TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acoustic Synchronization
The future of voice AI hinges on sounding natural, fast, expressive, and free of quirks like hallucinated words or skipped content. Today’s LLM-based TTS systems are forced to choose between speed, quality, and reliability because of a fundamental mismatch between how text and audio are represented inside language models. TADA (Text-Acoustic Dual Alignment) resolves that […]
Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it
A programmer’s text editor is their castle Toy software performing a task when the stars align and the bytes hold their breath is one thing. Ingesting whatever freakish data the real world has to offer and handling it gracefully is another. For a while I’ve been dissatisfied with my text editor. I settled on Howl […]
Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes
This page contains a curated list of recent changes to main branch Zig. This page contains entries for the year 2026. Other years are available in the Devlog archive page. March 10, 2026 Author: Matthew Lugg Today, I merged a 30,000 line PR after two (arguably three) months of work. The goal of this branch […]
Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens
There have long been hints that innate immunity can last longer in certain circumstances. The most-studied example is the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin tuberculosis vaccine, which is given to some 100 million newborns every year. Epidemiological and clinical studies have shown that it can decrease infant mortality from other infections, suggesting that the cross-protection could last months. […]
U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth
One year ago, on 28 February 2025, Wikipedia user Moyogo updated the page for Angzarr with a citation to the type foundry H. Berthold AG’s 1950 symbol catalogue listing ⍼ as Azimut, Richtungswinkel, or “azimuth”, “direction angle”. Mystery solved!
Cloudflare Crawl Endpoint
# Initiate a crawlcurl -X POST ’https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/browser-rendering/crawl’ -H ’Authorization: Bearer ’ -H ’Content-Type: application/json’ ”url”: ”https://blog.cloudflare.com/”# Check resultscurl -X GET ’https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/browser-rendering/crawl/{job_id}’ -H ’Authorization: Bearer ’
RISC-V Is Sloooow
About 3 months ago I started working with RISC-V port of Fedora Linux. Many things happened during that time. Triaging I went through the Fedora RISC-V tracker entries, triaged most of them (at the moment 17 entries left in NEW) and tried to handle whatever possible. Fedora packaging My usual way of working involves fetching sources of a […]
HyperCard discovery: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive (2022)
This page is a wiki. Please login or create an account to begin editing. Voyager Expanded Book (EB15)Neuromancer/Count Zero/Mona Lisa Overdriveby William Gibson This Voyager Expanded Books edition contains William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy–Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988). Also, it contains an afterword by the author that hasn’t been republished elsewhere […]
Widevine retiring its Cloud License Service (CLS)
What’s the Widevine CLS? Widevine’s CLS is a free Google-hosted option available to Widevine licensees to generate DRM licenses. This service endpoint allows content distributors to use Google’s infrastructure rather than fully operating their own Widevine licensing server or working with a third-party DRM vendor. For some, this has been a convenient entry point – […]
Agents that run while I sleep
I’ve been building agents that write code while I sleep. Tools like Gastown run for hours without me watching. Changes land in branches I haven’t read. A few weeks ago I realized I had no reliable way to know if any of it was correct: whether it actually does what I said it should do. […]