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.
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Changelog, releases and housekeeping for the site and projects.
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RSS feedI use arch, btw
Returning to Arch Linux becomes a reminder that good systems don’t shout: they simplify, sharpen, and get out of the way. Through that lens, this post reflects on resisting feature-bloat, and shares quiet quality-of-life updates to Valeon and GigFin.
Sayed Hamid FatimiSF5 min readIncome 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.
Valeon: Listening in Motion
A behind-the-scenes tour of Valeon’s new audio and math pipeline—OpenAI TTS, MathJax + Speech Rule Engine, and MFA-powered word-level highlighting—focused on making reading and listening feel more like a living companion than a static archive.
Sayed Hamid FatimiSF9 min readValeon: A New Name, A Larger We
The Contemplative Path is now Valeon—a rebrand aligned with strength, clarity, and long-horizon, systems-level thinking. We’re opening submissions, rolling out improved author profile pages, and continuing to ship reader- and contributor-friendly improvements across the stack.
Sayed Hamid FatimiSF3 min readA New Beginning—with Speed Bumps
A quick tour of recent upgrades: Vercel-powered builds, end-to-end image optimization, clean print styles, a Buttondown newsletter, an OpenDyslexic reading option, saner taxonomies, an Obsidian+Git authoring flow, open-sourced Markdown posts, and a new OpenAI-TTS audio pipeline with podcast RSS.
Sayed Hamid FatimiSF4 min readTo a New Beginning
Six days off, a fresh Astro build, and a clean slate for writing: better theming and layout control, first-class LaTeX, and the freedom to ship my own features—because I thought I could code this better myself, and I did.
The Philosophy of Markets: Money, Truth, and the Future of Finance
Sayed Hamid Fatimi's "The Philosophy of Markets" challenges conventional views on trading, suggesting that markets are not neutral but adversarial systems that exploit predictability and emotions. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding market structure, belief, and behavior over traditional analytical methods. It also discusses emerging financial alternatives like crypto and decentralized systems, proposing a shift toward a post-institutional world.