Knows

An explorable map of technologies, languages, tools, and domains that connect my projects, writing, work, and interests. Select a term to see how it relates to the rest and where it appears across the site.

Programming Language

Clojure

A functional Lisp studied through coursework, exercises, and a small final project.

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Natural Language

English

The primary language of this portfolio and most of its writing.

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Natural Language

German

A language used for Julian's published technical writing.

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Natural Language

Norwegian

A language Julian studies and teaches, connected to time spent in Norway.

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Technology

Terminal UI

Interactive interfaces built for the terminal — raw input handling, ANSI rendering, and restoring the screen on the way out.

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Domain

Accessibility

Interfaces that stay legible and operable — contrast solved rather than assumed, keyboard paths, and reduced-motion support.

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Domain

Language Learning

A long-running personal interest that includes learning and teaching languages.

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Domain

Infrastructure as Code

Defining reproducible cloud infrastructure through versioned configuration and automation.

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Domain

Vulnerability Management

Collecting, enriching, prioritizing, and publishing current vulnerability information.

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Dev Tooling

GitLab

An alternative Git hosting and CI platform.

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Dev Tooling

IntelliJ / JetBrains

The JetBrains IDE family, used chiefly for JVM work.

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Dev Tooling

Bash / Shell Scripting

Shell scripting for automation, glue code, and server administration.

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Dev Tooling

Make

A build and task runner used to script repeatable project commands.

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Dev Tooling

Gradle

A JVM build tool used as an alternative to Maven.

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Dev Tooling

pytest

The testing framework used for Python projects.

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JUnit

The testing framework used for Java projects.

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Ai Tooling

Codex

OpenAI's coding agent, used alongside other model-backed development tools.

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Ai Tooling

MCP

The Model Context Protocol, a standard interface for giving models access to tools and data.

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Ai Tooling

BGE-M3

A multilingual embedding model suited to mixed-language retrieval.

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Ai Tooling

CTranslate2

An inference engine for running transformer models efficiently on local hardware.

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Platform Os

macOS

A Unix-based desktop operating system used for day-to-day development.

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Platform Os

Windows

A desktop operating system, used alongside a Linux environment through WSL.

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Platform Os

WSL

The Windows Subsystem for Linux, running a Linux userland on a Windows host.

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Platform Os

Debian / Ubuntu

The Debian family of Linux distributions used for servers and virtual machines.

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Platform Os

Raspberry Pi

Single-board computers used for small always-on services and local inference.

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Infrastructure

Terraform

Infrastructure-as-code tooling used to provision and manage cloud resources.

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Infrastructure

Proxmox

A virtualisation platform used to run virtual machines and containers on self-hosted hardware.

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Infrastructure

Reverse Proxies

Fronting internal services with a single routed, TLS-terminating entry point.

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Infrastructure

Cloudflare

DNS, CDN, and edge services sitting in front of hosted sites.

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Infrastructure

Tailscale / WireGuard

A mesh VPN used to reach self-hosted services without exposing them publicly.

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Format Protocol

Typst

A markup-based typesetting system used for automated academic paper workflows.

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Format Protocol

YAML

The configuration and front matter format used across this site and its pipelines.

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Format Protocol

REST

The architectural style behind the HTTP APIs in Julian's backend projects.

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Format Protocol

LaTeX

A typesetting system for academic documents.

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Productivity

Obsidian

A local-first Markdown notes application.

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Productivity

TickTick

The task manager used for personal and project planning.

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Productivity

Jira

Issue and sprint tracking used in enterprise project workflows.

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Productivity

Confluence

A documentation and knowledge-base tool used alongside Jira.

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Productivity

Microsoft Fabric

A unified analytics and data platform used in an enterprise setting.

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