Essay
How to design and implement unmanageable and insecure systems
A deliberately sharp piece on bad systems design that still reads like a signature article from this archive.
What this is
A long-lived document archive rather than a polished publication portal.
What to expect
PDFs, HTML essays, Dutch-language columns, and technical writing from several different periods of the site.
Where to start
If you only open a few items, start with zenhowto, OnProxyTunnel, ComalHasBeenSetFree, and ntpass.
Featured
Articles that still stand out
Project article
OnProxyTunnel.pdf
The library copy of the proxytunnel article, preserved alongside the project page.
Language project
ComalHasBeenSetFree.pdf
An article tied to OpenComal and its release into the open.
Security
ntpass.pdf
An older NT password security article that kept circulating long after its first publication.
Special features
Original highlighted set
The original page singled these out as personal favorites.
Columns
Java and Doctor Unix
Java columns
Dutch-language software magazine writing
A run of Java columns written for Dutch Software Release Magazine, covering topics from applets and IDEs to C#, tooling, and the human side of programming.
Doctor Unix
Alternate identity, same voice
A set of columns written under the Doctor Unix persona, many of them originally published through the NLUUG e-zine orbit and preserved here as PDFs.
Archive quality
Preserved as documents, not remastered
These pieces stay in their historical formats rather than being republished into a uniform editorial shell.
Java columns
Collected PDFs
Doctor Unix
Preserved PDFs
Various
Miscellaneous documents
The original page described this section as documents about nothing and everything. That remains accurate.