RAG tricks from the trenches

I'm flying over the Atlantic just between France and Spain for my yearly Christmas trip back to Lisbon. For some reason, I just remembered the blog post I always wanted to write. This one is not about tech, but it's about something I'm equally passionate about: The Marathon. Funnily - I'm …

For the past year, this website's podcast companion has been running on a text-to-speech model called XTTS-v2. It's not horrible. And those who have heard my voice before might notice some similarities. But it's far from a pleasant listenning experience. But the world of text-to-speech (TTS) has been gradually moving …

For the past years Vitto and I have used Tricount to track our shared expenses. The app is actually pretty good, but there’s one small thing that annoys me quite a bit. Even though we spoke English to each other for the first month, we’ve since spoken a …

For a short summer break, Vitto challenged me to visit Iceland with her. As someone that is used to going south for the summer - this sounded stupid at first, but I was incredibly surprised. For 6 days, we were pretty much in another planet. Here are some notes and tips …