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Thoughts on software, AI, automation, and things I'm learning.
Every week, someone in Australia has a severe allergic reaction to food they thought was safe. I kept seeing this problem — and decided to build the solution. Here's the story behind AllergenIQ, a restaurant allergen matrix system I'm building out of Sydney.
Build a Slack bot that generates Google Meet links via a /meeting slash command — users get an instant meeting link without leaving Slack, powered by Python, Flask, and the Google Calendar API.
Build an AI-powered nutrition app that accepts food images and uses Google Gemini's multimodal AI to analyse nutritional content, estimate calories, and assess dietary balance — all in under 50 lines of Python.
Build a real-time gesture recognition system that lets users switch between webcam filters hands-free by showing different finger counts — using Python, OpenCV, and MediaPipe.
A tutorial demonstrating how to create a command-line sentiment analyzer using Python that classifies text as positive, negative, or neutral using two NLP libraries: TextBlob and VADER.
A comprehensive tutorial teaching developers how to build a full-stack web application using MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js (MERN), focusing on user authentication with JWT and displaying user data through React.