From my research, there aren’t many great (free) American English -> British English translator sites out there. My goal was to create a decent one.
Introducing, Transatlantic Translator. This simple app translates the two styles of English, including variations of spellings and words. You may find this goodie here, as well as alongside the other goodies in my projects section, and also listed on my new tools website, for things not related to servers or web hosting.
Going in line with my recent theme of stock-prediction apps, I’d like to welcome you to MarketVoyant.
Using a custom prediction algorithm, you can enter any stock ticker to get a 24-hour predicted price, and the predicted gain/loss percentage.
You can access MarketVoyant here, or find it listed alongside my other widgets here.
Of course one of the reasons we all use AI is to get rich, right!? Okay, well, maybe some of us. Being someone who loves predicting the unpredictable—hence my Martingale Calculator—I have been for a little while now looking for the ultimate solution for predicting one of the largest gambling ventures on the planet.. stocks.
That’s why I’d like to present you with Stock Predictor Pro Suite! No, it’s nowhere near perfect; Yes, it’s a work-in-progress; Yes, it’s completely free; And yes, I may have went a little overboard on the naming. It’s my first release of the “product”, but if any of the four models get even ≥60%, it will be worth my while to continue supporting it.
You can find it listed amongst my other projects here, or access it directly here.
As I continue to produce new gadgets, but have limited time, I find it difficult to update my blog with posts about my creations. Instead, I’ve created a “My Projects” page that I will continue to update with old and new projects.
Currently, it’s fairly bare. But give me some time and this will become my central source of all of my projects.
I was tasked by another developer to create a “YouTube downloader” app, as many of the ones he used no longer worked. I accepted the challenge. As with most of my apps, I wanted this to be public, but I faced a challenge: Hosting videos on my server (ie. downloading the MP4 and offering as a link) would quickly utilize a ton of resources (bandwidth and disk space), and also have a possibility of copyright infringement by hosting a copyrighted video.
What I came up with is a YouTube downloader web app that handles the MP4 streaming directly by the web browser. The results are an app that allows you to download YouTube videos as MP4s from the browser’s Save As function. Interestingly enough, this works flawlessly with Chrome on Desktop and Safari on mobile, but not Firefox..
You can find my YouTube Video Downloader here: https://youtube.unlimitedweb.space
Most of you know that I enjoy coding and web development as hobbies in my free time. I love solving puzzles, and the intricate nature of programming instantly captivated me even before highschool. I was creating port scanners using Visual Basic 6, and installing LAMP on a Windows PC. What began as tinkering has developed into truly challenging myself to achieve the next level of “What can I make?”
I’ve been taking courses on LinkedIn and Udemy for some years now, alongside reading books and blogs. From C++ and Java, to React and Flask. I had even wanted to consider programming as the next step in my career. A year ago, AI really started to take wind. Chatbots accepted longer and longer input. Coding-specific LLMs were created.
Fast-forward to today’s AI, and we have something incredible. It took some upgrades to work out the bugs, and there’s still plenty of problems to encounter, but now I think we have real opportunities for developers, researchers, technicians, everyone. There’s GPT, and Grok, and now DeepSeek.. There’s Cursor, Bolt, and v0 for automated development.. There’s Gemini just given to users for free this week to incorporate within VS Code..
I can feel the exponential leaps in AI, so I decided to really push myself with “What can I make with AI?”
It took about a week to create the CLI implementation. It’s cross-platform: Windows, Linux, and Mac, and all three are downloadable on my site. In about another week I will be releasing the final product suite (all for free, of course).
I would like to introduce you to: Quintropy1x
Quintropy1x is a brand new AI-developed encryption cipher not based on any others in existence. With a 512-bit key and 16 salted-rounds operating on 128-byte blocks, Quintrophy1x integrates dynamic substitution, key-driven permutations, fractional bit mixing, and inter-block diffusion to create a quantum-proof cipher that’s stronger than AES-256-GCM.
Please check out the technical exposition on Quintropy1x here (as well as downloads):
Sometimes, I like to take a gander at Github‘s trending repos. Today, whilst doing such, I was surprised to see a Microsoft app titled Terminal, available as a fully open-sourced Git repo.
It wasn’t what I had originally thought it was–either Command Prompt or PowerShell. But, it had me wondering what other apps were open-source? So, I went a-browsing!
MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 source-code are available on Github. This archived piece of history is written in primarily assembly, with a little C, so it’s not for the faint of heart.
I’ve actually never heard of this one, but apparently it is a “Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js” written by Microsoft. Who knew!? It’s abandoned, and it’s domain is for sale, but it’s source code is up on Github.
This is the Calculator, as in the latest version that comes installed with Windows 10/11. I am surprised to see this treasure open-sourced. Check it out here. This one is a C++ beauty.
Another shocker, the latest and greatest Microsoft PowerShell is available open-source on Github. This command line utility comes preinstalled on Windows, but call also be installed on Linux and Mac.
I kind of already knew/assumed this was open-source, but it’s still cool to see. You can plunder through the huge repo on Github.
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu is a historical piece dating back to 5th century BC. Written by a Chinese military general, this book at it’s core is a disciplined approach of winning war. The book accounts for traversing various terrains, offensive and defensive battle tactics, manipulative approaches, fires, spies, and more.
The content in this book is dense in the sense of it being very valuable information, laid out numerically. I can imagine history and military classes not only reading from this book, but studying each point of every chapter, as each one plays it’s own significance in the strategic winning of war.
For me, most of the book is interesting, however is primarily filled with things that do not relate to my every day life. However, I do believe that some things can be applied, particularly in regard to the chapters speaking on knowledge for the general. Perhaps if someone is in some type of leadership role, they may be able to get more from this.
One of my favorite quotes from the book is:
The five dangerous faults that may affect a General:
1 – Recklessness, which leads to destruction
2 – Cowardice, which leads to capture
3 – A hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults
4 – A delicacy of honor, which is sensitive to shame
5 – Over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and troubleThese are the five besetting sins of a General, ruinous to the conduct of war.
From this book, I received an understanding of being quicker than the opponent, outsmarting them, and only starting battles that are already known victories. Being humane in war is important, and The Art of War teaches us that the quintessential victory is one without blood. It’s okay to avoid fighting, and pride bears fault to a compromised general.
I believe that the book is best summarized in this quote:
The different measures suited to the nine varieties of ground, the expediency of aggressive or defensive tactics, and the fundamental laws of human nature; These are things that must most certainly be studied.
It is the outcome of studying these principles that has produced The Art of War, by Sun Tzu.