anders lee

anders lee

Nov 14

Recasting a 15-second meme with five faces: why the last two seconds needed their own pass

#ai #video #ffmpeg #webdev

5 min read

anders lee

Nov 14

"Stop shouldn't mean close: ending a live-caption session in a Manifest V3 extension without losing the last sentence"

#javascript #webdev #websocket #extensions

6 min read

anders lee

Nov 13

A 50-state car sales tax table doesn't fit in one "rate" column

#opendata #datascience #webdev #database

4 min read

anders lee

Nov 12

"Rebuilding all 405 rows of a steel pipe weight table from one formula: which constant did they use?"

#python #datascience #engineering #testing

4 min read

anders lee

Nov 11

US duty rates are not numbers: parsing 747 rate formats from the tariff schedule in Python

#python #data #parsing #opendata

5 min read

anders lee

Nov 10

A Texas county's tax rate was doubled in the state file, and two of my three checks passed it

#python #datascience #opendata #pandas

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6 min read

anders lee

Nov 9

A cron job adds a new language to my Next.js app every three days

#nextjs #i18n #ai #automation

5 min read

anders lee

Nov 8

PDF templates that fill an e-ink screen exactly (reMarkable, Supernote, Kindle Scribe)

#javascript #pdf #productivity #tutorial

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4 min read

anders lee

Nov 8

Translating SRT subtitles with an LLM without breaking the timings

#javascript #ai #webdev #tutorial

4 min read

anders lee

Nov 7

Isometric and hexagon grids for print: three line families, one lattice and a 3 that bites

#javascript #geometry #svg #gamedev

5 min read

anders lee

Nov 7

"exec format error": images built on an Apple Silicon Mac, running on an x86 server

#docker #macos #arm64 #devops

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3 min read

anders lee

Nov 6

Localizing a static site into 6 languages at build time with an LLM — and validating every string

#webdev #javascript #i18n #ai

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5 min read

anders lee

Nov 6

Four things older Docker tutorials get wrong on Docker 29

#docker #devops #linux #beginners

3 min read

anders lee

Nov 6

Ranking 1,700 AI tools by popularity with free data — Tranco + Chrome UX Report instead of SimilarWeb

#webdev #javascript #datascience #ai

6 min read

anders lee

Nov 5

That HS code from your supplier (or ChatGPT) might not exist: validating US HTS codes in Python

#python #ai #opensource #ecommerce

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4 min read

anders lee

Nov 4

postgres:18 exits right after starting? The data directory moved

#docker #postgres #database #devops

3 min read

anders lee

Nov 3

Drawing semi-log and log-log graph paper: the math behind the lines

#javascript #math #svg #tutorial

5 min read

anders lee

Nov 2

"Shipping a data-heavy browser extension: offline tables, daily updates, no host permissions"

#javascript #webdev #chrome #extensions

4 min read

anders lee

Oct 30

Car sales tax in five US states, as pure functions (and the rules that look alike but aren't)

#typescript #testing #webdev #opensource

5 min read

anders lee

Oct 28

"exec /entrypoint.sh: no such file or directory" (but the file is right there)

#docker #windows #bash #devops

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3 min read

anders lee

Oct 25

Five production bugs from running a 20-language AI song generator on Next.js

#nextjs #cloudflare #webdev #postgres

4 min read

anders lee

Oct 24

Modeling Florida's Amendment 3 property tax exemption, county by county, in Python

#python #datascience #opendata #civictech

3 min read

anders lee

Oct 22

Capturing tab audio with getDisplayMedia: the parts the docs gloss over

#webdev #javascript #webaudio #tutorial

4 min read

anders lee

Oct 22

Building real-time speech translation in the browser: what actually mattered

#webdev #javascript #ai #webaudio

4 min read

anders lee

Oct 22

Three Docker Compose health checks that say "healthy" too early (tested on Docker 29)

#docker #devops #mysql #postgres

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4 min read

anders lee

Oct 17

A 180-page reference site for the price of a domain (Astro + Cloudflare Workers)

#astro #cloudflare #webdev #seo

3 min read

anders lee

Oct 15

What I learned turning government property tax spreadsheets into one county dataset

#python #datascience #opendata #pandas

4 min read

anders lee

Oct 12

Writing a PDF by hand: graph paper that prints at exactly the right size

#javascript #pdf #webdev #tutorial

5 min read

anders lee

Oct 10

Three equations that found misprints in a national steel standard

#python #datascience #engineering #opendata

1

4 min read

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Recasting a 15-second meme with five faces: why the last two seconds needed their own pass

"Stop shouldn't mean close: ending a live-caption session in a Manifest V3 extension without losing the last sentence"

A 50-state car sales tax table doesn't fit in one "rate" column

"Rebuilding all 405 rows of a steel pipe weight table from one formula: which constant did they use?"

US duty rates are not numbers: parsing 747 rate formats from the tariff schedule in Python

A Texas county's tax rate was doubled in the state file, and two of my three checks passed it

A cron job adds a new language to my Next.js app every three days

PDF templates that fill an e-ink screen exactly (reMarkable, Supernote, Kindle Scribe)

Translating SRT subtitles with an LLM without breaking the timings

Isometric and hexagon grids for print: three line families, one lattice and a 3 that bites

"exec format error": images built on an Apple Silicon Mac, running on an x86 server

Localizing a static site into 6 languages at build time with an LLM — and validating every string

Four things older Docker tutorials get wrong on Docker 29

Ranking 1,700 AI tools by popularity with free data — Tranco + Chrome UX Report instead of SimilarWeb

That HS code from your supplier (or ChatGPT) might not exist: validating US HTS codes in Python

postgres:18 exits right after starting? The data directory moved

Drawing semi-log and log-log graph paper: the math behind the lines

"Shipping a data-heavy browser extension: offline tables, daily updates, no host permissions"

Car sales tax in five US states, as pure functions (and the rules that look alike but aren't)

"exec /entrypoint.sh: no such file or directory" (but the file is right there)

Five production bugs from running a 20-language AI song generator on Next.js

Modeling Florida's Amendment 3 property tax exemption, county by county, in Python

Capturing tab audio with getDisplayMedia: the parts the docs gloss over

Building real-time speech translation in the browser: what actually mattered

Three Docker Compose health checks that say "healthy" too early (tested on Docker 29)

A 180-page reference site for the price of a domain (Astro + Cloudflare Workers)

What I learned turning government property tax spreadsheets into one county dataset

Writing a PDF by hand: graph paper that prints at exactly the right size

Three equations that found misprints in a national steel standard