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Knora 1.2 Is on the App Store
Knora 1.2 is live: fifteen English voices, four accents, a deleted style axis, and two audio defects fixed. The joke now lives in the voice.
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The Voice Is the Joke
I rebuilt Knora's English cast, deleted the style axis, and found two audio defects every test said were fine. The update is live — and the lesson is not really about comedy.
My Mac Died. I Rebuilt It With Chrome and DeepSeek.
My Mac died, so I wiped it and started again with nothing but Chrome and one agent harness. The machine now has about 60 GB more free space than before, and I have stopped thinking in applications.
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I Built an App With Almost No UI. That Was the Point.
No. 05AII Gave My 9-Agent Marketing Platform Away as Open Source
No. 06AIMy AI Bill Went From $200/Month to $45. I Shipped More, Not Less.
No. 07AIOffline Mode for My AI App Didn't Need AI. It Needed Boring.
No. 08AINative Isn't a Skin: Rebuilding DIALØGUE's iOS App
No. 09AII Rebuilt My Site With Two AI Models: Opus for Design, Codex for Execution
No. 10AII Rolled Back 2,724 Lines After One AI Audio Change Broke Production
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