Charmaine Chui

Why creating a runnable fat JAR in Java is harder than it seems — and how understanding the Java Paradox can save you from dependency hell. AI-generated concept art by ChatGPT, ‘The Java Paradox’ A few years ago, I wrote about bundling Java applications. At the time, my approach was fairly straightforward: extract all dependencies, merge them into a single JAR and call it a day. To be fair, it worked! Sometimes.

Audio transcription tools have evolved significantly over the years, moving from manual stenography to cloud-based AI services. Yet, in industries where data confidentiality and network independence are paramount, a different paradigm is required: fully offline transcription that runs locally without sending audio to external servers. Several real-world scenarios highlight the need for private, network-independent setups: • Gathering sentiments from interviewees during campaign evaluations.

Member-only story Embracing web technology and AI — Run ONNX ML models in-browser with WASM+JavaScript. Charmaine Chui · Follow 4 min read · -- 🙶 Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript 🙷— Jeff Atwood, 2009 Truer words have never been spoken and continue to hold much weight in today’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven digital landscape.