I got tired of a very small, very specific kind of annoyance.
You need to do something simple. Shrink a photo so it will actually send. Sort out a PDF before you email it. You find an app, open it, and before it does anything it wants you to create an account. Or it quietly sends your file off to a server somewhere, does the work there, and sends it back.
For a lot of people tha...
Tukri is a point-of-sale app for small shops in Bangladesh. Shopkeepers asked for receipts to come straight out of a cheap Bluetooth thermal printer when they tap Print, with no print window in between. This is how we did it from a web app, and the traps we hit on the way.
Cheap 58 mm and 80 mm receipt printers speak ESC/POS. Their built...
Todos conocemos la escena:
Estas en una previa, reunion o fiesta en casa con 10 o 15 amigos y alguien propone jugar a Verdad o Reto o el Juego de la Botella.
De repente empieza la incomodidad:
Every day, millions of people search for tiny jobs: merge two PDFs, compress a photo for a form, check an electricity bill, convert JPG to PNG. Most tool sites make them upload private files to a stranger's server, watch ads, and sign up for the privilege.
I wanted the opposite, so I built RozKaTool (http...
Snowflake is pitching a simple idea: instead of you going to the data, always-on bots go to work for you — and keep working while you are away.
That sounds useful. It also sounds like the kind of claim that needs to be read carefully, because not everything in this announcement is available in the same way, at the same time, to everyone.
This is an honest explainer, not a buyer-...
A touch switch board has to stay powered while the light is off. If there is no neutral at the box, there is only one place that power can come from: through the load. That single constraint explains the faint glow, the relay buzz, and the sluggish touch response that people report on multi-gang touch plates, and it gets harder as you add gangs.