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Parsing Korean Bank & Card Statements in the Browser With SheetJS

1d ago · 5 min read · Korean card companies export transaction data in wildly different formats. Some give you CSV with EUC-KR encoding. Others spit out XLSX with merged cells. A few use semicolons as delimiters because why not. I needed to parse all of them — in the brow...

I Replaced Cloud AI APIs With a $600 Mac Mini — Here's What Actually Works

2d ago · 5 min read · I've been running AI models locally on a Mac Mini M4 (64GB unified memory) for three months straight. Not for fun — this machine runs my entire business automation 24/7. Here's the honest breakdown of every model I've tested, what actually works, and...

How I Built a Self-Healing Automation System That Runs 24/7 Without Me

2d ago · 6 min read · My automation system crashed 47 times in the first week. Not because the code was bad. Because the real world is hostile to long-running processes. Tokens expire. APIs rate-limit you. DNS resolves wrong. Memory leaks. Browser tabs zombie out. SSH con...

I Published 27 Browser Games in One Month — Here's What Actually Happened

4d ago · 4 min read · I Published 27 Browser Games in One Month — Here's What Actually Happened Most indie devs spend months on one game. I shipped 27 in 30 days. Here's the honest breakdown of what worked, what flopped, and what I'd do differently. Why 27 Games? I wasn't...

I Built a "Study Cafe Finder" Because Googling 10 Blog Posts Every Time Was Annoying

Mar 17 · 5 min read · Every time I need a cafe to work from, I end up in the same loop: Open Google → search "cafes good for working near [area]" → click 5-6 blog posts → mentally cross-reference which ones have power outlets, decent wifi, and won't kick me out after an h...