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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.
I Built an App With Almost No UI. That Was the Point.
The best review of my comedy app came from a table with four friends and a round of drinks — and my first version failed it. So I removed the joke format, then I removed the interface. Here is what a one-gesture app forces, why a 75-second ceiling is a table-length constraint, and the uncomfortable part for anyone whose day job is attention metrics.
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I Gave My 9-Agent Marketing Platform Away as Open Source
No. 05AIMy AI Bill Went From $200/Month to $45. I Shipped More, Not Less.
No. 06AII Evaluated 40 AI Podcasts Across 7 Languages. Six Pipeline Fixes Later, Here's What Improved.
No. 07AIHow I Write System Prompts That Actually Get Enforced (After My AI Hosts Said 'Trời ơi' 13 Times)
No. 08AIThe One Question That Killed an Entire Curriculum Architecture in a Week
No. 09AI6 Months, 3 Game Projects, 0 Shipped
No. 10AIThe Code Was the Easy Part of Shipping Prova
No. 11AII Tried to Clip My Course into a YouTube Video. Here's Why I Rebuilt It Instead.
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