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InsightsUnsentLetters: A Home for Letters Nobody Sends (What Building an Anonymous Platform Actually Teaches You)UnsentLetters collects anonymous letters people never sent: no accounts, seven tags, a public feed. The build taught hard lessons about anonymity and moderation.BuildsMomoTTS: Neural Text-to-Speech That Never Leaves Your Android Phone (Piper + Kokoro Voices, Zero Cloud)MomoTTS runs Piper and Kokoro neural voices entirely on an Android phone: no account, no cloud, no per-character bill. Design, limits, checksums inside.InsightsGoogle's Gemini Decision 1 Answers 1,000 Questions in One Pass — for $0.10 per Million Tokens (2026)The Gemini Decisions API scores up to 1,000 bounded questions in a single forward pass — no text generation, no output tokens billed, 150–250 ms end to end. It is Google's answer to the decision-model wave OpenAI joined in October.Tutorialsuv: One Tool for Python Versions, Virtualenvs and Packages (The 10-Minute Setup That Replaces pip + venv + pyenv)uv replaces pip, venv, and pyenv with one Rust binary: install it, pin a Python version, manage a project, and know where pip still wins.InsightsPatcher Cat-and-Mouse: Why Android Patchers Break, Get Fixed, and Break Again (The Evergreen Explainer)Android patchers break on a cycle, not by accident. The mechanics of patch, counter-move, and re-patch, explained once and for all.Buildsimgagent: Rights-Checked Images for AI Agents (One JSON Contract, Verified Bytes)imgagent gives AI agents images with verified bytes and recorded licenses: one JSON contract, a rights gate, and honest negatives.Insights27B Parameters in 4GB: Bonsai's 1-Bit Model Runs on an 8GB GPU (2026)PrismML's Bonsai 27B squeezes a 54GB model into about 4GB with 1-bit weights — and XDA's Nolen Jonker says it runs on his 8GB GPU as smoothly as his 4B models.TutorialsMarkItDown Converts Almost Any File Into LLM-Ready Markdown (Microsoft's 194K-Star Tool, Setup Inside)MarkItDown converts PDFs, Office files, audio, and more into clean Markdown for LLMs. Install, CLI, Python API, and limits inside.InsightsOpenCut: The Open-Source CapCut Alternative in the Middle of a Rewrite (What Actually Works Today)OpenCut's 97,540 stars sit on a ground-up rewrite. The editor that works today is the archived classic, and the split matters.Buildsperfect-srt: The Subtitle Fixer That Refuses Bad Captions (Names Protected, Timing Repaired)perfect-srt fixes machine subtitle drafts with protected names, inherited timing, and seven pass/fail gates before any file ships.

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