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Speeding Up Audio Files with FFmpeg: A Quick Guide

Learn how to use FFmpeg to speed up audio files and perform other useful edits in the terminal.

April 12, 2026•O. Wolfson•

Audio EditingFFmpegTerminal Commands

Run a Private AI on Your Laptop — No Internet Required

Learn how to run a powerful AI assistant on your laptop without needing an internet connection, API keys, or subscriptions.

March 20, 2026•O. Wolfson•2•

AITechnologyOffline Tools

GitHub-Backed MDX Editing in owolf-dot-com

How owolf-dot-com writes MDX to GitHub in production, reads it back for admin editing, and triggers Vercel deploys from commit-based saves.

February 9, 2026•O. Wolfson•

webdevelopmentdeployment

Building a Multimodal NL Input Playground

How I built a natural-language and image-driven demo builder that generates schemas, forms, and item detail views on the fly.

February 4, 2026•O. Wolfson•

webdevelopmentai

Look at San Francisco Tech, Through the Companies Being Built There

If you line up a lot of the tech companies coming out of San Francisco right now, a pattern shows up pretty quickly. Most of them aren’t trying to be...

December 31, 2025•O. Wolfson

The Minimalist Toolchain for High-Confidence Shipping

Modern AI tools let us build faster than ever. They also make it easier to ship convincing mistakes at speed.

December 17, 2025•O. Wolfson•

developmenttesting

Cancellations & Pauses: How Subscription Endings Really Work in Stripe (And Why Developers Misinterpret Them)

A deep dive into how cancellations and pauses work in Stripe, clarifying common misunderstandings among developers.

November 27, 2025•O. Wolfson•

StripePaymentsSubscriptionsSoftware Development

Effective Strategies for Developers to Approach New Clients

Explore various effective strategies that developers can use to approach and secure new clients in today's competitive market.

November 27, 2025•O. Wolfson•

BusinessFreelancingClient Relations

Proration & Usage-Based Billing: How Stripe Calculates Dynamic Charges and Why Developers Get It Wrong

An in-depth exploration of proration and usage-based billing in Stripe, clarifying common misconceptions for developers.

November 27, 2025•O. Wolfson•

BillingStripePaymentsFinance

Database Sync: Why Your DB Is the Source of Application Truth — Building a Reliable Stripe Billing Model

Explore the critical importance of maintaining a reliable database that reflects Stripe's billing truth for your application.

November 26, 2025•O. Wolfson•

Database ManagementStripeBilling Systems