my shield posts about development

I added a few more features:

💥saving links to the author's page

🦾a diagnostics button with the ability to manage snapshot memory and clear storage

💫viewing all changes based on the oldest snapshot

It wasn't easy, but it was fun

Project on GitHub under the cut:

I made a small plugin for Obsidian that helps convert underscore-style Markdown formatting to HTML tags.

The plugin scans notes for patterns like _text_, *text*, or **text** and converts them into <i> and <b> HTML tags.

It can:

scan the current note or the entire vault

show a badge next to files that contain problematic formatting

generate a report with all affected notes

convert formatting directly from the file menu or report panel

I built a small offline encryption tool for Windows called Cipher Desk.

It’s a lightweight desktop app for encrypting text, images, and documents locally. Everything runs on the machine — no external services and no cloud storage involved.

The application uses:

AES-256-CBC encryption

HMAC-SHA256 authentication

PBKDF2-SHA256 for password derivation

Encrypted files are stored in a simple container format with the .cdesk extension.

Small experiment: generating passwords from audio fingerprints

Don’t want to store passwords in a notebook? Don’t want to overthink how to encrypt something before sending it to a friend?

So I built a small experiment called MusicGen.

It generates deterministic passwords from audio.

Same sound → same password.

Upload a piece of sound — a song fragment, a voice message, or even two minutes of your cat screaming — and the app converts its acoustic fingerprint into a password.

I I made a small Firefox extension to track AO3 stats.

It keeps local snapshots of your stats, so you can see how hits, kudos, bookmarks and comments change over time.

With its help, the author can track the statistics of his own works.

You paste in an author link, and it pulls the numbers from the author’s works pages without opening the individual fic pages themselves. It shows hits, kudos, bookmarks, comments, and how those numbers change over time, so it’s easier to see what’s moving without checking everything by hand.

I made it for myself, so the extension is not officially registered with Mozilla, but anyone can use it if they download the source code.

A more detailed description and source code are available on GitHub.