mcbetz

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https://martinbetz.eu Book "How Tech Works - web technologies for your non-techie colleagues", will release after printing out and refining the draft, hopefully July 2026.
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Comment · 2 months ago
OpenCode Go, one subscription (currently 10$/month) with multiple models and fair token limits. Sometimes a bit slow, but good value for your buck.
Comment · 3 months ago
Alternative title: Text to speech in 9.36M, English only.
Comment · 4 months ago
In Erfurt since 2,5 hours. Out of office train driver keeps us updated from chats with fellow drivers (their sources say it is due to software update), radio is fixed now and trains processed one after another (starting with super fast ones - Munich > Berlin, e.g. - so the tracks get emptied quickly). Other interesting observations: when our train stopped, all hotels were already fully booked, as were coach tickets (Flixbus) that would run in the early morning. Crazy how fast people react to shocks.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
I observe that music OCR space and the only really good solution so far is soundslice. You scan and review some edge cases and get really good results. Paid service by a small company, very worthy to be supported!
Comment · 4 months ago
This reminds me of a learning resource that I can't find again: you start with an assessment of how many words you know and then you get new words in context with every session (and maybe some spaces repetition). It was mostly from newspaper articles and catered for every level of English. It was a website (ca 2013), not an app. Any ideas?
Comment · 4 months ago
I like the direction! But why stop with CRM functionality with very limited schema for tasks on the headless when OP has a lot more to offer there? Why stop at CRM plus Project Management then? Why not also schemas for ERP, HR, finance tools and all other business software? And we even bother with a custom made API when PostgreSQL and PostgREST could reduce the full thinking to the database schema?
Comment · 7 months ago
Mistral Voxtral has timestamps and diarization and does a good job for German (have not tested for other languages yet).
Comment · 8 months ago
Have been using it for transactional mails, that was okay. Have not tried it for non-transactional, esp. not in 20+ mio/months.
Comment · 8 months ago
It's also difficult to find providers for competetive large-scale non-transactional emails, i.e. marketing and newsletter mails.

None comes close to AWS, closest comes are messageflow (PL), elasticemail (PL), brevo (FR). Other players like Scaleway TEM (FR) and Lettermint (NL) don't offer non-transactional.

Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
You might benefit from LMArena's Leaderboard. It does not have Danish (yet), but German and English evaluation might help: https://lmarena.ai/de/leaderboard/text/german

Openrouter.ai shows the location of providers, you can find just a few European services, but also Singaporean and Canadian. Unfortunately, I could not find a way to filter easily.

Comment · 9 months ago

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