blog.vinividivici.top

Technical notes from products I am actually shipping.

I write about compact tools, smart TV software, media playback, automation, and the engineering tradeoffs behind public GitHub projects.

Latest writing

Measure first: making a TV app stop feeling slow

Building the instrument before touching the code — an 81% faster TV app, and the optimisation the measurements killed before it shipped.

Counting users for an app that collects nothing

Measuring daily active devices, install base and market share for a TV app with no analytics — from two download counters, plus a detour through LG's Korean regulatory filings.

Codex SSD log writes

A short note on the Codex SQLite logging report, SSD write pressure, and why the wording should stay precise.

Building bili-webos for the living room

How an open-source Bilibili client for LG webOS TVs grew — by v1.5.1 — into TV search, threaded in-video comments, live streams with a chat rail, playback speed, and EN/ES subtitle translation, all remote-driven.

A Claude Code skill for LG webOS app work

Why I packaged the repeatable parts of webOS development into a small skill: build loops, TV constraints, emulator checks, and handoff notes.

wechat-cli: boring automation is the point

A single-file Python tool for sending WeChat messages through WebDriverAgent, designed to avoid a heavy service or LLM dependency.

scenic-roads: finding better weekend drives

A Hangzhou-centered MVP that combines OSM roads, DEM elevation data, and scoring rules to surface twisty mountain routes within day-trip range.

claude-code-review: a second reviewer inside Codex

A Codex plugin that asks the local Claude Code CLI for external review, adversarial critique, and delegated rescue work when a second model helps.