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Last week, a Voilib user reached out to me with two questions: how the project is currently progressing, and whether I could recommend other AI-based tools that might support his learning journey. I’d like to share part of my reply here, since I believe it could be useful for others as well: I’m glad to hear Voilib was useful for you. I have to admit that keeping it updated isn’t one of my main…
I've just publised my first Emacs package: jira.el : an Emacs integration for Jira . If you have no choice but to use Jira, at least do it without leaving Emacs. jira.el is an Emacs package that brings the "power" of Atlassian's Jira right into your editor. It lets you list, filter, and inspect issues, modify properties, and even add worklogs—all without leaving Emacs. ℹ️ Status <2025-03-17 Mon>:…
Voilib permanently shut down on December 14th, 2024. Figure 1: End of Voilib The decision wasn’t easy, but maintaining a project like this without funding is challenging. While models like Whisper have revolutionized transcription, processing countless hours of audio remains a complex task. Additionally, managing large collections of embeddings requires fine-tuning the retrieval system—something I…
valencia-now , a project that I announced a few days ago with great reception on X , is now public as of today 🎉. This simple dashboard allows visualization of real-time , historical , and aggregated data on traffic and air quality in Valencia. Figure 1: valencia-now: real-time traffic information Real-time information The open data portal of the Spanish city of Valencia provides real-time…
Each week, Voilib diligently collects and transcribes hundreds of podcast episodes. These valuable transcripts undergo a meticulous indexing process, enabling a sophisticated semantic search capability. As a result, our users can effortlessly execute intelligent queries, pinpointing precisely the most relevant fragments of podcast episodes. I launched Voilib in December 2022 and, some months…
Introducing Jane: from bullet points to cover letter Allow me to introduce you to Jane Doe , a seasoned Software Engineer with 10 years of experience. Currently, Jane is exploring various job opportunities and has come across a few enticing offers that demand a cover letter as part of the application process. In light of this circumstance, Jane has turned to ChatGPT , seeking assistance in…
Today, I decided to open-source Voilib 🎉, the podcast search engine I launched in December 2022. You can now run your own instance of it and transcribe and index your favorite podcasts (or even your own content!).You can find it on Github or Gitlab . Appearing in Show HN was a big boost for the project. That post was the main source of traffic during the first days of life of Voilib . I am…
A single Docker CLI to rule them all! Let me show you a little example of how I manage different Docker nodes. My audio search engine, Voilib is running on a remote machine, configured in my .ssh/config file with the name voilib . I used to do ssh voilib to open a new SSH session to execute commands such as docker stats or docker logs . But then I discovered Docker Contexts . I created a new…
If you are a heavy Emacs user as me, you will have tried to move files between different machines using TRAMP . But this approach is not nice for large files. TRAMP is very slow for large files and it will block Emacs during the file transfer. Although dired-rsync could help with that, I decided to write my own solution, as this is a great usecase for the dwim-shell-command package I am testing…
tldr My dotfiles are now public on Gitlab 🎉 Publishing one's dotfiles can feel like posting naked pictures. It may show things that people wouldn't like to see. But I was finally brave to do it (publishing dotfiles). I think it's fair to publish them, as I have read many public dotfile repositories before writing mine. You can find my dotfiles on Gitlab . GNU stow To keep a repository with all…
tldr I moved the blog to an extremely simple static blog generator with no dependencies, no Javascript and no magic tricks. Just plain HTML and CSS . You can find the code here . If you have been following this blog for some time you will have noticed that I am not very good at keeping a routine of writing new blog posts every week (or even every month). There was something that created a lot of…