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Thumbnailator
Thumbnailator is a thumbnail generation library for Java.
Thumbnailator produces high-quality thumbnails through a fluent interface to facilitate common thumbnail creation tasks. It is used in numerous commercial and open-source applications and has over 400,000 downloads from the Maven Central repository each month.
Thumbnailator is open-source software, distributed under the MIT license and is available on GitHub.
Other projects
Aside from current project, there’s a bunch of inactive projects from years ago. 😉 And also check out the project listing for more!
Blog
Below are excerpts of the three most recent blog articles. (To read more, jump to the blog section!)
Setting up an encrypted home (and swap) in Linux
There are a few options for encrypting data on storage devices. One that I’ve been interested in for a few years has been disk encryption. Now that I have a new laptop, there was a stronger justification for using one.
NVMe namespaces and complexities of flash controllers
Today, I was watching a video from Jeff Geerling on Raspberry Pi SSDs, he was using the nvme command to show information on the SSDs.
It’s a small world (of open source developers)
One of the libraries I found to be very useful is the SQLite JDBC Driver.
It’s an awesome library that allows accessing SQLite through JDBC by the connection string jdbc:sqlite:<database file>.