Andryo Marzuki

A follow-up question on a 50,000 token conversation took three to five minutes before the first token appeared. Not the full answer. The first token. That is not a chatbot, it is a batch job, and you go and make a cup of coffee while it thinks.

remove.bg hands you a blurry preview, then asks for credits before it releases the full-resolution cut-out. Under the paywall it is a background-removal model and an upload box, nothing more. junkyard.sh has the same thing running entirely in your browser tab: full resolution, no upload, no account. It is one of 48 tools I have rebuilt that way, all client-side, all free.

In 2024, I was in the middle of a transition period in my life, moving from Auckland to Melbourne. I had a lot going on, and one of the outlets I leaned on was working on personal projects. One of those was a charting library called “charted.” The gimmick was that I wanted to make it a completely zero-dependency Python library, beautiful SVG graphs you can use directly instead of having to lean on third-party libraries.

If you’ve read the title of the post and actually clicked this post I’m going to make an assumption that you are already someone who has technical knowledge in this domain, as such, this post will be quite technical and go into some of the most important things I’ve learnt over the last eight years.

As a non-American observing America’s enthusiastic self-destructing, I find it utterly baffling that a man like Donald Trump could secure a second term. Over half the nation saw the individual who somehow achieved the rare feat of bankrupting not one but two casinos, which are famously designed to print money, as the best choice to lead the country. There’s definitely something wrong with America right?