Side Project
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[Dev] Speed Camera OUT! Building My Own Android Auto Speed Camera Alert App
Prologue: Three Things I Could Not Stand If you drive, this has probably happened to you: your dashcam proudly advertises “built-in speed camera alerts”, the feature is switched on, and one day a ticket still shows up in your mailbox. The newly installed camera simply was not in the database. After digging into this product category, I found three fundamental problems: First, dashcam map data never updates itself. The built-in camera database is a snapshot from the day the device left the factory. Updating it means hunting down a file on the vendor’s website, pulling out the SD card, and flashing it through some buried menu. Most people never do it even once, so the data stays frozen in whatever year they bought the device.
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[Tutorial] Automating WSJ AI Summaries and Emailing Them
Introduction: A Lazy Idea Around March of this year (2025-03), I was chatting with a colleague who mentioned he had recently subscribed to The Wall Street Journal. He also receives the daily print version of the WSJ in his email. However, for a working engineer, reading a full newspaper every day is a luxurious fantasy—perhaps it is for most people in this modern era. Having shorter key points and summaries would be helpful for daily information consumption. It would be even better if it could further filter for useful information.
