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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My birthday is in July, just after this new LEGO set is released...
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Are you sinking your teeth in during Eternal Caturday?
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Coming up for the next few weeks, the Dan Allosso Book Club will focus on Cesar Hidalgo's new book, out this month in the United States:
Hidalgo, César A. 2026. The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge. New York: Penguin.
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My website has been hobbling along for about two weeks now. Sadly I've either been away or too under the weather to clean things up. Hopefully a bit of work this morning has improved things. We'll see how stable things are going forward.
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After my note earlier about progress on restoring my 1936 Royal KHM typewriter, a colleague reminded me that a KHM makes an appearance in the Taylor Swift song Fortnight. Then they asked if I was just collecting machines from her videos? While I fully expect to pick up a Royal Ten one day, it's a total coincidence. She's obviously got great taste in vintage typing machines.
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