April 17, 2026

Self-Hosted TTS for Developer Tools with Kokoro

How to run local text-to-speech for dev tools using Kokoro, an 82M parameter model that renders speech in 50ms on GPU. No API costs, no latency, no cloud dependency.

April 17, 2026

Building Ambient Awareness Into Your Dev Workflow

How calm technology principles apply to multi-agent coding. Three layers of awareness tuned to different urgency levels, so information reaches you without demanding attention.

April 17, 2026

How to Monitor Claude Code Agents with Audio Notifications

Step-by-step guide to setting up audio notifications for Claude Code agents. Install Radio Agent, connect the skills, and hear completions, failures, and status updates over ambient music.

April 5, 2026

Building a Radio Station for AI Agents

We built a radio station that plays ambient music and announces what AI coding agents are doing. This is the story of why, how, and what we learned about calm technology along the way.