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Originally published on soundleafapp.com SoundLeaf: A Beautiful iOS Home for Your Audiobookshelf Library So here’s the thing - I love audiobooks. There’s something weirdly satisfying about having someone tell you a story while you’re doing the dishes or stuck in traffic. But if you’re using Audiobookshelf for your self-hosted library? Finding a good iOS app has been… frustrating, to say the least. That’s why I built SoundLeaf. How This Happened This whole project started because my wife couldn’t get into the Audiobookshelf TestFlight beta. Her exact words were “I cannot live without audiobooks,” which felt just dramatic enough to be a call to action. I’m primarily a backend dev with zero mobile experience, but hey, how hard could it be? (Narrator: It was quite hard.) ...

My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It’s a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server After running for over a year, my solar-powered setup has processed 83,418 OCR requests and 48GB of images using nothing but Apple’s Vision framework and renewable energy. Most people toss their old iPhones in a drawer when they upgrade. Me? I turned mine into a server that saves me money while running completely off-grid. Note: The OCR processing serves a separate side project unrelated to this blog, maybe I’ll write about it later. ...

Most of us have a drawer (or a box) stuffed with old gadgets—a sort of tech graveyard we can’t quite bring ourselves to throw out. You know the one I’m talking about: that chaotic nest of tangled cables, forgotten adapters, and mysterious dongles that looks like a digital snake pit (yeah, exactly like that mess in the photo below). ...