Making Text to Speech Usable: Introducing Valeon TTS Studio
A local-first, bring-your-own-key wrapper around the OpenAI TTS API that turns a script-based pipeline into a daily-usable studio—open source, auditable, and easy to self-host.
Science & Technology
From physics to software — models and tools that reshape capability and constraint.
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RSS feedThe Illusion of Reality
A philosophical walk through the holographic principle—how black holes hint that information scales with surface area, and what that might imply about emergence, time, and causality.
Life at the Edge
From melanized fungi growing in Chernobyl’s radioactive ruins to bacteria learning to break down plastics and microbes thriving in scorching vents and subzero ice, this essay explores how life keeps finding a way—by adapting, specializing, and rewriting the boundaries of “habitable.”
The Logistics of Civilisation
A meditation on how water, trade routes, and the physics of movement shaped where cities formed—and how the human body itself quietly authored the logic of streets, corridors, and built space.
The Prime Effect
Modern businesses don’t just sell products—they build systems. From cross-subsidy and loss leaders to subscriptions like Prime, profitability is increasingly engineered across an ecosystem, over time, by shaping habit and default choice.
The Human in the Equation
A reflection on how human experience—memory, agency, language, and narrative—shapes the frameworks we build, and what that means for time, causality, and the limits of physics as a “mirror” of reality.
The Symmetry Compulsion
An essay on why symmetry comforts the mind, how science and mathematics chase invariance, and why asymmetry—through breaking, chirality, primes, and time’s arrow—is the texture that makes life and meaning possible.
Income in Motion: Introducing GigFin
An introduction to GigFin, a free and open source income tracking app built for gig workers navigating multiple platforms and seeking clearer insight into their earnings.
Hacking, Exploits, and the Hidden Bazaar of Power
An exploration of how hacking and exploit markets serve not only criminals but also governments, intelligence institutions, and security companies that quietly purchase and weaponise systemic insecurity.
The Metabolic Pause: How Fasting Lets the Body Heal Itself
A contemplative exploration of fasting as a metabolic pause that lowers insulin, awakens glucagon and ketones, and gives the liver, brain, and cells the time and space they need to repair.