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Training a custom Piper TTS Voice

Training a custom Piper TTS Voice

There are a few TTS tools out there, and in recent years, more and more AI-based ones have been released. In my opinion, the best tool for voice cloning is Voicebox; it can be installed from GitHub and runs on Windows, working out of the box (pun intended). Under the

Pocketbase

PocketBase - Open Source backend in 1 fileOpen Source backend in 1 file with realtime database, authentication, file storage and admin dashboardPocketBase v0.36.5 I recently got around to trying PocketBase and wanted to share my thoughts and the challenges I faced. My first impression is really positive: PocketBase

Building an open mapping stack

Building an open mapping stack

I started working on a little vacation planner app as a side project. It's nothing fancy – just a map with markers on one side and a list of places on the other. I find it helpful for figuring out which places are close enough to visit in a

Rendering .vox Files

Rendering .vox Files

MagicaVoxel I recently stumbled upon the free voxel tool which lets you create and render 3d voxel models like this: At the time, I was experimenting with an isometric-perspective game and considering creating 3D voxel models, which I would then render as 2D PNGs. MagicaVoxel seemed like the perfect tool

Recovering saved wifi networks from my old Huawei Smartphone

Recovering saved wifi networks from my old Huawei Smartphone

I recently got a new smartphone, but have been unable to find a way to transfer the saved Wi-Fi networks from my old phone to my new one. All the online tutorials just say "go to settings and generate a QR code" but it just does not work.

Creating a cozy stream background

Creating a cozy stream background

The base image My goal was to create a cozy co-working background of a monitor in a room. Since I have zero artistic skill I opted to fiddle around with AI generated images. Using ComfyUI I generated a few images. I used the "dreamshaper xl v21 turbo" checkpoint/

Wave Function Collapse Experiment

Wave Function Collapse Experiment

So right from the start: apparently it has nothing to do with the quantum concept it was named after ^^ There seem to be two versions: texture and tile mode. I will be using tile mode. For a better explanation check out this awesome article by Boris! Tiles and Edges In

developing shared npm packages locally

developing shared npm packages locally

My second post on this blog was about how complicated it seems to be to develop shared npm packages locally. I decided to take another crack at finding a better workflow. The situation is more or less the same, I have hop, my scss/vue component library which I use

How I added svg icons to my vue component library

How I added svg icons to my vue component library

There are different ways how you might add icons to your application or website, the most common thing when I started doing frontend development was using an icon font like fontawesome. Webfonts The way these work is by having an html element with a class, this class gets a special

Vue Component Workbench

Vue Component Workbench

In my projects I've been using my vue/scss framework "hop". Whenever I add new components or change something, it is quite helpful to have an instance of webpack running inside the hop project to see my changes in realtime instead of publishing a new version

Why I'm not switching to vite yet

Why I'm not switching to vite yet

Twisted paths While searching for a markdown based Static-Site Generation (SSG) to build a documentation page I came across vuepress, first I started with vuepress 1 but since I wanted to install it in my existing project (which uses vue 3 and vuepress 1 does not support vue 3) I

Building a Code Search

Building a Code Search

I came across the application sourcegraph which is an awesome code search tool that allows you to search across multiple repositories fast (plus a lot of other awesome features). Under the hood it uses "zoekt", a trigram based search index which was a independent project but is now