Charles Zhang articles - 62 total
Whisper Transcriber - v0.5 Usage Note - Run Whisper Models Locally | Desktop AI Audio Transcription
Overview Whisper Transcriber transcribes audio into text using the amazing Whisper...
DevLog 20250820: Towards Unified Chat Gateway
DevLog 20250820: Towards Unified Chat Gateway Overview Ever since the general...
DevLog 20250820: Rebuilding Our Website - From React App to Lightweight, Low-Maintenance HTML
We're a tiny startup with one primary job: build Divooka - the general-purpose visual programming...
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[Article] Divooka, Where We Are
Many years from now, when power users, researchers, and historians look at this article, they will...
DevLog 20250816: Divooka Language Specification
Overview A Divooka script file ("Divooka Document") is a data container of node...
DevLog 20250807: Microservice for Cloud Scheduling (and Running)
Motivation When working with routine tasks, it's convenient to have some form of automatic...
DevLog 20250806: "Change Version" - File Changes History-Only Version Control for Binary Assets
Overview cv is a command-line utility I originally used for personal Unreal Engine...
DevLog 20250805: Divooka Node Graph File Formats
Preamble When I first envisioned Divooka, I aimed for open source, open file formats, and...
DevLog 20250804: Simple File Uploading Service (A Request Unfulfilled)
Revision: 001 (This post identifies a problem and is not generating a solution for it yet.) ...
Dev.to UI Update: What's Going On?!
(Update: 20250804) Salute🫡 To Dev.To Dev Team! The dev team addressed the issue within an...
DevLog 2025801: Procedural Context Type
Overview In our pursuit to challenge existing visual paradigms and establish the...
DevLog 20250729: Procedural Terrain Generation
Intro Procedural generation, often called algorithmic art, is the process of turning code...
Release Note: Fantasy Planet Painter v1.1
Introduction Fantasy Planet Painter is a creative software tool designed for building...
DevLog 20250728: Multi-graph Navigation GUI
Overview From the beginning, we've expected Divooka documents to support multiple graphs...
DevLog 20250726: C# is the way, Python gets things done, JavaScript is convenient
Throughout my day-to-day life, both personal and professional, there is a need for lots of "small"...
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[Share] Utility Program – App Launcher, with Big White Dot
As someone who uses and writes lots of programs, and works on countless projects simultaneously, it's...
DevLog 20250724: C# Scripting, Pure 2, Updated + Some Recap
Intro Pure has been our in-house C# scripting solution for a few years now. After...
12 GOOD (and More) Commercial Alternatives to Popular Free/Open Source Software (For Developers and Everyone Else)
Revision: 001 Last Update: 2025-07-23 Introduction Today I came across an excellent post...
DevLog 20250722: (Special Project) Correct Physics Handling
Overview This little project deals with very simple (2D) right body physics. I will not...
DevLog 20250711: Flappy Bird in Divooka! (Sneak Peak)
Sneak Peek I'm very excited to share some updates, along with this early demo video of...
DevLog 20250711: __init__.py - Package Initialization Across Languages
Revision: 01 Last Update: 2025-07-11 Python: __init__.py In Python, any folder with an...
DevLog 20250711: Limitations of Scratch
Revision: 1 Last update: 2025-07-11 Tags: Reference Scratch is top 20 most used programming...
DevLog 20250710: Generics in Divooka
Generics is effectively a way to generate codes using templates at either compile time or...
DevLog 20250710: ComfyUI API
ComfyUI's architecture can seem opaque at first glance, particularly for those approaching it from...
The Divooka Way - Part 1: Philosophically, How Exactly is Divooka Different and Useful Compared to Plain Good Code API
Tags: Visual Programming, Developer Tools, API Design, Software Architecture, Programming Paradigms,...
DevLog 20250708: Procedural Context Visual Debugger in Divooka
Overview How difficult is it to achieve Unreal Engine-style procedural context...
DevLog 20250706: Speech to Text Transcription using OpenAI Whisper
Overview Mobile phones have had audio input for a long time, but none of the default...
DevLog 20250706: Analyzing Project Dependencies
When a code project grows complex it's going to be difficult to understand which depends on which -...
DevLog 20250622: Procedural Context is Superclass (Child) of Dataflow Context
We have the same Subgraph node in both procedural and dataflow context - one might be wondering (from...
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[Share] Data-Driven Design: Leveraging Lessons from Game Development in Everyday Software
Originally posted on Methodox Wiki: Data-Driven Design. Overview Modern software often...