I shipped gni-compression to npm two days ago. One of the first questions I got (from myself, running benchmarks at midnight): does it work on anything other than chat data? Short answer: not yet. Long answer: I found out exactly why, and it led me somewhere more interesting than I expected. After the npm launch I ran GN against Silesia — the standard general text compression benchmark suite. Dick
I'm a fullstack web developer with 6 years of experience. Python, Rust, JS, databases, and APIs. That's my day job. I had never touched electronics. A few weeks ago, I decided to build CyberKey. The itch came from something boring at work: my VPN disconnects when I lock my computer, and I have to type a TOTP code several times a day. Unlock my phone, open the authenticator app, read the code, type