I am Victor Felder and vhf are the initials I usually use on the Internet.
I'm a university trained computer scientist. As a software engineer, I worked in Big Data for a while before deciding to go back to designing, implementing and scaling web backends.
I spend a lot of time contributing to the open-source ecosystem by authoring open-source tools and software, creating open-source projects, writing technical articles, filing issues and fixing bugs in interesting projects.
You can get in touch by writing to contact@
this domain (draft.li
) or tweeting @_vhf
(opens new window). You can also stalk me on github: https://github.com/vhf (opens new window)
concise notes
→ my blog, I mostly write about technical things
→ as most bloggers do, I regret not writing more often
free programming books
→ a collection of free programming books featuring over 180 languages / topics / technologies in over 20 spoken languages
→ for a few year the most popular github repository with over 100.000 stars
→ I handed over this project to the Free Ebook Foundation
photographs
→ I have been practicing photography for years using different techniques, 35mm, medium format, digital
→ here is a series from a 2017 exhibition
confusable-homoglyphs
→ a Python 2/3 pip package to deal with unicode homoglyphs
→ useful to prevent homoglyph attacks and IDN homograph attacks
discontinued projects
v8 bailout reasons
→ a list of V8/Crankshaft bailout reasons
→ featuring reproductions, explanations and advices
monomorphist
→ a JavaScript performance companion
→ trace V8 optimization status of your functions