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Who needs source code? I use Audiobookshelf (abbreviated ABS) for all my legal audiobooks that I bought legally, and I really like it. I also use the Smart Audiobook Player (abbreviated SABP) Android app, which I also bought (legally this time) to listen to books, because it has the strongest featureset out of all the apps I’ve tried, particularly when it comes to navigating around books.…
I don't care for the joy of programming Lately I’ve gotten heavily back into making stuff, and it’s mostly because of LLMs. I thought that I liked programming, but it turned out that what I like was making things, and programming was just one way to do that. Since LLMs have become good at programming, I’ve been using them to make stuff nonstop, and it’s very exciting that we’re at the beginning of…
It's small and tiny and so cute Have you ever always wanted a very very small voice note recorder that would fit in your pocket? Something that would always work, and always be available to take a note at the touch of a button, with no fuss? Me neither. Until, that is, I saw the Pebble Index 01 , then I absolutely needed it right away and had to have it in my life immediately, but alas, it is not…
I call it 'Bedtime' The other day I saw a video by someone who bought a $16 electronic clock , and it looked interesting, because that little clock had been taunting me for months by showing up constantly in my AliExpress recommendations. I held off on buying it because what am I going to do with yet another clock , but the video said that it has an ESP8266 inside, and that, with a little…
The meeting stakes are high when you can get hung up on As you may remember, or completely not know, I have a bit of a fascination with old rotary phones . Occasionally, when people learn about this fascination, they donate their old rotary phones to me, so I have ended up with a small collection. The other thing I have a fascination with is meetings. Well, I say “fascination”, but it’s more of a…