How I set up a fully local voice pipeline for Claude Code on RHEL 10 using Whisper.cpp, Kokoro TTS, and Intel Meteor Lake GPU acceleration via PyTorch XPU — achieving a 22x speedup with no cloud dependencies.
There’s a lot of negativity toward AI in the Fedora and RHEL communities right now. I get it — the hype cycle is real, and a lot of the marketing is insufferable. But I think the negativity is causing people to tune out, and when you tune out, you miss genuinely cool work that’s directly
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Friday, January 30, 2026 | Brussels, Belgium Speakers: Brian Stinson & Scott McCarty At CentOS Connect 2026, Brian Stinson and I presented “Inside the RHEL 11 Planning Room: How Fedora and Stream Shape the Next Enterprise OS.” Abstract Red Hat is unveiling an early “60% plan” for RHEL 11, currently in development. This presentation explores
I just released my first MCP server: mcp-cloudflare-crunchtools. It lets Claude Code (and other MCP-compatible AI assistants) manage Cloudflare DNS records, Transform Rules, Page Rules, and cache. But this post isn’t really about Cloudflare—it’s about how I built this server and why I think it matters for the emerging MCP ecosystem. As I’ve gotten deeper
