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Save Gigabytes of Storage: Build a Batch Photo Resizer with iOS Shortcuts
Tired of huge photo files eating up your iPhone and iCloud storage? Here is a step-by-step guide to building a simple, automated iOS Shortcut that resizes your images to a web-friendly 1920px in seconds.
· 7 min read
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Step Into the Sunlight — Why 15 Minutes Outside Can Change Your Day
A lunchtime walk reminded me how powerful sunlight is. The science behind why stepping outside — even briefly — improves mood, sleep, focus, and long-term health.
· 10 min read
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Cloudflare WARP — The Free VPN That Isn't Really a VPN
How Cloudflare turned a DNS resolver into a full device tunnel, why they give it away for free, and what actually happens when you flip the switch.
· 17 min read
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I Wrote a Tool to Tame 15 Years of Photos — Here's How It Works
A Python CLI that deduplicates, downscales, converts, and classifies thousands of photos using perceptual hashing, Apple Vision, and HEIC — no cloud required.
· 32 min read
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Down the QR Rabbit Hole — A Weekend with Python & Pixels
What started as four lines of Python turned into a deep dive into QR code internals — history, encoding, error correction, and practical generation.
· 9 min read
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Freakonomics — When Economists Start Asking the Wrong Questions
A look at the book that made economics interesting by asking questions nobody else would: do sumo wrestlers cheat? why do drug dealers live with their moms? and what really caused the 1990s crime drop?
· 17 min read
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Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind — What We Eat Shapes How We Think
A look at Dr. Georgia Ede's argument that the modern diet is damaging our brains, and what the science of nutritional psychiatry says we can do about it.
· 12 min read