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Audiobook Resume Player: My Private Listening Shelf

Private audiobook shelf Audiobooks that follow me from desk to couch to phone. I built a private audiobook resume player for my home network. It keeps my audiobook files in one place, saves my listening position on the server, and lets my phone, laptop, or desktop pick up from the same spot through home Wi-Fi or Tailscale. Open with Tailscale Open on home Wi-Fi Access note: The Tailscale link works only on devices signed into my private Tailscale network. Start playback before driving, then use hands-free controls. What it does Uploads or imports audiobooks, streams large M4B/MP3 files, and resumes from the last saved position across devices. Current shelf Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks imported from Google Drive, with real titles, book covers, and progress tracking. Private by design Files stay on my machine. The app is password-protected a...

When AI Tools Start Building AI Tools

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A Deep Dive AI look at the next step after prompt engineering: using AI to design, write, test, and improve the tools that help us create. There is a strange little moment in every technology journey when the tool stops feeling like a tool and starts acting like the intern who somehow learned the filing system faster than you did. At first, AI is the thing you ask questions. Then it becomes the thing that helps you write. Then it becomes the thing that helps you organize. Then it becomes the thing that helps you build the thing that helps you organize the thing you were originally trying to write. That sentence is technically accurate, but it also sounds like a raccoon got into the whiteboard markers. Welcome to the next stage of the AI creator workflow: using AI tools to build new AI tools. Not just asking ChatGPT for a blog idea. Not just asking Codex to fix a typo. Not just asking an image model to make a thumbnail with glowing robots and a cat who clearly ...