Albert Collver, Ph.D. — Lutheran theologian, podcaster, and lifelong coder since the '90s shareware era. I build free, open-source tools like CastPolish, liturgical software, and family-history projects. All local, no cloud.
A 2.5-hour transcription crashed on Apple's GPU mid-run. Here's the uncatchable Metal error, the one-setting fix, and a chart of where the time actually goes.
The One-Year (Historic) lectionary now carries its full historic propers — introit antiphons, collects, and graduals — from the public-domain 1917 Common Service Book, on screen and in a printable bulletin sheet.
In 1997 I sold a Visual Basic church-year calculator as CompuServe shareware. Thirty years later I rebuilt it as an open-source web app — and discovered the old menu was already the new roadmap.
CastPolish v1.4 is the biggest update since launch. It adds one-click quality presets, a vocabulary hints field that dramatically improves how Whisper handles names and domain terms, and the new large-
