note-taking · Moved notes from CherryTree to Joplin for better multi-device portability. migration · Part 1: Moving 46,000 notes from CherryTree to a self-hosted Joplin Server. migration · Part 2: Moving 40,000 more notes to Joplin in batches, and the 88 pictures that went missing. shipped · zero-knowledge credential vault → mydigitally note · A.I. didn't replace the job, it moved the work built · synced voiceover from one terminal, zero paid tools tool · nnn — browse & preview files without a mouse note-taking · Moved notes from CherryTree to Joplin for better multi-device portability. migration · Part 1: Moving 46,000 notes from CherryTree to a self-hosted Joplin Server. migration · Part 2: Moving 40,000 more notes to Joplin in batches, and the 88 pictures that went missing. shipped · zero-knowledge credential vault → mydigitally note · A.I. didn't replace the job, it moved the work built · synced voiceover from one terminal, zero paid tools tool · nnn — browse & preview files without a mouse

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Category: Engineering

Notes that aren’t tied to a single product — the tooling, process, and engineering decisions that carry across everything I build.

Some of this is workflow: how I run Claude Code sessions, what actually persists between them, which parts of a build belong in version control versus in my head. Some is practice: treating security as a design constraint rather than a pre-launch checklist, and picking up iOS development again after years focused on the web.

These entries tend to be the ones I write after something broke, which makes them more useful than the ones written while everything was working.

Rhythm Brown Box, Rebuilt

Rebuilding the four-track browser drum machine I built as a freeCodeCamp deliverable, and actually used to practice guitar against, gets a real audit and a v2 rebuild.

August 29, 2026 No Comments

How to Add a Synced Voiceover to Any Video (Free, No Editor Required)

You’ve got a video with no narration and a script you want timed to specific moments on screen. Here’s the whole path from nothing to a finished, muxed file — one terminal, zero paid tools.

August 28, 2026 No Comments

Claude Code Tricks: Resume Any Claude Code Session in One Command — Automatically

You’ve been deep in a Claude Code session for an hour, you close the terminal, and twenty minutes later you need to get back into that exact conversation. So you dig through claude –resume history, squint at a list of session IDs with no context, and hope you pick the right one. It’s a small tax, but it’s one you pay every single day.

August 28, 2026 No Comments

nnn: The Fastest Way to Browse Files (and Preview Images) From Your Terminal

A beginner’s guide to installing and using nnn on Fedora — plus how it compares to ranger and feh. Ever opened a graphical file manager just to glance at a folder of screenshots, and watched it take three full seconds to load? Terminal users solved this problem years ago.

August 27, 2026 No Comments

AI Didn’t Replace the Job. It Just Moved Where the Real Work Is.

I had a demo video with no narration and a stack of AI tools that could hand me a working script in about the time it takes to make coffee. I used them. I’m not going to pretend otherwise, and I’m not going to apologize for it either — that would be its own kind of dishonesty, and I’ve got no patience left for either the “AI wrote my whole app” victory laps

July 26, 2026 No Comments

A singer struggling to sing a song until the pitch got adjusted to his comfort level

A Singer’s Dilemma Solved by NostradmsX Video Pitch Shifter

Eventually I realized it wasn’t me. It was the key. The song wasn’t too hard — it was just too high. If I could nudge the whole thing down a few steps, it would land right inside the range I actually have.