What Building Something That Could See Taught Me
The face recognition app closes this blog’s current arc at the edge of what I could build, a system with eyes, judgment,…
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Every post, newest first. Each one is a step in a project I am building.
Turning Recognitions Into a Searchable Record
The cameras watch and the recogniser names, but the system’s actual product is memory, who passed, when, which door, with the image…
Handling Strangers, and the Honest Limits of Recognition
A recognition system is defined less by its matches than by its edges, what it does with a face it does not…
Running Two Cameras at Once Without Freezing
The requirement said two cameras, entry and exit, live at once, and a naive loop reading one camera then the other then…
How Face Recognition Actually Works, in Plain Words
Recognition sounds like magic until you see the mechanism, and the mechanism is beautifully plain, every face becomes a list of 128…
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
The reason a solo self-taught builder can make a working face recognition system in this decade is one open source library, named…
The First Time I Built Something That Could See
The final project in this arc is the most science-fiction sounding thing I have built, a desktop application that watches two cameras,…
Small Project, Lasting Lessons
The testimonial carousel is the smallest complete project in this blog, one widget, one job, and I am giving it a finale…
The Detail That Made the Reviews Feel Real
Deployed on real sites, the carousel met two requirements that no demo surfaces. Sites serving Urdu and Arabic speaking audiences needed testimonials…
Do Not Reinvent the Wheel, Use a Proven Library
The testimonial carousel’s most important code is code I did not write. The sliding, the touch gestures, the pagination dots, all come…