The Ubunatic Library

❦ The Shelf

Two mdBooks, two voices: a playbook and a chronicle. Pick one up.

Click a book to sit down with it — or use ← → and Enter, Esc to put it back.

❦ Reference & Templates

The theme reference and starter template behind this library.

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The Style Codex

Every callout, table, figure, and ornament, with markup to copy and goldens that keep it honest.

Open reference → PDF

❦ The Deck Drawer

The books, compressed to slides — premium single-page HTML decks, compiled from the same markdown sources.

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Agentic Software Development

The Ubunatic Playbook

Play deck → PDF

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The Solo Fleet, Reviewed

CLI-first & local-first — strengths, limits, and what companies should steal

Play deck → PDF

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Agentic Development Manifesto

Core principles for co-creating software with AI

Play deck → PDF

❦ The Research Wing

Before the agentic era: a doctorate on one stubborn question — why send a million rows to a chart that is 400 pixels wide? The paper and the thesis now live on this shelf, each with its own deck; the journal version remains at its publisher.

Best of VLDB 2014

M4: A Visualization-Oriented Time Series Data Aggregation

PVLDB 7(10), 2014 · Jugel, Jerzak, Hackenbroich, Markl

Four tuples per pixel column — min, max, first, last — are enough for a pixel-perfect line chart. Data reduced by orders of magnitude, error: zero.

Live demo → Play deck Paper (PDF)

VDDA: Visualization-Driven Data Aggregation in Relational Databases

The VLDB Journal 25(1), 2016 · invited extended version

The full theory: data reduction operators that mimic the overplotting of every common chart type — in plain relational algebra, on any RDBMS.

Live demo → Play deck Article ↗

Visualization-Driven Data Aggregation

Dr.-Ing. thesis · data management & visualization

Rethinking data acquisition for visualization systems: let the chart tell the database what it can actually show.

Play deck → Thesis (PDF)