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Rob Vella

Rob Vella — developer, tinkerer, human.

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Voice Clone, Config Hell, and the Best Feature I Didn't Mean to Build

It started with a simple question: "Is there a way to stream text to on macOS so it sort of renders as words come in?" Fast forward to today, and I have a full TTS pipeline for Claude Code, with voice cloning, speaker swapping, regex-reading incidents, and an AI that narrates its own victory laps in a cloned voice. Do I need this? No. Do I even use it that often? No. But, I also accidentally built…

Docker Desktop I/O Performance Tuning on macOS

I've always felt like Docker Desktop on macOS was slow for dev work - taking forever, dragging, builds that should take seconds taking minutes. But I never actually measured it. So I ran inside containers and the numbers tell an interesting story. Use these findings and the TL;DR at the bottom to maximize your speed Note: My setup with my external TB4 NVME is somewhat unique, but this SHOULD apply…