Open Source Voice Agents Get Real-Time Speech in Hermes v0.20.0OriginalHermes Agent v0.20.0 brings streaming TTS, barge-in, on-device wake words, and pluggable STT/TTS to open source voice agents. Released August 3, 2026.Voice AI
An Open Source TTS Model That Edits Words After RecordingOriginalViiTorVoice-NAR is an open-source TTS model that can replace individual words inside finished audio without regenerating the surrounding content. It also clones voices without needing a transcript.Voice AI
Five SDKs, one streaming API: a maintenance retrospectiveOriginalMaintaining five SDKs for one streaming voice API taught me things about developer experience that no spec review ever could. Here is what I learned.Developer Experience
Friday fun: bat is cat with syntax highlightingOriginalbat shows file contents with syntax highlighting, line numbers, and a pager. It replaces cat with the same muscle memory and a lot more useful output.TIL
The invisible work of voice AI SDKsOriginalFour years of maintaining voice AI SDKs across half a dozen languages. The work that never makes the changelog.Developer Experience
TIL: Running Containers Without Docker With PodmanOriginalPodman runs OCI containers with the same CLI as Docker but daemonless and rootless by default. No Docker Desktop needed.TIL
TIL: Creating Python Packages With pyproject.tomlOriginalpyproject.toml replaces setup.py as the standard Python packaging config. One file declares dependencies, build system, and metadata.TIL
TIL: Testing npm Packages Locally With npm linkOriginalnpm link creates a symlink so your local package behaves like an installed one. Test SDK changes in a real project before publishing.TIL
TIL: Semantic Versioning With the semver CLIOriginalThe semver CLI validates, compares, and increments version strings from the terminal. No more manual math on MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.TIL
TIL: Building a CLI Tool With commander.js in Node.jsOriginalcommander.js parses flags, subcommands, and help text from a declarative config. A working CLI takes about ten lines of setup.TIL
TIL: Running GitHub Actions Locally With actOriginalact runs your GitHub Actions workflows on your machine using Docker. No push-and-pray, iterate locally first.TIL