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Tecnick.com is strongly engaged in the development and maintenance of Open Source projects. Over the years we have contributed to several third-party Open Source projects and published many original ones. The actively maintained projects are listed first, followed by legacy and archived projects that are kept online for reference.

Actively Maintained

Go

nurago
Collection of high-quality GO (golang) packages and web-service project builder.
rpistat
Web-Service to collect system usage statistics.
rndpwd
Command line and Web Service Random Password Generator (example project).
variantkey
A reversible numerical encoding schema for human genetic variants + other genetic-related encodings.

PHP and Web Applications

TCExam
Web-based assessment software (e-exam Computer Based Testing - CBT) well suited for both Internet and intranet environments. TCExam replaces the old pencil-and-paper testing systems and simplifies the entire exam cycle.
web-cctray
Web-based dashboard for cctray.xml files generated by common CI/CD systems.

PHP Libraries

TCPDF
PHP class for generating PDF files on-the-fly without requiring external extensions.
tc-lib-pdf
PHP PDF Library (new generation of TCPDF).
tc-lib-barcode
PHP library to generate linear and bidimensional barcodes.
tc-lib-testrest
Library to test end-to-end RESTful services using Behat.
tc-lib-pdf-font
PHP library containing PDF font methods and utilities.
tc-lib-pdf-page
PHP library containing PDF page formats and definitions.
tc-lib-pdf-image
PHP library containing PDF Image methods.
tc-lib-unicode
PHP library containing Unicode methods.
tc-lib-pdf-parser
PHP library to parse PDF documents.
tc-lib-pdf-graph
PHP library containing PDF graphic and geometric methods.
tc-lib-unicode-data
PHP library containing UTF-8 font definitions.
tc-lib-pdf-encrypt
PHP library to encrypt data for PDF documents.
tc-lib-pdf-filter
PHP library to decode PDF compression and encryption filters.
tc-lib-file
PHP library to read byte-level data from files.
tc-lib-color
PHP library to manipulate various color representations.

Matlab/Octave

edgetools (SUSAN-based image edge detection)
SUSAN-based functions to detect image edges and their orientation.
iNEDI (improved New Edge-Directed Interpolation)
Non-linear image interpolation algorithm for high quality up-scaling of natural images.

Legacy and Archived

These projects are no longer actively developed but remain available for reference.

Websites

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Tecnick.com owns and manages a portfolio of technology-focused websites that provide open resources, practical tools, and technical documentation for developers, engineers, students, and digital makers.

technick.net - Electronics, Hardware, Software, Guides and Tools
allpinouts.org - Archive of cable and connectors pin-outs
circuitsarchive.org - Archive of Electronic Circuits Schematics
tcpdf.org - Open Source PHP class for generating PDF documents
tcexam.org - Open Source Computer-Based Assessment Software
testimages.org - Archive of free images for research
atletix.net - [IT] Guide per attività motoria ed atletica leggera
nicola.asuni.xyz - Nicola Asuni’s personal website
appunti.asuni.xyz - [IT] Appunti Universitari di Nicola Asuni

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Software Quality Is a System, Not an Act: Inside the Quality Pipeline of nurago

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every team says it cares about software quality. Few can point at the exact mechanisms that produce it.

Quality is not a final inspection step, and it is not a property you can bolt on before a release. It is the cumulative result of dozens of small, boring, automated decisions that either happen on every commit or do not happen at all.

That is what the title of this article means. An act is something a person performs at a moment in time: a QA phase before the release, a yearly security audit, a reviewer being especially careful on a good day. Acts depend on memory, time, and goodwill, and they are the first casualty of deadline pressure; their results start decaying the moment they end. A system is a standing structure that produces quality as its normal output: automated, continuous, redundant, and measured, regardless of who is busy that week. W. Edwards Deming made the underlying point about manufacturing decades ago: you cannot inspect quality into a product; you have to build it into the process that makes it.

TCPDF: 25 Years of Generating PDFs in PHP

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Build PHP applications for long enough, and sooner or later one of them will need to produce a PDF. An invoice, a shipping label, a course certificate, a signed contract, a monthly report. It is one of those unglamorous requirements that turns up on project after project, and it is rarely as simple as it first sounds.

I know, because I have been writing the code that does it for twenty-five years.

Stop Rewriting Go Service Boilerplate: Ship a Production-Ready API Faster with nurago

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every backend team says the same thing when starting a new service:

“This one will be lean.”

Then the infrastructure checklist arrives.

Configuration loading. Structured logging. Metrics. Retries. Health checks. Graceful shutdown. Validation. Cache layers. Cloud clients. Test utilities.

None of this is core business logic, but all of it is essential in production.

After seeing this pattern repeat across teams and projects, I consolidated battle-tested building blocks into one open-source project: nurago.

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Software Quality Is a System, Not an Act: Inside the Quality Pipeline of nurago

TCPDF: 25 Years of Generating PDFs in PHP

Stop Rewriting Go Service Boilerplate: Ship a Production-Ready API Faster with nurago