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What’s new with the dough calculator

July 28, 2026

It’s been a busy few months on the Pizza & Bread Dough Calculator, so I wanted to share a progress update for anyone following along. Here’s what’s changed since April. The big one: build your own recipe The headline feature of this stretch is a full Recipe Builder. Until now you were limited to the…

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GhostType – an encryption and decryption tool

June 18, 2026

GhostType Private, client-side AES-256 encryption in the browser. Lock text, rich formatting and images behind a password – no account, no server, nothing stored or uploaded. All cryptography runs locally via the browser’s native Web Crypto API. Please note that this project was vibe-coded and meant as an experiment and not for mission-critical use. Features…

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Why I stopped trusting Apple with my digital life

December 15, 2025

This article was also published on my LinkedIn profile here I read an article yesterday about someone losing their Apple ID, and it hit close to home. The exact same thing had happened to me 2 months prior. I purchased two gift cards to pay for iCloud and other Apple subscriptions, only to find the…

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Copy Status Bar Stats for Google Sheets

September 26, 2025

Copy Google Sheets Status Bar — one-click copy for Sum/Avg/Count/Min/Max If you use Google Sheets a lot, you probably know about the little status bar at the bottom-right—the one that shows Sum, Avg, Count, Min, and Max whenever you select cells. It’s great for quick checks… and slightly annoying when you need to paste those…

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New Biga Pizza Calculators

July 21, 2025

Hey friends, Quick update from the dough lab — I’ve just added two brand new calculators to calculators.ramin.io, both using biga as a pre-ferment. As always, the source code is open source and available at https://github.com/raminhossaini/ramin-dough-calculator If you’re new to biga, think of it as the cousin of poolish: drier, stronger, and full of character….

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Disposable E-mail Addresses

May 9, 2023

“Ain’t nobody got time for that.” — Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins, also a person that does not have time for that We’ve all seen this lately: you watch a YouTube video, and the video says they are making something available for you to download “for free” or make a copy of. Maybe it’s a Google…

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Using the Synology DS920+ as a Media Server and Ad-blocker

August 27, 2022

“There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” — Unknown Introduction After getting a Synology DS920+ as a NAS, it was obvious that it would be the perfect media server at home. After running Jellyfin for over a year on a VPS, my wife and I were both comfortable with it and didn’t want…

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Poolish Pizza Dough Calculator

June 10, 2022

In the past couple of months, I’ve been using a poolish to make our pizzas, and the results have been amazing. I made an online calculator that more or less goes by the recipe by Vito Iacopelli. It’s a really simple calculator that lets you change 3 variables in order to specify the amounts for…

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