Every summer at Fabulous Village, the same question gets asked at reception a hundred times a day: “Which way to pitch 1104?” The official site plan is a lovely piece of graphic design, but it’s not a map you can search. So I built one — a small web app where you type in a…
Instagram has a “Collections” feature — you can save reels and posts into named folders. Handy for yourself. Useless for anyone else, because there’s no way to share a collection with another person. No link, no export, nothing. I wanted to share a list of handstand, acro and Berlin reels with a few people without…
A few weeks ago I found a .doc file on an old backup drive. Created in 1994. Password protected. An old document I had written myself — and I had absolutely no idea what the password was anymore. Here’s how I got it back. Disclaimer: These techniques are for recovering your own files only. Applying…
I had a folder with thousands of PDFs. Invoices next to yoga manuals next to scanned maps next to bank statements. Filenames like xkbf2291.pdf and 00183774.pdf. No structure whatsoever. Manually sorting them wasn’t happening. So I built a Python script that reads each file, sends the content to Claude, and moves everything into topic folders…
As a hospitality and leisure professional, I hate handwritten notes. So the first thing I do when I work in a new place is make a door sign like “We’ll be back in a minute.” But what if your colleague from another campsite sees it and wants one too? And then their colleague? I’m too…