Nathan (@nathanbeddoe.com)

Nathan

@nathanbeddoe.com

Australian Software Developer (TS, Go, .NET) Email: me@nathanbeddoe.com https://sprintfast.engblock.io https://vpsm.sh

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Maybe controversial opinion but Season 2 of The Wire is better than Season 3, except maybe the last two episodes.

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23h

Added persistent playback time to WebToSpeech. Now saves how far you were into a recording across devices, so if you need to go from your laptop to your phone, we gotchu.

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The trend continues, Trump is a cancer to any candidate in the world. Anyone he supports, they lose. Now I hope the U.S. will learn from their international counterparts.

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Updated a little

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You can now embed WebToSpeech files onto your blog.

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You can now embed WebToSpeech files onto your blog.

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webtospeech.app/listen/01m5q... Trying out a new OG image.

webtospeech.appHelen Haines’s condition improves days after losing both legs from alleged attackwww.theguardian.com · Read by Adam

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And 0.1.3 is releasing with svg and markdown previewing.

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Added image viewing support in github.com/EngBlock/zco... Next up is previewing Markdown and SVG’s in editor.

github.comRelease zcode 0.1.2 · EngBlock/zcodeImages open in zcode. Image files open in a tab instead of failing. Opening a PNG used to fail with "is not a UTF-8 text file". Images now open in their own tab from the navigator, Open Quickly, zc...

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Added support to zcode for vite apps, as in, language server support for html, css, js/ts and emmet.

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Oh, and vue, tsx, jsx and svelte.

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github.com/EngBlock/zcode And the repo is public. I would welcome any contributors. The ideal contributor is someone who hates when they open a random text file and for SOME reason MacOS decides that XCode needs to start and it takes forever for the window to show.

github.comGitHub - EngBlock/zcode: A fast, Zed-inspired editor for Apple-platform development, written in Rust on GPUIA fast, Zed-inspired editor for Apple-platform development, written in Rust on GPUI - EngBlock/zcode

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Well... this looks pretty good.

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I believe there’s an online movement by oligarchs in the U.S. to paint the french protests as extremely violent to avoid U.S. citizens thinking too much about their cost of living issues at home coming into the midterms.

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Trying my hardest to kill all my opus 5.5 tokens.

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Ah Rust. Vibe-slopping a Xcode alternative in GPUI-RS and all the worktrees have taken up 350gb of storage on my machine.

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Not me sneaking a peek at my agents work as my girlfriend walks off, like I’m checking texts from another girl.

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I like it. It’s no longer shouting for my attention.

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Good thing no ai features were added to the app

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Jesus christ, an xbox series x is 5000pln

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How worried were Cloudflare about Celld damn.

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Each key only works < 90% of the time. Jks, this is very cool.

GitHub@github.com

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Maybe I’ll give Remix a go now knowing Ryan Florence isn’t involved.

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I really liked their 3.0 idea of moving from react into a more web primitive toolkit.

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Thought TinyCast was being buggy, turns out ChatGPT app turned on it's shitty mini thing and auto assigned it to opt + space, which... is the default keybinding for both raycast and tinycast.

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How to spot a chud 101

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webtospeech.app/listen/01m3m... Glad to see it wasn’t AI written!!!!

EmDash CMS@emdashcms.com

EmDash 1.0 is here! A modern, secure CMS, built on Astro as the spiritual successor to WordPress. Plugins run in secure sandboxes, and the distributed plugin registry is powered by Atproto!

emdashcms.comEmDash 1.0: an open source CMS for AstroAnnouncing EmDash 1.0, a stable, free and open source CMS built on Astro.

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webtospeech.app/listen/01m3m...

webtospeech.appFour months of VoidZero at Cloudflare: making the open-source JavaScript toolchain faster for all humans and agentsblog.cloudflare.com · Read by Algieba

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Since joining Cloudflare, VoidZero has delivered more than 80 releases that drastically speed up JavaScript compilation, linting, and testing. From a 10x faster React compiler to Vite+ 1.0, here’s how we are building faster tools for developers and AI agents. https://cfl.re/4AwHx3L #BirthdayWeek

blog.cloudflare.comFour months of VoidZero at Cloudflare: making the open-source JavaScript toolchain faster for all humans and agentsIn the four months since VoidZero joined Cloudflare, we’ve shipped more than 80 releases, closed over 1,200 issues, and landed some big performance improvements.

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webtospeech.app/listen/01m3m... Pretty happy with Gemini 3.8 Flash

webtospeech.appImproving site performance by shipping more CSSgithub.blog · Read by Algieba

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Something about the spacing here looks INCREDIBLY messy. Like the spacing between the post actions and the date… it’s just… off

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webtospeech.app/listen/01m3e... Added PDF to my webtospeech tool!

webtospeech.appBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash Systembitcoin.org · Read by Algieba

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Is the fu feed from @eurosky.social open sourced?

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Found it! github.com/eurosky-soci...

github.comfu-feed/README.md at main · eurosky-social/fu-feedA ForYou algorithm. Contribute to eurosky-social/fu-feed development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Had a really successful month with stocks, so helped myself to a coffee grinder and an aeropress, can’t wait to get back to making great coffee (been living off preground supermarket beans)

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Really Gemini???? What the actual fuck.

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I’ve had the webtospeech.app domain for years, maybe half a decade now. Today I’ve re-launched a service on it, which uses Gemini 3.8 Flash’s tts model. It pulls the main content from a webpage, and converts it into your own little audiobook.

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Originally, I was using the neural tts services from Azure, AWS and Google, which were good enough for me, but weren’t worth offering as a service. When LLM’s appeared, long context TTS offering quality dropped through the floor, and the neural services stopped even getting a look in.

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Gemini 3.8 Flash is the first llm based tts offering that I’ve felt confident enough in to re-ignite this. It’s not open for registration yet, but I’m thinking it’ll be a 5$ one time license to use with BYOK, and a 15$ a month subscription to use my gemini key.

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I've played with TTS a lot, both neural and llm based, and LLM's are just far too indeterminate for them to work well. If you go too long, the output degrades, if you instantiate a new request too often (like per paragraph), the voice changes too often. Neural sounded worse, but it was consistent.