Speech-to-Text in 2026: Hosted APIs and Models You Can Run Yourself
Hosted APIs versus open models you can run yourself, compared on accuracy, price per audio-hour, diarization, and what self-hosting actually costs.
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The Pen Is a Virgin, the Printing Press a Whore
AI is feared as dangerous and mocked for producing junk. Five centuries ago, the printing press drew both complaints. History shows the argument is not new.
MVP List — A Collaborated Weekend Planner Powered by GBrain and GStack
Two tired parents, a one-year-old, and a thousand bookmarked places we keep meaning to visit. Here is the small planning agent we built so that every Saturday no longer starts with the same question: 'so... where are we going today?'
Maintain Your Personal Distro — Part 2: The How (revised)
A technical deep-dive into why Carried Patch Queue (CPQ) is the gold standard for individuals maintaining their own software stacks in 2026 — and why the old ways of managing downstreams will eventually kill your project.
Maintain Your Personal Distro — Part 1: The Why
It is now possible for each person to maintain their own personal distro with AI: a fast-moving, opinionated downstream version of software that continuously rebases on upstream while preserving your own defaults, workflows, and carried patches.
Design System Skills for AI Agentic Development: The 5 Most-Discussed Approaches on X
Figma is invisible to AI agents. Developers across X have spent the past two weeks converging on the same fix: make design principles explicit, structured, and agent-executable.