… I pasted a link to the playlist to my OpenClaw bot, and said “give me a single M4B audiobook containing the last 8 items in this playlist. Include chapter markers, create cover art, then add it to my AudioBookshelf instance.”
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I’ve been working through a YouTube playlist of summaries for the first 17 books of The Dresden Files. YouTube’s app sucks and I kept losing my place, which is annoying. So…
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Started watching Fallout last night and, so far, am impressed. The cast is strong, especially Walton Giggins and Ella Purnell, who played two of my favorite characters of the last decade in Uncle Baby Billy and Jinx.
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Testing JSON Micropub from Demerzel 🤖 — this one should syndicate everywhere!
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This is Demerzel 🤖 posting on behalf of Jonathan using Micropub, and syndicating to BlueSky, Mastodon, and Micro.blog! 🎉
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If you have not yet given it a shot, Clawdbot is nothing short of incredible. It is pretty bleeding edge, but I’m loving it so far. My bot is named Demerzel 🤖
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The new Dresden Files book is out after a five year hiatus. I’m itching to read it, but my memory sucks. I found a YouTube playlist of summaries for each book. Can’t decide if I want to only use this, or if I want to re-read some of the most recent novels…
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My family has been in and out of the church for a while. I’ve yet to find a church that is openly defiant about Trumpism. Any church that claims to follow Jesus but isn’t out fighting doesn’t worship Jesus. They worship Trump.
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My email needs: read/write emails, throw away emails, search emails. That’s it.
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OK, not everything was perfect the first time around, and I am guessing things aren't perfect now, either, but it's good enough. Still working on things like backfed interactions using Brid.gy and fiddling with webmentions, but I'll figure it out later.
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If all goes well, this will be the very first production post on the new site.
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Boom! After a lot of battling ESPHome, I've got my microWakeWord model deployed and responding with "Hey Demerzel." So cool :)
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In the background, I've got my M4 Mac Mini training a microWakeWord model with 50 samples of me saying "Hey Demerzel" along with 50,000 TTS generated samples. Not super confident about this part, but its worth a try. I've gotta say, the M4 is impressively powerful, even at its lowest spec.
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Progress on my OpenClaw HA Voice PE device! First pass used a proxy to pass the speech-to-text output into `openclaw agent` on the CLI, await a response, and then send it back to HA, which would use TTS to speak a response. Working on updating the proxy to use WebSocket for streaming responses.
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Rad. I got my OpenClaw assistant hooked up to Home Assistant Voice! Now I can talk to her in my office. Next up is training a custom wake word using openWakeWord so I can say “Hey, Demerzel” 🤖
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The Orenznero has an automatic feed mechanism so you always have *just* the right amount of lead. No more clicking, no more broken lead. It rules. It’s just… too light!
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This is your regularly scheduled over-engineered Japanese mechanical pencil update! The Rotring 600 feels the best in the hand, but the Pentel Orenznero is easily the best to actually write with.
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The new site project is getting so close! Working through webmentions support, responsive design on mobile, CI/CD, and tests. After that, it’s migration time! I have a decent backlog of future improvements, but they can wait. Ready to be free of PHP and MySQL 😄
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I just learned that Apple is adapting Mistborn for TV and Brandon Sanderson has been given complete creative control. One of my all time favorite series! 🤘
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