Blog

Posts on how each system was designed, what broke, and what I would change, plus video on YouTube.

• Blog post

  Building privileged-access case management for a law firm

  Modeling attorney-client privilege in a schema and a permission system. Published 2026-05-16

  • Laravel
  • Vue.js
  • AWS
  • MySQL
  • Inertia.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  Read the post: building privileged-access case management for a law firm
• Blog post

  Digitizing paper personnel records and moving a government IT team onto Git

  Replacing filing cabinets and Excel, and bringing a government IT team onto Git and code review. Published 2026-05-16

  • Laravel
  • Vue.js
  • SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • Java
  • Nginx
  Read the post: digitizing paper personnel records and moving a government IT team onto Git
• Blog post

  Transcribing confidential recordings entirely on-device

  Whisper via CTranslate2, a waveform-first editor, and an offline promise you can verify. Published 2026-05-16

  • Python
  • Whisper
  • CTranslate2
  • PyQt
  • NumPy
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• Blog post

  Building a multi-campus file and submissions platform for a university

  Modeling a university as a graph, with Go sidecars for uploads and PDF signing, and malware scanning on every upload. Published 2026-05-16

  • Laravel
  • Go
  • Vue.js
  • MySQL
  • Inertia.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • ONLYOFFICE
  Read the post: building a multi-campus file and submissions platform for a university
• Video

  YouTube channel @tophertips3387 (opens in a new tab)

  Videos on YouTube.