1+ week, 2+ day ago   (454+ words) Storage and cache multiplication change this decision more than the crop algorithm does. Short answer: choose fixed resize as the default for course thumbnail pipelines, then enable content-aware crop only for asset classes that fail a framing eval. That gives…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (295+ words) So I did what any developer would do: I built a tool for it. The app itself is completely stateless: every dependency (database, auth, AI, storage, payments) lives outside the app. That's the single most important architecture decision, and it…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (100+ words) To fix this, I built Momento — an instant, browser-based digital disposable camera and live event gallery that works with zero app downloads and zero account creation. Here is how the architecture and technical pipeline works under the hood. Instead, we…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (388+ words) This post is about the plugin I built to fix that for my own sites, and the handful of implementation details that turned out to matter more than expected. Doing this with a vision-capable LLM is trivial in principle — send…...