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…
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.
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…
Turning the Database Into Stock, Sales, and Real Profit
A database helps nobody until you make it readable. After weeks of billing, cloth_store.db was filling with sales the shop had never…
Making the Counter Fast With Real Product Search
A shop counter is a place where seconds matter. A customer is standing there, money in hand, maybe a line forming behind…
Cutting the Fields and Columns a Clothing Shop Did Not Need
When I first built the product form, I gave it everything a shop product could possibly have. Category. Color. Size. Name. Price.…
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…
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…