Projects

Dissertation. Suggested and supervised by: Dr Anil Madhavapeddy. The idea was to introduce more inter-instance sharing into the ActivityPub protocol (decentralised social networking). Then, the data will be available even when some nodes fail. That should result in a better user experience and encourage more people to host their own instances, making the network more decentralised.

This was done by caching public keys of users in a newly designed Lookup server and having a decentralised network of verifiers to provide trust. Then, Public key cryptography was used to check the integrity of data coming from other instances. I forked Mastodon and modified it to use this system to provide the promised benefits.

Initialy created as a tool for competitive programmers, it became a simpler alternative to VSCode's built-in build system. Features: compile the program, take input from source file comments and pass it to STDIN, print the output; run multiple times with different inputs, fully customisable build commands; code formatting and more. Install from here.

The official Signal chat application lacks some features that other platforms have. However, it's difficult to convince Signal team to implement those. Hence, I forked the official app and added: Messenger-like seen bubbles, message formatting (similar to Markdown) and fixed some bugs. Download from here.

The old Firefox port of a very useful HTML5 videospeed controller was abandoned, so I created mine and merged the newest updates and bug fixes from the original Chrome extension. Now, site exclusion should work and you can disable sites on which it causes performance issues. Download from here.