All Projects – Story Melange

Why Kubernetes Autoscaling Matters for ML and Embedded Developers

A hands-on demo exploring how Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaling behaves under real, chaotic load, and why this matters even for ML and embedded engineers.

Nov 21, 2025

C++ in your Browser. Is WebAssembly worth the effort?

5 min

My experiment of getting C++ delivered to the browser. Find out the why and see why client-side compute is cheap and expensive at the same time.

Nov 19, 2025

The Hidden Cost of “Magic” Schemas

4 min

When DRY turns to dust: what I learned after letting automation define my API contracts. A story about boundaries, intent, and why hand-written schemas age better than…

Nov 8, 2025

Can AI fix your shopping list?

9 min

Many shopping apps can create shopping lists. But many apps fail to correctly aggregate similar items. Let’s discover if AI can help.

Nov 4, 2025

When to use pydantic in your app?

6 min

“Should we wrap this in a BaseModel or just slap a @dataclass on it”? If that debate keeps popping up in code-reviews, this post is for you.

Oct 28, 2025

How LLMs help and don’t help developing software

14 min

There is a lot of debate if LLMs actually help software developers. Here’s what i learned rebuilding a simple image pipeline with regard to thinking, focus and failure in…

Oct 25, 2025

Page Segmentation: The easy and the hard way

13 min

An OCR scan of a whole page of a complex layout can be done two ways. The easy expensive one using an LLM or the more sophisticated one, which is harder to develop but…

Oct 24, 2025

Is training your own classifier really worth it?

3 min

I small update to the longer update. We use a YOLO-doclayout to decide if it is a text or image.

Oct 2, 2025

Text or Image

5 min

Running Document digitization pipelines can be expensive. Especially if you pay per API request. A good triage of pages is helping to reduce costs. In this notebook we…

Sep 29, 2025

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

12 min

Automatically generating thumbnails from pictures, can lead to bad crops or small details. Saliency Maps allow us to focus on the dominant object in a picture. I use…

Sep 5, 2025

How Neural Networks Hear Music

19 min

Did you ever wonder how Spotify, Tidal or YouTube work? Why are they suggesting a song to you?. Sometimes the suggestions are quite good. Come with we on a visual journey…

Jul 15, 2025

The Rebirth of the recipescanner - part 2

7 min

Back from the Dead, driven by AI Agent

Jul 7, 2025

The Rebirth of the recipescanner

6 min

Part I: What happened so far

Jul 3, 2025

Do you know the hidden paths of your code?

21 min

Most software is complex. Especially with AI-assisted coding, complexity can quickly run out of hands and turn into a nightmare. To never get lost again, let’s create the…

May 14, 2025

Street view game - hit the road

7 min

Hit the road allows you to sit back and enjoy the scenary when using Google street view. You can look around while you advance. Very much the same as you would in a car.

Apr 26, 2025

The road less travelled - from the dijkstras shortest path to the least visited path

5 min

What if you are not interested in getting as fast as possible from A to B. But you always search a new path. A python adventure to discover new places.

Mar 25, 2025

Which cheese are we eating?

11 min

Did you ever wonder what kind of cheese you should buy? They all look the same. And then the embarrasement when you can just point and say: that one. Meet the cheese…

Mar 13, 2025

Science2Art, a lesson in artful prompt engineering

11 min

How can physical equations be expressed in a paintings? In the beginning I only had a few ideas and the whole process was very effortful. Then in 2023, I discovered ChatGPT.…

Jan 15, 2025

How to fight computer eye strain

3 min

At least for your eyes and your back computer work puts a tremendous strain. This is what can help.

Dec 3, 2024