Marcelino Veloso III

I'm a lawyer, developer, and a consultant based in the Philippines. And this is my collection of tils, how-tos, and notes.

The last time I tried a personal blog was the dawn of the internet. Google was a startup, Geocities was still alive, and Dreamweaver was a thing.

I started to code again in 2019ish, sometime after law school. This is an attempt to write words, to remember code, in the futile hope that I don't forget them.

Selected Works

citelaws.com

Legalese searchable via MS 365 Word Office taskpane plugin.

corpus-unpdf

Parse PDF Supreme Court decision into segmentable text

cloudflare-images

Thin wrapper over Cloudflare Images API

cloudflare-r2

Thin wrapper over Cloudflare R2 with some convenience functions

start-django

Boilerplate: Django + fly.io, styled by Tailwind, htmx-ed

django-fragments

Custom template tags for common html idioms in Django.

apptitude.xyz

Authenticated learning management system with random snapshots for compliance

citation-utils

Regex-based docket- and report- styled citations based on Philippine Supreme Court decisions

statute-utils

Detect titles of Philippine statutes, generate a nested tree from its provisions; requires local file.

start-ocr

Apply ocr to pdf via pytesseract, opencv, and pdfplumber.