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I Built My Own Video Downloader — No Ads, No Watermarks, Three Platforms

Fed up with ad-infested download sites, I built a clean local tool that downloads TikTok, Instagram, and X videos without watermarks. Here's how the provider chain, proxy download, and caching work — conceptually.

Ajay Walia · May 11, 2026

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Camera Roll to Caption — Python Pipeline, Vision Model for Photo Tags

A small structured review seam beats blind automation. The case study: a two-stage Python tagger that turned 35 garden HEICs into captioned posts, with 97% acceptable output after thirty seconds of human review.

Ajay Walia · May 2, 2026