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Antonio Zugaldia

@zugaldia.com

Building stuff, one thing at a time. Voice engineering at Mapbox. Former WHO and Silica Labs. Physicist. I have a bad feeling about this mission.

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NEVER FORGET.

03.02.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Instant pre-order. Love the form factor, and the hackability even more.

09.12.2025 18:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@technologyreview.com is the new @wired.com.

28.11.2025 08:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good move about the camera, bad move about the speaker www.zugaldia.com/notes/smart-...

15.11.2025 18:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is exactly my setup but with a more modest model and a Jetson Thor dev kit. I also set up Riva with Whisper for local speech recognition (I'm surprised Ollama does not support audio input yet).

07.11.2025 12:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love this. It's a win-win, we listeners get no ads and the publisher gets a stickier subscription. If you're looking for another high quality podcast with a similar no ads option check out @latenightlinux.bsky.social .

15.10.2025 14:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - zugaldia/speedofsound: Voice typing for the Linux desktop. Voice typing for the Linux desktop. Contribute to zugaldia/speedofsound development by creating an account on GitHub.

@8none1.org I just heard your comment about voice being the future of typing in a recent LNL episode. And I agree 100%. That's why I built github.com/zugaldia/spe..., which I've been using daily for most of my typing for months now. Feedback/contributions always welcome.

12.10.2025 13:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Benevolent organizers for life.

03.10.2025 13:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DevFestDC is today! Find me to talk AI and @mapbox.com (and, oh yes, we're hiring).

03.10.2025 12:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Meta Ray-Ban: Great speakers disguised as glasses - Antonio Zugaldia Homepage and Notes

My experience using the Meta Ray-Ban glasses for the last six months or so, where I make the case that audio, not vision, is the current killer feature for smart glasses: www.zugaldia.com/notes/smart-...

21.09.2025 19:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Meta Ray-Ban: Great speakers disguised as glasses - Antonio Zugaldia Homepage and Notes

I've been using Gen-1 for the last six months or so, but my (generally positive) notes were getting too long for Bluesky, so I posted them here: www.zugaldia.com/notes/smart-...

21.09.2025 19:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm ready to throw some money at whoever is printing t-shirts with that ultrathink design.

16.09.2025 18:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You spent the last 10 years building robots, in retrospect it was unavoidable one day the lines blurred and you joined them.

13.09.2025 16:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

With those options it's just impossible to go wrong.

10.09.2025 11:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'll be introducing our new Feedback Agent later today @ 12.30 PST, ping/DM me here if you have any questions!

08.09.2025 15:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a pixel art illustration of a pink wizard with a beard holding a cane . ALT: a pixel art illustration of a pink wizard with a beard holding a cane .
05.09.2025 20:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Without music, life would be a mistake." -- Friedrich Nietzsche.

03.09.2025 10:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

> and says it has a $5B+ revenue run-rate (Anthropic)

And about half of that is me paying for Claude Code.

02.09.2025 19:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I have no idea what happened but I can't help but feel disappointed. I liked your style, transparency, and direction you were setting. Wishing you the best!

31.08.2025 13:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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World's Biggest Binocular Telescope Model. 8" / 200mm Binoculars β€” Analog Sky Analog Sky Bloom 8" reverse Newtonian binocular telescope gives you the most immersive views of the cosmos. Smart electronics combine with thoughtful design to create a whole new stargazing experience...

I designed the biggest binoculars in the world (that you can buy) and they're for looking at outer space πŸ”­ 🌌. Early access is a big step for our nano-scale mom-and-pop business to bring this model to life! www.analogsky.co/bloom

26.08.2025 20:19 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

My favorite use case is creating custom map styles, which I'm pretty bad at. β€œCreate a Halloween-themed map. Make it look spooky and fun.”

13.08.2025 19:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's like these PhD-level machines haven't lost their inner kid after all.

13.08.2025 14:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
I've spent a lot of time trying to get LLM to generate things in a specific way, the biggest take away I have is, if you tell it "don't do xyz" it will always have in the back of its mind "do xyz" and any chance it gets it will take to "do xyz". When working on art projects, my trick is to specifically give all feedback constructively, carefully avoiding framing things in terms of the inverse or parts to remove.

I've spent a lot of time trying to get LLM to generate things in a specific way, the biggest take away I have is, if you tell it "don't do xyz" it will always have in the back of its mind "do xyz" and any chance it gets it will take to "do xyz". When working on art projects, my trick is to specifically give all feedback constructively, carefully avoiding framing things in terms of the inverse or parts to remove.

Great advice for LLMs in particular and life in general (context: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488...).

13.08.2025 14:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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DevFestDC is back! In collaboration with @developers.google.com, this year we're running a one-day event themed around generative AI and emerging technologies. More information about tickets and how to apply to speak on www.devfestdc.org

13.08.2025 10:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Clear your LLM context early and often. www.science.org/content/arti...

29.07.2025 17:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The lack of reassurance on the post likely means sadly the death of the product.

22.07.2025 22:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

165 WPM is very good, considering that the average user types at 35 to 45 WPM. Not only you're giving your hands a break, you are typing faster.

21.07.2025 16:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is very interesting. I particularly like the proposal under the hood for a lightweight mobile MCP implementation that is Android native.

21.07.2025 16:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m still in disbelief that *two-thirds* of the DC Council voted today to fully fund ranked-choice voting in the District beginning in June 2026! What an amazing day for local democracy! And a huge shoutout to every single DC resident who worked toward this moment.

14.07.2025 21:24 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - zugaldia/speedofsound: Voice typing for the Linux desktop. Voice typing for the Linux desktop. Contribute to zugaldia/speedofsound development by creating an account on GitHub.

I didn't forget about you! I just merged support for Flatpaks on main. If you know of any experts who could check my math, I would appreciate it. My plan is to submit it to Flathub in a couple of weeks (after some international travel).
github.com/zugaldia/spe...

11.07.2025 14:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0