Readit Newswilliamsss commented on Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text docs.hyprnote.com/owhispe... · Posted by u/yujonglee
Question for folks who work a lot with STT models - What is your favorite model that supports word-level timestamps, has good dysfluency detection (whisper isn't great), and is also supported by transformers.js?
A few months ago I had to work around a problem like this and the best out there was WhisperX. Not sure about transformer.js support.
Link to the repo - https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX
williamsss commented on My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures sankalp.bearblog.dev/my-c... · Posted by u/dejavucoder
As a daily active user of Cursor and CC user myself, it’s gratifying to discover nuanced tricks that push productivity further. I stumble upon one every now and again.
Solid write up. And chock full of useful tricks!
I was manually copy pasting PR change requests today to CC where some of this would have saved my wrists some pain.
williamsss commented on Go is a good fit for agents docs.hatchet.run/blog/go-... · Posted by u/abelanger
Choosing Python over JavaScript is one of the more perplexing decisions I've seen.
JavaScript has known issues with math. It should be avoided for that reason alone, no?
There’s something that’s embittered me about the subscription model and projects made purely for greed. I particularly enjoy supporting projects fiscally which that are passion projects that they could probably charge more for.
https://www.keybr.com - shows ads if you want to use it for free or you can pay a small fee to remove ads. The code is open-sourced so you can make your own. Helped me get the hang of split keyboards and was money well spent to support.
https://enso.sonnet.io - ingenious idea that has helped me write without loosing focus editing myself. The solo developer guy shares an entertaining blog full of illustrations and rich content. his project is available to download in full from Gumroad for a small one time fee.
If there’s any projects you know of like these please share them!
williamsss commented on Ditching Obsidian and building my own amberwilliams.io/blogs/bu... · Posted by u/williamsss
Funny - I went the opposite direction. Built my PKM in neovim (still a works in progress) + lua + markdown [main plugins I use is treesitter, telescope]; the upside? It's the same tool I use for editing all of my code, config, documentation. I have already re-implemented features such as Dataview and Tasks (not a 1:1 re-implementation, but covering the gaps) using common shell tools (i.e. lua, rg, sed, etc). I have written a few small functions, plugins for neovim that I use myself. I've kept it as barebones and minimal as possible (don't want to overbuild) so I can maintain it myself and not incur maintenance cost for this.
I sync using git between my two laptops - I have given up on mobile sync as I realize: I rarely need to edit my notes on the go, it's mostly for view only, and most of my deep work is on the laptop anyways. Yes, I have a "3 copies - 2 locations - 1 remote" backup system in place (I upload an encrypted volume once a week to iCloud [I'm already paying for it] for my remote).
I wanted to eliminate a dependency on proprietary tools and I've found a way to manage my notes in the same way I manage everything else - using my filesystem, and common open source tools.
Sounds cool. Is it open-source?
williamsss commented on Ditching Obsidian and building my own amberwilliams.io/blogs/bu... · Posted by u/williamsss
I was hesitating to start writing my own PKMS. Today I started: Lisp and postgresql, thanks for writing this post!
Nice one
Ultimately, I chose a cloud-based GPU setup, as the highest-performing diarization models required a GPU to process properly. Happy to share more if you’re going that route.