, focusing on minimal resource usage (especially memory and energy), domotica, internet services, crypto protocols. Stuff like that. I'm actually a computer science researcher working on sustainability of computer programs, and diving into social inequality due to a growing digital divide. So basically I'm trying to make a significant (positive) impact on society. This aligns neatly with the current motto of my employer: the Radboud University uses the slogan 'a significant impact'. I also have a site focused on my academic work. This site is for my non-academic work, mainly programming. Have fun!