The notebook
Workshop & writing notes
The tinkering half of the same curiosity behind the books: things I build, things that break, and the occasional note on how the novels get made.
- On writing
The people the record forgets
Why I keep writing about survivors and makers instead of the names carved into the column.
- Tinkering
Teaching a machine to say sàndali
What started as "let me generate an audiobook of my novel" became a linguistics rabbit hole, a licensing detective story, and a fine-tuned Italian voice model with provable provenance. A field report.
- Tinkering
Getting Joule to work with Home Assistant
How two extra bytes in a protobuf message kept a Bluetooth sous-vide silent for 30+ versions — and the iOS packet capture that finally revealed why.