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Articles about building software systems with an emphasis on practicality and maintainability.

Thermal Printers: The Cheapest and Most Flexible Labeling Solution You're Not Using

A $30 thermal printer, a $5 roll of continuous labels, and a few lines of JavaScript is all it takes to build a labeling system that handles anything from inventory bins to pantry jars.

Household Task Management That Actually Gets Used

Most task management systems fail at home because they're designed for work. I built one around how families actually assign, track, and complete household tasks.

Why I Built a Home Inventory System (And Why Notion Is the Database)

Every household has a knowledge problem. You own hundreds of things, stored in dozens of places, and the only index is your memory. I built a system to fix that.

Markdown Print: One-Command PDF Rendering and Printing from the Terminal

Two Claude Code skills that convert local Markdown files to A4 PDFs and send them to a Brother laser printer, all from a single voice command.

Notion Print: From Notion Page to Paper in One Step

Two Claude Code skills that fetch Notion pages, convert them to print-ready Markdown, and optionally send them straight to the printer.

Watch Action: GitHub Actions Monitoring with Audio Alerts

A Claude Code skill that polls GitHub Actions runs and fires macOS audio alerts when they complete, so you never miss a build result.