Installing CastPolish on Windows and Linux
Step-by-step install guides for Windows (using winget) and Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch), plus optional launcher scripts for both platforms.
Albert Collver
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.
CastPolish Update: Light/Dark Mode, Transcribe-Only, and Speaker Diarization Setup
Two new features plus a complete step-by-step guide to setting up speaker diarization with pyannote.audio and HuggingFace.
Another Piece on Why Your Mac Looks Wrong on a 4K Monitor — Even a Great One
My son plugged his new M5 Max into a 282 PPI OLED monitor that exceeds Apple's own Studio Display spec — and it still looked wrong. Here's why, and what the M4/M5 firmware regression has to do with it.
Build a One-Drop Contact Sheet Generator on macOS (Dropzone 4 + AppleScript + ImageMagick)
Build a drag-and-drop contact sheet generator on macOS using AppleScript, ImageMagick, and Dropzone 4 — with a Finder Quick Action as a bonus.
CastPolish: Free, Open-Source Audio Processing for Your Podcast
A free, local alternative to Auphonic — loudness normalization, transcription, AI shownotes, and a native Mac app. Runs entirely on your machine.