Links #2025-10 - TTS, Talks, and Tcl/Tk

Articles or videos I found last week that I actually read and watched until the end.

• Kokoro Local TTS + Custom Voices - www.youtube.com

  Sam Witteveen's tutorials on LLMs are always clear, concise and very easy to follow along. Here he shows how to use Kokoro, the latest hip text to speech model, that runs on your own laptop. There is a link to a Colab notebook in the description.

• Other kinds of talks - www.scattered-thoughts.net

  A plea to go beyond the simple "I did this" format in talks. "If you haven't done any work then you don't have anything worth sharing." Maybe this applies to blogs too.

• Tcl/Tk application binaries through Go - wiki.tcl-lang.org

  Tcl/Tk is one of those old technologies that keep eliciting fond memories from Unix greybeards. A supposedly simple and elegant way to create GUI apps. I never got around to giving it a try, but here we learn that one can use it directly from within Go. I guess I'll have no choice.

• The Deep Research problem - www.ben-evans.com

  Ben lists issues with LLM-style deep research. Essentially the same issues that apply to all LLM use, that you'd think everyone would know by now. But predictably, many people will still fall into these traps. Probably repeatedly.

• If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown - p.migdal.pl

  The argument has always been true, but it seems to get more pressing every day. You cannot count on the internet to preserve important information for you.

• How Core Git Developers Configure Git - blog.gitbutler.com

  This motivates me to finally configure some quality of life improvements for git. Really. But I am busy today, so I'll do it tomorrow. Or maybe the day after.