Ttrumpintrunpjack.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 3 min readYou don't need a local image-to-video pipeline to test two stillsI have lost more evenings to “just testing a pair of frames” than I have to actually publishing a clip. The usual path looks serious: clone a ComfyUI graph, pin a model, fight a CUDA wheel, wait for a00
Ttrumpintrunpjack.hashnode.dev·Aug 6 · 2 min readWhat I learned scoring free-text “name as many as you can” gamesThe scoring problem nobody warns you about “Name as many X as you can” is a great party mechanic and a terrible backend problem. Players don’t submit IDs. They submit strings: nicknames, maiden names,00
Ttrumpintrunpjack.hashnode.dev·Apr 11 · 2 min readWhat broke my first Web Audio prototype (and the one rule that fixed the game)I’ve been building a tiny browser game—working name Dialed Sound Game—where you hear a few short tones and try to match each frequency from memory. Nothing fancy on paper: a slider, a score, a daily r00
Ttrumpintrunpjack.hashnode.dev·Mar 9 · 1 min readShipped a Browser Tool to Strip AI Metadata From PhotosI've been seeing a lot of "AI Info" labels on Instagram lately. Not just on mine—friends who use AI upscalers or background removal have been hitting it too. The platforms read C2PA and related EXIF f00
Ttrumpintrunpjack.hashnode.dev·Feb 13 · 2 min readThe Math Behind a Gold Value Calculator: Purity, Weight Units, and Data StructuresBuilding a gold value calculator seems simple at first—weight × price × purity. But once you dig in, you run into a few domain details that can trip you up. Here's what I learned while building one. Karat vs. Pure Gold Gold purity is measured in kara...00
