Hello!
This site covers a number of projects being run under the scattercode umbrella, alongside a tech blog which has been running since the late 1990s under different designs and URLs. In that time, the writing has covered software development topics, and more recently, has incorporated various side projects based on volunteer work for Armenian organisations, such as the Armenian Institute, and other charity organisations interested in digitising archives and books.
Long-form, no clickbait, no SEO games. Posts are irregular but there’s a chance that might improve.
Topics
- Digitising and publishing old books and archives — the challenges of OCR and publishing
- Armenian Institute projects and events - from publishing books to the history of computing in Armenia
- Building software and websites - technical obstacles encountered and how they were solved
Projects
Tetrak OCR
A local-first OCR orchestrator for archival material — postcards, posters, playbills and trade papers. No single engine wins across document types, so it runs several per file, scores what each produced, keeps the best, and quarantines anything too poor to trust.
tetrak.devVélostevie
The bikepacking sister journal. The two sites share an author, but absolutely no design language — and that is intentional.
velostevie.comscatterskills
A collaborative library of Agent Skills for Claude — reusable procedures for the work we do often enough that the approach is worth writing down.
github.com/scattercode/scatterskills