From Noisy Kenyan ID OCR to JSON with MLX and Candle
Fine-tune a 50M-parameter model on synthetic Kenyan ID OCR, measure field-level accuracy, and package the fused F16 weights for Candle inference in Rust.
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From PP-OCRv6 Text to Kenyan ID JSON
A measured walkthrough of the modes, schema, synthetic fixture, and small understanding model I put around PP-OCRv6 to extract Kenyan ID fields locally.
Schedule Codex Routines as Finite Runs
How my Mattermost bridge keeps recurring schedules outside Codex, gives each run explicit state, and records the result without leaving an agent goal alive.
How I Run Codex from Mattermost on My Phone
The architecture, bridge, and security boundary behind my self-hosted Mattermost interface to Codex on a local development machine.
Why I Built a Desktop UI for Perplexity's Bumblebee Scanner
I built a Flutter desktop UI for Perplexity's Bumblebee scanner to make scan scope, package inventory, exact exposure matches, diagnostics, and history easier to inspect.
Building a Review-Focused Flutter Client for Jules
How I built a Flutter client that keeps Jules sessions, approvals, and code diffs in one workspace, with account-scoped caching and visible sync state.
Building Dream TTS Around Durable Local Speech Jobs
How Dream TTS separates its Flutter interface from Rust synthesis work so document imports, resumable jobs, model files, and private audio stay manageable.
Testing Local TTS: Pronunciation, Latency, and Release Gates
A practical quality loop for local text-to-speech: representative fixtures, contextual normalization, useful latency metrics, defect labels, and release checks.
Designing a Stable API for Local Text-to-Speech
A practical design for keeping engine selection, sentence queues, playback, voice packages, and recovery behind one local speech service.
Shipping Piper as a Cross-Platform Local TTS Runtime
A practical design for packaging Piper, wrapping its CLI, and testing local speech synthesis across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
A Field Guide to Shipping Local TTS Across Platforms
How to choose, benchmark, package, and isolate a local text-to-speech stack without treating a good demo as production evidence.
Caching Service Tokens in Gravitee with a Loopback API
How an internal loopback API let us cache auth responses in Gravitee after the Groovy sandbox and OAuth2 resource ruled out simpler approaches.
