# Marco Nett

> Software architect and technical lead developer from Cologne, Germany.

Personal site and blog of Marco Nett, a software architect and technical lead developer from Cologne, Germany based in Cologne, Germany. The blog covers reverse engineering, low-level debugging, and web and systems development.

## Pages

- [About](https://marco-nett.de/about): Background, skills and contact details.
- [Imprint](https://marco-nett.de/imprint): Legal notice and contact.
- [Blog](https://marco-nett.de/blog): All posts.
- [RSS feed](https://marco-nett.de/blog/rss.xml): Subscribe to new posts.
- [CV (English, PDF)](https://marco-nett.de/cv.pdf)
- [CV (German, PDF)](https://marco-nett.de/cv_de.pdf)

## Blog posts

- [Measuring input latency on Linux: X11 vs Wayland, VRR, and DXVK](https://marco-nett.de/blog/measuring-input-latency-on-linux-x11-vs-wayland-vrr-dxvk): I built a device to measure end-to-end input latency, then used it to find out what actually moves the needle.
- [Getting an old doorbell onto Home Assistant, powered by the bell itself](https://marco-nett.de/blog/getting-an-old-doorbell-onto-home-assistant): Making an old electromechanical doorbell into available in Home Assistant via 433 MHz and ESPHome.
- [Why 'com_maxfps 250x' uncaps Quake Live's frame rate](https://marco-nett.de/blog/why-com_maxfps-250x-uncaps-quake-lives-frame-rate): A Ghidra dive into a buggy integer parser that lets a clamped cvar run the engine at ~1000 FPS.