# wondered — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover wondered. Page: Feed: --- ## [Cloning King Charles's voice to read audiobooks](https://monroeclinton.com/king-charles-voice-clone-audiobooks/) _2026-06-22 · Monroe Clinton_ I pray to the British only that I be beheaded rather than hanged for this. Project Gutenberg has more than 75,000 books in the public domain that you can read on its website. However, the public-domain audiobooks are sometimes lacking. In March, Fish Audio released S2, which provides adequate-sounding text-to-speech. Here is a sample of King Charles’s voice reading the title of South, generated… ## [Bots, scrapers, and proxies: defending Drupal sites in an automated internet](https://www.pixelite.co.nz/article/bots-scrapers-and-proxies-defending-drupal-sites-in-an-automated-internet/) _2026-05-17 · Sean Hamlin · Pixelite_ Bots are over half of web traffic. Here is the layered defence I use to keep Drupal sites running - companion to my DrupalSouth Wellington 2026 talk. ## [Chrome extensions are a supply chain risk - build your own instead](https://www.pixelite.co.nz/article/chrome-extensions-are-a-supply-chain-risk-build-your-own-instead/) _2026-04-21 · Sean Hamlin · Pixelite_ JSON Formatter started injecting ads. Chrome extensions are a supply chain risk. I built my own replacement in under an hour with Claude. ## [The year of the artificial intern](https://monroeclinton.com/the-year-of-the-artificial-intern/) _2025-12-31 · Monroe Clinton_ This year I went from having not a single subscription to paying for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, and Grok. My usage of these tools makes it well worth it, according to “Your Year with ChatGPT” I’m in the top 1% of users for the number of ChatGPT messages sent for 2025. I’ve been looking for a replacement to Google search for years, and I’ve finally found it. The LLM… ## [AI has no taste](https://monroeclinton.com/ai-has-no-taste/) _2025-11-28 · Monroe Clinton_ I find AI useful as a better search engine and little past that. The reason being that I have a taste for what I like and what I don’t like. AI is not able to digest that taste because it does not operate at the individual human level. I have a feeling that people are part of an unquantifiable world, and it is unfathomable that a statistical entity will ever “get” the… ## [He Saw Mansions - Heaven is more REAL than this earth](https://storiesforbedtime.podbean.com/e/the-title-of-true-story-of-heaven-by-pastor-david-yonggi-cho/) _2025-08-31 · Bedtime Stories_ David Yonggi cho (Pastor of South Korean church) shares a testimony of his friend who died of a heart attack and went to Heaven, then came back to tell us that Jesus is coming back very soon. Be ready. https://heavenscatalyst.org/witness/eternity-after-death/ [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/m56q42e3id64wbgy/true-story-of-heaven-by-pastor-david-yonggi-cho1.mp3) ## [I made my own suit for a 1920s-inspired lawn party](https://monroeclinton.com/making-my-own-suit/) _2025-08-12 · Monroe Clinton_ There are few things I love more than costume parties. I’m always waiting for Hallowe’en, and any other time I’m able to wear a costume. The most recent instance was a 1920s-inspired lawn party, for which I decided to attempt to make my own suit. I haven’t made any complex clothing pieces, so I wasn’t sure how it would go. The jacket took me somewhere around 15 hours… ## [How to break Docker's promise of consistency](https://monroeclinton.com/docker-consistency-file-systems/) _2025-07-31 · Monroe Clinton_ My co-worker ran into an unusual bug. The majority of our work is backend development, with a very simple admin dashboard to monitor things. He added a javascript file, camelCase.min.js, to the assets directory, and built the feature. Everything worked running in Docker containers locally, but when deployed to a cloud environment, the JavaScript file gave a not found error. He realized he imported… ## [Making The Browser Company leet](https://monroeclinton.com/making-the-browser-company-leet/) _2025-07-29 · Monroe Clinton_ Today I decided to check what The Browser Company was up to. I don’t know much about them other than I like their company’s name and marketing. I’ve never used their products. When I looked at their homepage, I noticed something that caught my eye. They showed users' cursors moving around as blue pixels and an online presence count. Right away, I wondered if I could draw a hello… ## [I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning](https://monroeclinton.com/counting-all-yurts-in-mongolia/) _2025-06-17 · Monroe Clinton_ The Fall of Civilizations podcast put out a 6¾-hour episode on the history of the Mongol Empire, which I eagerly listened to. After finishing the episode I wondered about contemporary Mongolian society, I wanted to learn what the lands that the Mongol Empire exploded from are like in our current day. There are many ways to try to understand a society, whether it be quantifying it or looking at the… ## [AI Summaries & Audio Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7dUGHz3KdDld) _2025-06-16 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to concise audio briefings for the latest stories. ## ["Near-Death Experience: A Journey Through Heaven"](https://storiesforbedtime.podbean.com/e/near-death-experience-a-journey-through-heaven/) _2025-05-26 · Bedtime Stories_ Peter Marshall shares his testimony - Experience an incredible journey of life beyond death as our guest recounts multiple near-death experiences. Each time, he found himself in the mesmerizing magnificence of heaven, describing the vivid beauty of the trees, plants, and landscapes that defy earthly comparisons. With breathtaking imagery, he illustrates a serene place permeated by love and… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/diiyt4i7t4zv6qqh/Robertwenttoheaven-tphd5s-Optimized.mp3) ## [William Branham's Encounter of Heaven](https://storiesforbedtime.podbean.com/e/william-branhams-encounter-of-heaven/) _2025-04-04 · Bedtime Stories_ [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/kw2p3rbn9uqisfew/William_Branham_encounter_of_Heaven.mp3) ## [Graphing Ukrainian territorial control over time](https://monroeclinton.com/graphing-ukranian-territorial-control/) _2025-03-24 · Monroe Clinton_ Include territory taken before 2022 Last 180 days Last 365 days All let chartSQKM; let chartROC; let labels; let values; let before2022Checked = true; const PRE\_2022 = 43\_963; document.getElementById('pre-2022').addEventListener('click', (e) = { before2022Checked = e.currentTarget.checked; chartSQKM.data.datasets\[0\].data = values.map(v = v - (before2022Checked? 0 : PRE\_2022)); chartSQKM?.update();… ## [PostgreSQL transaction isolation levels by example](https://monroeclinton.com/transaction-isolation-levels-postgresql/) _2025-01-28 · Monroe Clinton_ Database transactions are important to ensuring data validity when running queries. They’re often used to ensure that either all of the queries run, or if one fails the previous changes are rolled back. Another important aspect is transaction isolation, which has several modes. Each mode (known as level) provides more guarantees than the last. Each of these levels handles possible… ## [Container load balancing with Linux bridges, veths, and IPVS](https://monroeclinton.com/container-load-balancing-linux/) _2024-12-31 · Monroe Clinton_ I’ve been working on a project that takes requests and load balances them between containers. Using Docker or Kubernetes makes this easy, but I wondered how these systems work, so I decided to try and implement it myself. I’ve been using containerd to programmatically create and manage containers. It works quite well for this task, however it does not provide networking to or between… ## [Debugging Docker image sizes - how to inspect them with dive](https://www.pixelite.co.nz/article/debugging-docker-image-sizes-how-to-inspect-them-with-dive/) _2024-12-06 · Sean Hamlin · Pixelite_ Have you ever wondered why your docker images are so large, and what can be done to drill down into the layers one by one. Well, you can.