One API Call Changed Everything
Sunday 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 moreThe Chronicle
Thoughts, tutorials, and tales from the digital frontier. Lessons learned and wisdom shared.
When the Cleanup Code Becomes the Project
Tesseract 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 moreThe OCR Rabbit Hole
Long 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 moreWhy I Built MoveMyRecipes.com
After 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 moreThe Developer Who Held All the Cards
A 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 moreIt's Your Fault!
An examination of workplace blame culture in software development. The blame game does nothing but hurt other developers.
Read moreMistakes Happen
How developers should handle errors transparently rather than concealing them. Admitting mistakes builds team trust.
Read moreMy Way or the Highway
There truly is no 'one right answer' in software development. A critique of rigid programming approaches.
Read moreHow I Used CheckItOn.Us to Monitor my Internal Services
A technical tutorial demonstrating how to create custom monitoring scripts for database replication health.
Read moreWhy Should I Use a Framework?
Defending the use of established frameworks over custom solutions, highlighting community support and maintainability.
Read moreStay on the Path
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