https://byroni.us Technical notes from Byron Wall on software development, data analysis, AI tooling, and engineering workflows. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:32:21 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/adding-useful-analytics-admin-panel https://byroni.us/blog/adding-useful-analytics-admin-panel How I added a private usage desk to Find My AI Fit, found the production analytics pipeline was empty, and connected traffic and events to the generated results that actually matter. Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/building-find-my-ai-fit https://byroni.us/blog/building-find-my-ai-fit How a long voice memo became a resume-to-AI opportunity map, then got simpler through repeated design, product, and branding passes in Codex. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/building-ai-project-intake-with-chatgpt-sites https://byroni.us/blog/building-ai-project-intake-with-chatgpt-sites A prompt-to-production experiment with ChatGPT Sites, including the design pass, the missing-data mistake, durable submissions, and a private admin view. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/run-a-tweet-to-ground-with-codex https://byroni.us/blog/run-a-tweet-to-ground-with-codex A post-work audit of giving Codex an alarming SSD-wear tweet, letting it choose and run the diagnostics, and checking whether the conclusion was actually earned. Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/building-a-force-directed-graph-one-desire-at-a-time https://byroni.us/blog/building-a-force-directed-graph-one-desire-at-a-time Build a readable graph by turning springs, flow, collision, and fringe behavior into small desires you can inspect one tick at a time. Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/learning-to-zoom-out-data-flow-visualization https://byroni.us/blog/learning-to-zoom-out-data-flow-visualization A visual log of the TSX Data Flow views that were too detailed, too flat, or too noisy—and the design rules emerging from a route-scoped topology view. Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/static-analysis-component-identity https://byroni.us/blog/static-analysis-component-identity A Suspense cycle exposed a component-identity problem in TSX Data Flow: merging render occurrences by name can manufacture paths that do not exist. Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/tuning-a-force-directed-graph-with-visible-controls https://byroni.us/blog/tuning-a-force-directed-graph-with-visible-controls A visual debugging log of turning a graph layout from a black box into a system I could step, inspect, reverse, and tune on screen. Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/photographing-hand-drawn-comics-for-printing https://byroni.us/blog/photographing-hand-drawn-comics-for-printing How I added photographed page layers, grayscale and black-and-white controls, and disk-backed image storage to a printable comic-book editor. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/introducing-coach-companion https://byroni.us/blog/introducing-coach-companion A soccer rotation planner built around the actual coaching job: get a fair first draft, make the judgment calls visible, and carry one clear plan to the field. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/what-coach-companion-changed-about-my-development-workflow https://byroni.us/blog/what-coach-companion-changed-about-my-development-workflow How a dictated product plan, a long browser QA pass, and repeated development friction turned into better scripts, repository rules, domain invariants, and verification defaults. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/letting-a-starter-learn-from-derived-projects https://byroni.us/blog/letting-a-starter-learn-from-derived-projects A practical workflow for reviewing agent threads, finding reusable improvements in projects derived from a common starter, and feeding the useful parts back into the next project. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/backdrop-filter-blank-code-blocks https://byroni.us/blog/backdrop-filter-blank-code-blocks A one-line backdrop blur on an invisible copy button made Chrome intermittently stop painting code-heavy MDX articles. The DOM stayed correct; the compositor did not. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/incremental-progress-for-static-analysis https://byroni.us/blog/incremental-progress-for-static-analysis How tsx-dataflow moved analysis into a worker thread and added real per-file progress over SSE, turning an apparently locked page into an inspectable workflow. Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/github-push-http-408 https://byroni.us/blog/github-push-http-408 A GitHub HTTPS push returned HTTP 408 after every byte arrived. The useful clues were in the curl trace, and the practical fix was to push the image objects in smaller batches. Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/product-first-plan-review https://byroni.us/blog/product-first-plan-review A practical way to review technical plans by asking product questions first, then letting the answers determine the architecture—especially when agents will write much of the implementation. Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/testing-open-graph-images-with-contact-sheets https://byroni.us/blog/testing-open-graph-images-with-contact-sheets I built a small contact-sheet workflow for comparing real OpenGraph route renders and catching visual failures that were easy to miss one image at a time. Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/typescript-solid-client-server-migration https://byroni.us/blog/typescript-solid-client-server-migration How I used a concrete Codex goal, a written migration plan, typed API contracts, and visual comparison to replace a mixed JavaScript and generated-HTML architecture with a smaller TypeScript and SolidJS application. Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/canvas-interactivity-basics https://byroni.us/blog/canvas-interactivity-basics An interactive guide to scene models, hit testing, hover overlays, and drag-pan camera math for canvas-based interfaces. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/codex-appshots-calendar-notes-workflow https://byroni.us/blog/codex-appshots-calendar-notes-workflow A lightweight workflow for turning information from one browser app into calendar entries and reference notes in another, using Codex and appshots as the coordination layer. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/pluck-inventory-viewport-time-debugging https://byroni.us/blog/pluck-inventory-viewport-time-debugging A Pluck debugging note about turning pan-and-zoom viewport history into a visual overlay: the canvas stays spatial, while time becomes a trace. Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/suspense-boundary-debug-overlay https://byroni.us/blog/suspense-boundary-debug-overlay A Pluck debugging note about wrapping Solid Suspense boundaries with dev-only controls so loading states can be inspected on demand. Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/comic-icon-iteration-contact-sheet https://byroni.us/blog/comic-icon-iteration-contact-sheet A short walkthrough of turning a generated PNG into SVG app icons by using a contact sheet to compare every iteration. Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/managing-openai-prompt-cache https://byroni.us/blog/managing-openai-prompt-cache How Video to Context structures repeated OpenAI Responses API calls so long transcript context can hit the prompt cache, report cached tokens, and make cost visible. Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/component-level-solid-suspense https://byroni.us/blog/component-level-solid-suspense How a SolidJS loading state got smoother by keeping the page shell mounted and moving resource reads behind local Suspense boundaries. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/understanding-solidjs-resources https://byroni.us/blog/understanding-solidjs-resources An interactive guide to how SolidJS resources interact with Suspense, resource.latest, derived accessors, and memoized reads. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/video-to-context-review-ui-llm-transcripts https://byroni.us/blog/video-to-context-review-ui-llm-transcripts How Video to Context grew from a transcription CLI into a local review workspace with sectioned transcripts, inline extracted evidence, and cost-aware LLM processing. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/packaging-llmly-for-pypi https://byroni.us/blog/packaging-llmly-for-pypi What it took to turn a local Flask usage viewer into a PyPI package, and why a small publish script makes versioning and token-based uploads much less error-prone. Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/pluck-capture-timing-loop https://byroni.us/blog/pluck-capture-timing-loop I optimized Pluck's Chrome extension capture loop by adding detailed timing traces and a repeatable diagnostic batch that made every speed experiment measurable. Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/video-to-context-codex-analysis-cli https://byroni.us/blog/video-to-context-codex-analysis-cli How I pushed Video to Context from transcription toward a Codex-backed analysis pipeline while keeping the CLI aimed at one command that just works. Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/voice-memos-video-to-context https://byroni.us/blog/voice-memos-video-to-context How I expanded a local screen-recording transcription CLI so one flag can process Apple Voice Memos into a reusable context folder. Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/debugging-stuffed-animal-background-removal https://byroni.us/blog/debugging-stuffed-animal-background-removal A practical walkthrough of tuning rembg for a stuffed-animal zoo: threshold sweeps, mask repair, visual contact sheets, and a regeneration path for production images. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/expanding-web-tables-for-copying https://byroni.us/blog/expanding-web-tables-for-copying I added an Alt-click table viewer to my Chrome extension after needing exact DNS record values from a page that made table text hard to copy. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/shared-expense-splitter https://byroni.us/blog/shared-expense-splitter A quick static browser tool for importing shared expenses, tracking payments, and turning the final balance into a simple settlement plan. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/pluck-extension-capture-speedup https://byroni.us/blog/pluck-extension-capture-speedup Notes from optimizing Pluck's real Chrome extension full-page capture path from slow scroll-settle loops to sub-four-second captures on recent sites. Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/chatgpt-image-pan-zoom https://byroni.us/blog/chatgpt-image-pan-zoom I wanted a faster way to inspect ChatGPT image generations, so I built a Chrome extension for browsing page images with pan, zoom, grids, and saved folders. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/libre-chat-coolify https://byroni.us/blog/libre-chat-coolify Notes from getting LibreChat running on Coolify: the env vars that matter, why the API serves the UI, and how to force upgrades to pull :latest. Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://byroni.us/blog/threaded-comments https://byroni.us/blog/threaded-comments I've built a good interface for viewing threaded comments on mobile interfaces. Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT