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# Making Things
A Video Player, Ten Years Later
I wrote Vido by hand with Vue 1 in the summer of 2016. Ten years later, version 2.0 is playing videos in my blog, with its own colors and a little avatar.
Koe: the browser subtitle extension that didn’t work out
Koe grew out of mimi as an attempt at general-purpose offline video captions. Which part of a long video to process, how to get its audio, and which player the captions belong to turned out to be difficult questions.
Putting AI-Translated Text Back into Manga Bubbles Wasn’t So Simple
Find the text, recognize the Japanese, translate it, and put it back. Column breaks and painted-over backgrounds can still make the page awkward to read.
Subtitles for whatever my computer is playing
mimi turns system audio into live captions and translations. Words can change after appearing, but waiting for them to settle can miss the scene. I’m still working on that trade-off.
Putting video frames together for AI
At a company AI hackathon, we combined video frames into a grid. It helped with debugging, but sampling could skip an order number that appeared only for a moment.
nido: Frontend Infrastructure on a Small Server
A small server and the sites my wife and I use led me to build nido. Frontend releases and SPA deployment grew into version history, shared scripts, pages, and site management.
Logging Expenses from Payment Screenshots
In January I connected an iPhone Shortcut to my ledger, X, to read a payment screenshot and let me confirm the entry.