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.
Technical
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
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. Determining what data to keep updated.
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.
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? …
How to Quit vi
One of my first single-issue websites I built
Reboot
An old post from an old domain I had