Fun Teaching My PC to See History
Building a computer vision system for medieval manuscripts, and what the model taught me about the fuzziness of historical categories.
Tech
Software projects, dev notes, and tools.
Building an MCP Server So AI Agents Can Manage My Website
Built an MCP server so AI agents can read, write, and verify website content directly. No more cached responses, no more false deployment claims.
How Hard Does a Longsword Hit? Building a HEMA Impact Tester
Building a device to measure how hard a longsword hits. ESP32, accelerometer, pendulum, and the question nobody in HEMA has answered with numbers.
Replacing WordPress with Laravel: One App to Rule Them All
Replacing WordPress and six separate subsites with a single Laravel 12 application. One codebase, one deploy, zero broken URLs.
From Medieval Manuscripts to Training Cards: The HEMA Data Pipeline
How I built a pipeline that turns 600-year-old medieval manuscripts into print-ready training cards with QR-linked digital content.
IP Monitor: A Discord Bot for Dynamic DNS
A Go app that monitors your external IP and updates a pinned Discord message when it changes. For home servers on dynamic IPs.
Automating Video Subtitles with Whisper and Go
A Go tool that automates subtitle generation using OpenAI Whisper. Extract audio, transcribe, embed subtitles. One command.
A Go Logger That Texts You When Things Break
A lightweight Go logging package that forwards important log messages to Telegram. Built because checking dashboards at 2am is nobody's idea of fun.
Keeping Legacy Excel Alive: Maintaining xlsReader for Go
Maintaining a Go library for reading legacy Excel binary files. Because .xls refuses to die.