Max Friedrich

Essays

Building reliable cellular broadband using VPNs

I built a cheaper, more reliable and private home internet connection using a Linux box, a VPS, and cellular modems. Cellular links are variable: peak-hour contention brings low bandwidth, jitter, packet loss, and brief outages. This post explores the problem and several ways to improve it.

TTS/STT Cheatsheat

A cheatsheat for Text to Speech and Speech to Text for common platforms.

UK Government Performance Over The Last Three Decades

A visualisation of the UK government's performance over the last three decades.

The News

My thoughts on the news media and how to find interesting new information.

Text formats: a barrier to accessibility.

A discussion of PDF's limmitations for accessibility.