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icevl··on Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
I've used Piper for local TTS before, and Kokoro looks like an interesting
icevl··on Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler
Postgres features still "just work" behind the pooler.
icevl··on Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
This looks very close to what I want from AI tools: not just chat, but memory + actual work surfaces around
icevl··on Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks
Nice guide. I like the focus on preservation rather than just "getting the files off the disk".
icevl··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
Base64 without error correction turns the t-shirt itself into a lossy transport layer, so the OCR/transcription step becomes the actual challenge.