You Really Can Scan a Book Quickly With High-Res Video and No Special Hardware
Film yourself turning the pages at 4K, then let OCR and an AI model turn the stills into a Markdown transcript. No scanner, no cutting the binding.
Lance Orner
Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle·Sparks, Nevada
Senior software engineer working in Python and Django on custom internal web applications and automation for enterprise-scale cloud asset management.
Writing
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
The family pumpkin chocolate chip cookie recipe
Restored Fire Info Websites
Camp Fire in 2018, Dixie Fire in 2021, Bug and Hawk Fires in 2026: three link sites I built while evacuated, two of them now restored
Coyote in the Neighborhood
Two clips from the driveway camera, a few days apart.
Getting Railroad Tycoon II Running on Modern Linux Without Steam
Updating libraries to run a 1998 Windows game
Keeping an Unofficial Emergency Site Honest
A follow-up on bugfireinfo.com. The hard part was never building it. It was deciding what the page would refuse to say.
Bespoke Websites for Emergencies are an Active Thing
What I learned building bugfireinfo.com in an afternoon during the Bug Fire near Reno, and the traffic it got.
Bug Fire Information
https://bugfireinfo.com/ The Bug Fire is causing evacuations in my neighborhood this afternoon, and I wrote this to gather all of the links I have - the evacuation map, shelters, air …
Enumerating Every Cribbage Deal
Claude and AI tools now make it possible to analyse problems that come up while playing cards at lunch. In Cribbage, given six dealt cards and you must discard two, what is the optimum play? …
Green Tomato Pickle Recipe Card
This is the Family Recipe for “Green Tomato Pickle”, which is mostly used as a topping for a pot of beans. Sweet, vinegary, and a bit of cloves. I went through some old files, …
