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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 22/04/2026

Another write-up this week on Speed of Sound letsdatascience.com/news/speed-o...

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 11/04/2026

New Speed of Sound release is out! You can now use NVIDIA Parakeet and Canary models for on-device transcription, alongside Whisper. More models = better accuracy across languages + more offline/private options. Flathub/Snapcraft links & install instructions on www.speedofsound.io/getting-star...

NVIDIA Parakeet and Canary models now available on Speed of Sound.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 05/04/2026

@zugaldia@mastodon.social :) but I won't pretend I'm very active there (yet?)

Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to week

On unrelated news, you should read TWIG this week. I hear it comes with particularly good app announcements this week. thisweek.gnome.org//posts/2026/...

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#243 Delayed Trains

Now featuring much easier installation :) bsky.app/profile/zuga...

It only took me 9 months, but I finally did it! bsky.app/profile/zuga...

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 09/12/2025

Great news: My little voice typing app for Linux is now available on both Flathub and Snapcraft. Links for both here: www.speedofsound.io/getting-star...

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Instant pre-order. Love the form factor, and the hackability even more.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 07/11/2025

This is exactly my setup but with a more modest model and a Jetson Thor dev kit. I also set up Riva with Whisper for local speech recognition (I'm surprised Ollama does not support audio input yet).

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 15/10/2025

Love this. It's a win-win, we listeners get no ads and the publisher gets a stickier subscription. If you're looking for another high quality podcast with a similar no ads option check out @latenightlinux.bsky.social .

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 12/10/2025

@8none1.org I just heard your comment about voice being the future of typing in a recent LNL episode. And I agree 100%. That's why I built github.com/zugaldia/spe..., which I've been using daily for most of my typing for months now. Feedback/contributions always welcome.

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GitHub - zugaldia/speedofsound: Voice typing for the Linux desktop.

Voice typing for the Linux desktop. Contribute to zugaldia/speedofsound development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 03/10/2025

Benevolent organizers for life.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 03/10/2025

DevFestDC is today! Find me to talk AI and @mapbox.com (and, oh yes, we're hiring).

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 21/09/2025

My experience using the Meta Ray-Ban glasses for the last six months or so, where I make the case that audio, not vision, is the current killer feature for smart glasses: www.zugaldia.com/notes/smart-...

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Meta Ray-Ban: Great speakers disguised as glasses - Antonio Zugaldia

Homepage and Notes

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 21/09/2025

I've been using Gen-1 for the last six months or so, but my (generally positive) notes were getting too long for Bluesky, so I posted them here: www.zugaldia.com/notes/smart-...

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Meta Ray-Ban: Great speakers disguised as glasses - Antonio Zugaldia

Homepage and Notes

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 16/09/2025

I'm ready to throw some money at whoever is printing t-shirts with that ultrathink design.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 13/09/2025

You spent the last 10 years building robots, in retrospect it was unavoidable one day the lines blurred and you joined them.

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 10/09/2025

With those options it's just impossible to go wrong.

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 08/09/2025

I'll be introducing our new Feedback Agent later today @ 12.30 PST, ping/DM me here if you have any questions!

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 03/09/2025

"Without music, life would be a mistake." -- Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 02/09/2025

> and says it has a $5B+ revenue run-rate (Anthropic) And about half of that is me paying for Claude Code.

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 31/08/2025

I have no idea what happened but I can't help but feel disappointed. I liked your style, transparency, and direction you were setting. Wishing you the best!

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Robert Asumendi @robertasumendi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I designed the biggest binoculars in the world (that you can buy) and they're for looking at outer space 🔭 🌌. Early access is a big step for our nano-scale mom-and-pop business to bring this model to life! www.analogsky.co/bloom

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World's Biggest Binocular Telescope Model. 8" / 200mm Binoculars — Analog Sky

Analog Sky Bloom 8" reverse Newtonian binocular telescope gives you the most immersive views of the cosmos. Smart electronics combine with thoughtful design to create a whole new stargazing experience...

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My favorite use case is creating custom map styles, which I'm pretty bad at. “Create a Halloween-themed map. Make it look spooky and fun.”

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It's like these PhD-level machines haven't lost their inner kid after all.

Great advice for LLMs in particular and life in general (context: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488...).

I've spent a lot of time trying to get LLM to generate things in a specific way, the biggest take away I have is, if you tell it "don't do xyz" it will always have in the back of its mind "do xyz" and any chance it gets it will take to "do xyz". When working on art projects, my trick is to specifically give all feedback constructively, carefully avoiding framing things in terms of the inverse or parts to remove.

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DevFestDC is back! In collaboration with @developers.google.com, this year we're running a one-day event themed around generative AI and emerging technologies. More information about tickets and how to apply to speak on www.devfestdc.org

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 29/07/2025

Clear your LLM context early and often. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 22/07/2025

The lack of reassurance on the post likely means sadly the death of the product.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 21/07/2025

165 WPM is very good, considering that the average user types at 35 to 45 WPM. Not only you're giving your hands a break, you are typing faster.

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 21/07/2025

This is very interesting. I particularly like the proposal under the hood for a lightweight mobile MCP implementation that is Android native.

Zach Israel @zachisrael.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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I’m still in disbelief that *two-thirds* of the DC Council voted today to fully fund ranked-choice voting in the District beginning in June 2026! What an amazing day for local democracy! And a huge shoutout to every single DC resident who worked toward this moment.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 11/07/2025

I didn't forget about you! I just merged support for Flatpaks on main. If you know of any experts who could check my math, I would appreciate it. My plan is to submit it to Flathub in a couple of weeks (after some international travel). github.com/zugaldia/spe...

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GitHub - zugaldia/speedofsound: Voice typing for the Linux desktop.

Voice typing for the Linux desktop. Contribute to zugaldia/speedofsound development by creating an account on GitHub.