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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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
This is the way….. Have three day planning meeting with 15 people, for a large product with 2000+ people involved in total Use Jira or other tracking software to refine Market Problems and Features Use auto-transcribe for most meetings, but have a couple of non-recorded meetings to discuss sensitive topics Share the transcripts with the
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It was late last night. The kids were finally in bed, the house was quiet, and I found myself with that dangerous combination of exhaustion and curiosity. I had a couple of hours of freedom, and I decided to tackle something that had been itching to do for a while: getting Claude Code running on
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Listen to the full podcast here: https://linearb.io/dev-interrupted/podcast/open-source-meets-AI
Articles/News Dev Interrupted Podcast: Open Source Meets AI – Scott McCarty The Open Source AI Definition – 1.0 Stack Overflow Podcast: The world’s largest open-source business has plans for enhancing LLMs – Scott McCarty InfoWorld: Applying the lessons of open source to generative AI – Scott McCarty InfoWorld: Kubernetes shows the way forward for AI
I recently wrote this to highlight real world use cases where I believe LLMs/Generative can actually help. Instead of fluff, I tried to break down real challenges for sysadmins. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3482087/what-generative-ai-can-do-for-sysadmins.html
I wrote an article that explains why community-driven open source is especially important with AI: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2337481/kubernetes-shows-the-way-forward-for-ai.html
Background In Part 1: Asking Other Teams to Do Something Really Hard, we explored two simple examples of when asking a person or team something really simple turns into something really inefficient. In that first article, we used simple examples, like new users asking simple questions over and over on Reddit or a mailing list.
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