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My Church Wanted the Member Directory Too. I Used a 4-Digit Number Every Member Knows

The Need: Other People Wanted It Too A few days after I put the church directory into my own Bible app, people at church heard about it. They asked if everyone could use it. A photo directory is only useful if the other members have it too, and a printed booklet gets lost. But the directory has photos, names and home addresses of about 140 families. I could not just put it on the internet. And I did not want to make 140 accounts or remember who forgot a password. ...

In the AI Age, Knowing a Tool Exists Is Most of the Work

You’ve probably felt this. Someone mentions a technology — Cloudflare Tunnel, RAG, Termux, vector search — and a small door closes in your head. “That sounds powerful,” you think, “but it’s not for me. I’m not an engineer.” For most of my life, that feeling was right. Knowing the name of a technology got you almost nowhere. Between the name and a working result there were months of study, and a level of skill I was never going to reach. ...