Weeknotes 2025-01-13
,Come, let's take anti-inflammatory pain medicine together 🫴 --CatSalad
Just wrapped up my first work week of the year. While it was pretty routine, I did manage to push out an update to podcast-transcripts. The big changes: you can now do transcription locally using mlx-whisper (which works particularly well on Macs), without needing to rely on any external APIs. I also added support for local audio files, so you're no longer limited to just audio URLs - though that option's still there if you prefer it. Plus, thanks to FFmpeg, the tool now automatically converts any recognized audio format to 16kHz mono MP3, so you're not restricted to MP3s anymore.
Articles
- Should I Use React For That? | To sum it up 😀, basically. But there are lots of good sources linked.
- Principles Of Web Accessibility | Nice writeup! Agree!
- Django: render JavaScript import maps in templates | Cool, lots of stuff I didn't know about here.
- My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years, for Oxide and Friends
Software
- TabPFN is a foundation model for tabular data / Accurate predictions on small data with a tabular foundation model (Paper) | Wow, there are models now that perform better than XGBoost & co? Cool!
Fediverse
- i’m going to start sending out emails that start: “Hostile reminder:”
- #TIL about the #column command and I cant believe that I missed this gem since... forever? | Didn't know about this too 😳
- TIL about rtss: a handy command line tool for seeing the relative timestamps of each line of output from a process. | What's up with all those command line utils I don't know about? I worked as a sysadmin 20 years ago. I thought I know them all wtf..
- i'm sure anyone who has ever done some serious plotting can relate :)
- This is proof i have the patience to stab something 1000 times | Stitching
- YES, BUT - catsinabox
Videos
- Self Models of Loving Grace | Great talk!