Mathew Chan articles - 23 total
Scheduled Vertical Scaling of AWS Aurora with EventBridge & Lambda in CloudFormation
Aurora under heavy write workloads The following is the database load metrics of our...
Resolving next-auth "redirect" error when used with Supabase
Recently users on my side-project website have been experiencing login issues with oAuth (Discord,...
Python Text Parsing Project: Furigana Inserter for Anki
Furigana Furigana is a Japanese reading aid for Kanji, which originally came from Chinese....
Budget Cloud Resources for Hobbyists
Background I'm currently running the following projects: Python Twitch Bot Python Flask...
Adding self-hosted analytics to your website for free with Umami
Background Google Analytics is free but there have been privacy concerns over the handling...
Migrating your Next.js app from Vercel to Netlify
I recently moved my website https://www.immersionkit.com from Vercel to Netlify because I reached the...
Quick way to serve static files with Netlify (100GB free)
Needed to publish a website and serve a few GB of images and audio data. Here are my findings and wha...
3 Projects I Plan to Release This Year
Introduction I plan to release 3 side projects to help people who are learning Japanese....
Making a Japanese Dictionary Lookup Tool with Sudachi in Python
Background I've been integrating a dictionary lookup tool in my recent project to help oth...
Playing MP3 Files in Python with Pydub and Pyaudio
Introduction Pyaudio allows us to play and record sounds with Python. To play MP3, however...
A Summary on React 2025 - a Modern SaaS Course
While I was looking for portfolio templates online, I found a sleek looking web portfolio by Lee Robi...
Making Tesseract Portable in MacOS with Runtime Linking
Background I like the plug and play experience. Recently, I developed a desktop app for pe...
How I hosted my website for free on Repl.it with Cloudflare DNS
So I bought a domain name on Google Domains and connected it to my freely hosted website on Repl.it....
5 Lessons I Learned from Launching My First Side Project
An anecdotal story of my first launch. 1. Locate your target audience Reddit A...
I launched my side project on Reddit. Now what?
This is a follow-up post to Tips on releasing a new app?...
Make Your Animal Crossing Character React to Your Gestures With Machine Learning
Overview By training models in Google's Teachable Machine to learn our gestures, we coul...
Tips on releasing a new app?
Hi, I'm on the verge of releasing my first hobby app that I think would have users apart from myself....
"Just make something" is not the best advice
Recently I bombed two interviews with system design, database, and scalability questions. My conclusi...
Intro to Nintendo Switch REST API
Overview Thanks to community effort, we can programmatically access Nintendo Switch App's...
Slack or Discord?
I used Slack extensively at my previous company and it seems quite a number of people would complain...
Figuring out a Balanced Diet at Wendy's with Python & PuLP
Overview We'll use Python to solve a linear programming problem of finding what items to e...
Using JavaScript to Preprocess Images for OCR
Preprocessing and OCR When we preprocess an image, we transform images to make them more O...
Using HTML Canvas to Snip Screenshots of Your Video
Create snippets of your browser and desktop applications for social media, text recognition, and othe...