From Java to Python
Jinja2 from the engine up
The same engine powers Flask pages, Ansible playbooks and static sites. Here is Jinja2 learned from the engine out - delimiters, autoescaping, inheritance and the Environment - with every concept run by hand, coming from the JVM.
23 Aug 2026
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7 min read
From Java to Python
Learning Python as a Java Dev: My On-Ramp to AI
I'm a Spring/Kafka backend engineer who could read Python but never wrote it. The AI world pulled me in, so I learned it by building a 10-lesson course that maps every concept back to Java, then built the tutor agent that taught me.
19 Aug 2026
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4 min read
Cloning my own voice on a CPU in 20 minutes with Pocket TTS
Kyutai's Pocket TTS is a 100M-param, CPU-only text-to-speech model that does zero-shot voice cloning. Getting it to clone my voice took one afternoon — two gotchas worth writing down (uvx isolation and the mp4 trap), plus a Claude Code skill so I can trigger it mid-session.
7 Jul 2026
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7 min read