Code and Life

This write-up was created with AI assistance.

This write-up was created with AI assistance.

This write-up was created with AI assistance.

This write-up was created with AI assistance.

This write-up was created with AI assistance.

KittenTTS is a neat open-source text-to-speech model that packs a surprising amount of punch in sizes as low as 25 MB.

tl;dr Wrote a HTML based debug tool and two mini games for Novation LaunchPad, try it out on Chrome if you have one: https://tools.codeandlife.com/launchpad_test.html Longer version (templated with Claude Sonnet using the github commit): I've been thinking

Very small cross-advertisement: I finally got around to revamp my personal website, eliminating a lot of autobiographical jabber.

You might have noticed things look a bit different around here.

I've been doing some housekeeping on my website, moving various small tools and experiments that were scattered in subfolders to a proper home at tools.codeandlife.com.

After setting up tools.codeandlife.com last week, I needed to actually create some tools for it.

I released the JUnzip library back in 2014 as a minimalistic C library for reading ZIP files without heavy dependencies.

Simon Willison is writing great coverage on LLM, and his little web toolbox at https://tools.simonwillison.net/ got me inspired — use Github Pages to make any file in a tools repository automatically available.

After about 6 years in hiatus, AI vibe coding finally enabled me to update my JavaScript-based Go board rendering library, jGoBoard.

I haven't written much about the new fancy AI tools in the blog, so I thought I'll do a short writeup on a sample workflow through ChatGPT, VS Code with GitHub Copilot and Claude Code that resulted in a fully working food diary app in about one hour from…

***Update 2025: I've had more trouble with this fish binding than it is worth.

After a bit of AI hiatus, I noticed that llama 3.0 models were released and wanted to try the models.

Continuing the awesome and not so unique stream of ideas on what to do with ChatGPT, here's a bit modified take to my previous post on self-running ChatGPT generated Python code.

I previously covered how to run your own ChatGPT script with Python and Golang.

OpenAI came out with ChatGPT, and wow, that is quite something.