Tools
Posts tagged “Tools”.
- Markdown to PDF Is a Swamp
"Convert this Markdown to a PDF" sounds like a solved problem — a one-liner. It is a swamp: no standard pipeline, a dead-but-ubiquitous engine at its center, and a workflow where you only find out the PDF is wrong after you've made it. I built a tool that doesn't drain the swamp, just hands you an honest map.
- Not Every FLAC Is Lossless
A file's extension is a label, not a promise. Self-hosting a music library, I kept running into FLACs that were lossy files in disguise and 'hi-res' tracks upsampled from a CD. The metadata lies; the spectrogram doesn't. So I built a tool to tell them apart.
- The Missing Middle in Data Tooling
Enterprise platforms on one end, a pile of interchangeable SQL boxes on the other. The useful middle is mostly empty — and not because it is hard to build.