Thoughts, tutorials, and tales from the digital frontier. Lessons learned and wisdom shared.
Every recipe app I tried was designed for the same thing: browsing. Scrolling. Saving links. They were good at collecting recipes and terrible at the part where you actually cook them. Cooking isn't reading. Cooking is a sequence of timed actions where your hands are busy and your attention is split between three things on the stove.
Read morePeople hear "I replaced my OCR pipeline with a vision model" and the first thing they ask about is cost. Fair question. I assumed it would be expensive too. Under a penny per document.
Read moreSunday morning. I'm close to just giving up and typing everything by hand. But I want to try one more thing. Instead of OCR to get characters, what if I just ask a vision model what the document says?
Read moreTesseract can't handle the handwriting. Time to spend some money. AWS Textract has built-in handwriting detection. It's better. But "better" and "good enough" are different things.
Read moreLong weekend. I've got a pile of handwritten documents that need to become structured data. Should be a weekend project. OCR exists, it's been around forever, this is a solved problem. Right?
Read moreAfter years of collecting and entering recipes, I had thousands of them. And when I looked at what it would actually take to switch apps, the only real option was one recipe at a time. Manually. Every single one. That's not a migration path. That's vendor lock-in.
Read moreA friend hired a developer to build their app. Six months and a lot of red flags later, they asked me to take a look. What I found is a cautionary tale every non-technical founder needs to hear.
Read moreAn examination of workplace blame culture in software development. The blame game does nothing but hurt other developers.
Read moreHow developers should handle errors transparently rather than concealing them. Admitting mistakes builds team trust.
Read moreThere truly is no 'one right answer' in software development. A critique of rigid programming approaches.
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