Teaching a Laptop to Read in My Own Voice
Chasing an ElevenLabs-quality voice clone that runs free and local — the Chatterbox fight, why token TTS improvises, and the little CPU model that finally worked.
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The Church Year, Drawn as a Wheel
We are used to reading a calendar downward — January at the top, December at the bottom — as though the year were a ladder we climb and then step off. The church has never
The Almanac: Moon Phases, the Date of Easter, and a Calculator Back to the Exodus
Calendar Explorer reborn: moon phases, the date of Easter East and West, the Passover moon back to the Exodus, U.S. civil holidays, and a tour of why reckoning Easter has been so hard since the early Church.
Stable beats fast: the Apple-GPU crash that taught CastPolish to use the CPU
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.
CastPolish v1.7.0: Polished PDF and Word Documents, Automatically
Every episode now produces a ready-to-read PDF and an editable Word document — summary, chapters, and transcript included. No cloud, no copy-paste.