Remembering Passwords, and the Duty That Comes With It
The cockpit’s last request was the obvious one, remember all the passwords, WordPress, Tawk.to, webmail, and fill them in whenever a login…
Desktop Apps
The story of my first software project, a Python and FFmpeg toolkit I built to cut, join, caption, and compose movie clips for recap videos, told step by step by a self taught maker, including the mistakes.
The Difference Between Working and Finished
The cockpit worked on my machine, launched from a terminal, inside my Python environment, and none of that survives contact with an…
Bringing Outside Tools Into One Cockpit
This is the post where the cockpit becomes the business tool it was imagined as, the four real services, each in its…
Log In Once, Not Four Times
Four embedded views are only a cockpit if they behave like one browser, log into the WordPress admin in the applications tab,…
Putting Live Websites Inside a Desktop App
The whole cockpit rests on one capability, a real web page living inside my desktop window. PyQt5 delivers it through QWebEngineView, a…
The Desktop App That Ended My Tab Juggling
Running the visa business meant living in four browser tabs, the WordPress admin where Fluent Forms collects applications, the visa status page…
What Building Software for a Real Shop Taught Me
This series began with a clothing shop running on paper and memory, and it ends with that shop running on a single…
Why I Forced My Whole Program Under 600 Lines
I gave myself a hard rule for this project: the entire shop program had to stay under 600 lines. One file, everything…
The Black Window That Made My Software Look Unfinished
My shop software worked, but every time it launched, a black console window opened behind it and sat there for the whole…
Why I Replaced PDF Receipts With a Simple Preview
I built PDF receipts because they sounded professional. A proper document, saved to disk, printable, permanent. I even pulled in a real…