How Upload_Tracker.Py Stops Double-Posting When You Re-Run A Batch
I run my whole asset pipeline on a 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM box with no GPU. A few months ago I had a batch of 40 sticker assets ready for Adobe Stock, Vect…
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Dry-Run Your Asset Pipeline: Validate Covers, Zips And CSVs On A 2 GB Server
Last March I lost a full evening to a header row. I had 60 JPGs ready for Adobe Stock, generated the CSV, uploaded the batch, and every single file…
OrderlyAI: Turning Messy Customer Messages into Orders with Local AI
OrderlyAI: Turning Messy Customer Messages into Orders with Local AI This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Sid…
I Wired Jev AI Into 3 Games — 2 Failures, 1 Success
Code on GitHub: LAMDiceBot , deguri , CrazyArcadeCopy . Live apps at lamdice.com and deguri.ai.kr . More posts at radarlog.kr . I added AI to my bot…
Edemy AI: Turning Online Learning into an Opportunity 🚀
Edemy AI: Turning Online Learning into an Opportunity 🚀 This is my submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 2 — Side Hustle .…
Why Two Python Packages And Stdlib Scripts Keep My AI Asset Costs Near Zero
Last spring I lost a whole evening to a CSV header. I had 40 assets ready for Adobe Stock, generated the metadata file myself in a spreadsheet, hit…
How A Local Prompt Engine Replaced Paid Generation Across Three Stock Platforms
Last March I checked my generation spend and closed the laptop. Three stock platforms, two paid image APIs, and a month where the credits cost more…
🏪 Ranchi Dukaan Pro — Predicting Stock Demand with TabPFN-TS
Smart Stock & Demand Predictor Can an AI forecast help a small shopkeeper make better stocking decisions? Small retailers have to decide what to…
I built an aurora forecast site on Cloudflare Workers and hit every limit they have
Every aurora app answers the wrong question. They show you Kp indexes, solar wind speed, magnetometer plots — great if you're a space-weather nerd.…
Telegram Channels Are Order Books: Volume Spikes Precede Price Moves
A Telegram channel is not a media feed. It is a market. The proof: the posts have prices in them, and the price lines have shape. I run a small unat…
I run a one-person "dark factory" of AI agents for $0.015 per task. Here is what broke.
I am a solo developer in Germany. In the evenings I build LexyBooster, a German vocabulary app with spaced repetition ( https://lexybooster.com ). A…
I Asked AI to Improve My Resume. It Started Asking Me for Numbers Instead.
The usual AI resume flow looks like this: old CV + job posting → LLM → improved CV It has a basic flaw. My old CV was already a heavily trimmed vers…
I Built a Small Home for the Interesting Internet
Most of the internet is now five websites wearing different fonts. You open a tab to find something interesting. Ten minutes later, you have watched…
I built a dashboard to run my job search
Job hunting is mostly a record-keeping problem dressed up as a motivation problem. Early on I would send out twenty applications and then have no id…
I Built a Fun Name-Based Love Calculator — Here's How It Works
A while back, I built a small side project called NameLoveCalculator — a simple tool that takes two names and generates a fun compatibility score. W…
The Blog Was the Shelf, the Lab Is the Workbench
I did not build joacod Lab because the internet needed another portfolio. It already has plenty of those, including some that are mostly screenshots…
I built a free concert tracker solo: 13 languages, 11,000 prerendered pages, one React codebase for iOS, Android and web
I go to a lot of concerts. In January 2025 I got tired of a spreadsheet that could not tell me which opener I had seen twice, so I started building…
Capturing exact DOM elements in a Chrome MV3 extension: DPR, sticky elements, and redaction before pixels exist
Every screenshot extension workflow I've used shares the same flaw: you take a picture of the viewport, then crop. The capture is never of the thing…
Stencil My Tattoo: Turning Tattoo References into Printable Stencil Drafts with AI
Designing a tattoo is not only about finding a beautiful reference image. The harder part is turning that reference into something a tattoo artist c…
Make Your Weekend Agent List Unknowns First
You sit down Friday with one messy GitHub issue. You want a usable plan before Monday morning. You paste the text into a chat agent. The reply looks…
My broker said I'd made $18,000. The number was an aggregate over a query nobody could show me.
The number sat on my broker's home screen, green, precise to two decimals. Roughly eighteen thousand dollars, earned from investing, over the whole…
The Freedom of Pet Projects
In June, I learned how to change diapers and convinced myself that 5 hours of sleep is a luxury. Somewhere in between, I also shipped iOS for Kombin…
Amazon S3 Hands-On Practicals
I recently worked through a hands-on Amazon S3 practical series covering the features I would actually expect to use while working with AWS storage.…
A Pet Project: Zodiacl
It’s been awhile since I typed some words around here. Right around the World Cup was the last time, from what I can see. I really didn’t want to li…
I Ran 50 Emails Through AI Agents. 12 SMTP Bounces Hit.
ai, #api, #security, #sideprojects The 50-email experiment On August 12, I handed an AI agent a CSV of fifty email addresses and an SMTP tool. Thirt…
How I Built a No-App Photo Sharing Platform Using Just QR Codes and Browser Cameras
Last summer, I was at my cousin's wedding. 200 guests, one professional photographer, and exactly zero way for anyone else to share the photos they…
the sea is calling
i had a bit of an existential crisis with SDE career track. it's a bubble. not bursting fast enough. so i am off that ship until further notice. i h…
I built a quiz-driven gift recommender (Next.js + Cloudflare Pages)
Most "AI gift finders" are a search box with a chatbot glued on. I wanted to build something different — a quiz-driven gift recommender that ranks r…
Your Side Project Doesn't Need a Public IP. Here's the Proof.
I used to think every server needed a public IP. It's just... how servers work, right? Then I moved my side project , a small Node.js API with a Pos…
I Built an IP Geo Phone Server — 5 Things I Actually Used
I Built an IP Geo Phone Server — 5 Things I Actually Used python, #api, #sideprojects, #security The cheapest server I own isn't a Pi or a refurbish…