The First Tab a Shopkeeper Should See
There is a small decision in software that most people never notice, but it shapes the whole experience. What is the first…
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Every post, newest first. Each one is a step in a project I am building.
Choosing Python, a Desktop App, and SQLite for the Shop
Once I knew what the software had to do, I had to decide how to build it. This is the part where…
Why I Built Software for a Clothing Shop That Ran on Paper
A clothing shop runs on memory and paper, and that is exactly the problem. Prices in the owner’s head. Stock counted by…
What Building My First Video Tool Really Taught Me
This series started with one annoyed person cutting movie clips by hand, and it ends with a small workshop of tools: a…
Moving My Video Tool Into the Browser With FFmpeg and WebAssembly
A desktop tool has a wall around it: installation. To use mine you needed Python, FFmpeg on the PATH, and my script,…
When My Tool Got Too Slow, I Tried Learning Rust
My toolkit worked, and it was slow. Not broken slow, just heavy enough that every run broke my flow, and most of…
The Word Automatically Was Hiding Three Hard Problems
The plan sounded easy when I said it out loud. The tool joins the clips, then adds captions automatically. One sentence. But…
Composing the Final Video, and a Preview That Saved Me
The two tools I had built, one to break a movie into clips and one to join clips together, were really steps…
Building a Second Tool to Join Clips Into Finished Videos
By now I had a tool that could pull clips out of any movie. But that was only half of what I…
Making a Tkinter App Fit Any Screen With a Scrollable Layout
Every time a tool grows, the same thing happens. The screen fills up. I had added new modes and new output types,…