Dynamo as inbox, with a passkey
I built a single-page mail reader on top of the DynamoDB table my mail pipeline writes to. Three-pane layout (inbox list / messages / body), search…
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Designing a receipt matcher for my financial dashboard
Most of my transactions have a receipt sitting in Gmail somewhere. I just want to be able to click a charge in my finance dashboard and see the actual…
Read →Two weeks of silent torrent failures from one chown
Nothing new had landed in my movie library since the 4th of the month. Radarr looked healthy, the queue was just stuck at 321 items. Most of them showed…
Read →Sensor Offline alerts while traveling, twice
A safety app I run pinged me every hour with
Read →Use the Tailscale brew formula, not the cask
Quick note to past me: when installing Tailscale on a headless Mac, brew install tailscale (the formula). Not brew install --cask tailscale-app.
Read →Plaid to DynamoDB with read-time categorization
I wanted a personal-finance dashboard that I owned end-to-end. Plaid on one end, DynamoDB on the other, one Lambda in between, and categorization rules…
Read →A tiny SSO provider for personal subdomains
I run a handful of small web apps on subdomains — a finances dashboard, a map, a CV, a blog admin. Each had its own login. Each login was the same login…
Read →One Lambda serving a résumé and a blog, routed by Host header
I had a static résumé at one subdomain and wanted a blog at another. Two Lambdas felt absurd for what is functionally two HTML generators. So I put both…
Read →A personal location heatmap on cheap Lambda infrastructure
I had years of GPS pings in a database from a side project. I wanted to look at where I'd actually been on a map — heatmap of every ping, markers for the…
Read →Shipping 14 tiny iOS utilities in a batch
I shipped 14 small iOS utilities to App Store Connect in a batch. Subnet calculators, a WoL remote, a JSON pretty viewer, a regex tester, a ping monitor…
Read →FreezeGuard: a Windows UWF agent shipped as a service
I shipped a small side-project that wraps Windows' Unified Write Filter (UWF) — the feature that lets you
Read →An inventory app for a family craft business
A family member runs a craft-supply brand and needed a product inventory catalog. I built one weekend project: a public catalog page, an admin page, and…
Read →Making bootable Windows 98 floppies from a modern Mac
I wanted to install Windows 98 SE on a period-correct Pentium III without going through the usual ISO-to-USB workaround. That meant making the actual…
Read →The Google Drive S3 Round-About
Chester Frazier — automation engineer, builder, writer. Personal archive: essays, apps, photographs, music, and a working résumé.
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