Deep Live Cam for Mac

Simplified Mac installer for Deep Live Cam - real-time AI face swapping application with automated setup and dependency management.

August 26, 2025 · 3 min · 547 words · Simon Huggins

Quora Data Tools

Comprehensive suite of tools for Quora data management - backup user answers from public profiles and extract/organize official Quora data exports.

August 26, 2025 · 4 min · 801 words · Simon Huggins

TextNugs Chrome Extension

Feature-rich Chrome extension for managing and inserting text snippets with advanced targeting, dynamic content, and comprehensive organizational tools.

August 26, 2025 · 6 min · 1107 words · Simon Huggins

Building Scalable Node.js APIs: Lessons from Production

Building APIs that can handle millions of requests while remaining maintainable is one of the most rewarding challenges in backend development. Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to architect and scale Node.js APIs from handling hundreds of requests per day to millions per hour. In this post, I’ll share the key principles, patterns, and practical techniques that have proven most valuable in production environments. The Foundation: Core Principles 1. Design for Failure Every external dependency will fail at some point. Your API should gracefully handle: ...

August 26, 2025 · 7 min · 1408 words · Simon Huggins

A Theory Of Commensurate Complexity

I was thinking on how you would effectively model activities that may occur in the real world in order to create a game where you can play god and, without actually doing anything obviously god-like, affect the way the world works in various ways in order to create a ‘ripple effect’ - e.g. genetically changing a virus just ever-so-slightly, sending a cosmic ray to just the wrong place to give someone a tumour, changing the direction of tectonic plates in a way so as to cause a major earthquake etc. ...

December 3, 2009 · 6 min · 1212 words · Simon Huggins