Digitising Mum: Analog Ghosts, Bureaucracy, and a Dual-Engine OCR Pipeline
September 06, 2026
If I’ve been quiet lately, or if I’ve seemed perpetually distracted for the past twelve months, this is why. It’s almost the one-year anniversary of my mother’s death, and I am still drowning in paperwork. Grief, it turns out, is mostly just an endless series of administrative tasks.
The GeoCities Rebuild Worklog
February 06, 2022
Historical worklog: These are my 2021-2022 working notes for the GeoCities rebuild, complete with experiments, dead ends and destructive shell commands. Some command sequences and Apache configuration examples have lost their line breaks or contain escaped characters from the old page conversion. I have preserved those damaged fragments rather than...