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…
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.
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…
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…