Python
4 posts tagged Python.
A Self-Hosted Playlist Mirror for Seven Music Services
How I built SongMirror, an always-on playlist mirror for Spotify, TIDAL, Qobuz, Deezer, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music, plus a Jellyfin-ready local archive. It supports one-way sync, authoritative provider groups, and bidirectional N-way reconciliation behind ISRC-first matching, durable caches, and guarded removals.
Building a Local LLM-Powered Hybrid OCR Engine
How I built a privacy-first, fully offline OCR pipeline that pairs Surya's layout detection with local Vision Language Models (OlmOCR, GLM-OCR, Qwen3-VL) and a Needleman-Wunsch aligner — turning handwriting, forms, and scanned PDFs into pixel-perfect searchable documents on your own laptop.
From DOI to Markdown: A Two-Repo Pipeline for Faster Research
How DOI Paper Scraper and Papers-to-Markdown work together to convert academic papers into structured Markdown for better reading, search, and research productivity.
Scaling Education: A Strategy Pattern Approach to Grading at Scale
Deep dive into building a scalable autograder using Python, Java, and the Strategy Pattern. Learn how we can automate grading for hundreds of students using "Frankenstein" code stitching, dynamic rubrics, and local LLMs.
