Before rebuilding my main app I wanted numbers instead of folklore. Not synthetic hello-worlds — the same five workloads my app actually does: render a DB-backed page, serve JSON, take events over ...

This is part four of four. Part three locked a recipe: detect three times, sample the text color from the brightest glyphs, neutralize strokes with a median patch, paint one constant rectangle at a...

This is part three of four. Part two ended with a new goal and three acceptance criteria: deterministic, auditable, honest. The watermark becomes one uniform translucent rectangle carrying its own ...

This is part two of four in the deployment tools series (part one: OpenShip). Where OpenShip wraps your box in a dashboard, a service catalog and a guided mail wizard, Dokku is the opposite bet: ev...

This is part two of four. Part one ended with a working pipeline that detected watermarks and let LaMa rebuild the background under them, and with three cracks in the approach: invented content, no...

My scraper pulls real estate listing images into MinIO. Every single one carries the host site’s watermark. The count was 113,998 when I first attacked this problem, and it has since grown to rough...

This is part one of a four part series on deployment management tools. I am putting four platforms through the same gauntlet on identical VirtualBox VMs — Ubuntu Jammy, 2 vCPU, host-only networking...

This story got a deeper rewrite as a four part series with diagrams and code. It starts at How do we remove watermarks. Part one ended with a locked recipe: detect the watermark three times, s...

This story got a deeper rewrite as a four part series with diagrams and code. It starts at How do we remove watermarks. This is part one of two about cleaning watermarks off scraped real estat...

My scraper pulled 113,998 real estate listing images into MinIO. Every one carries the host site’s watermark. I wanted them all clean at full resolution, and I wanted the true machine cost of that ...