https://wip.tf/tags/self-hosted/ Recent content in Self-Hosted on Wɪᴘ In Progress… Hugo en-us Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:08:21 -0400 https://wip.tf/posts/turn-your-favorite-rss-feeds-into-podcasts/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:03:25 -0400 https://wip.tf/posts/turn-your-favorite-rss-feeds-into-podcasts/ <div class="text-to-speech-container"> <span class="text-to-speech-label">Listen to this post:</span> <audio class="text-to-speech-audio" controls> <source src="https://wip.tf/audio/tts/turn-your-favorite-rss-feeds-into-podcasts.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"> </audio> </div> <script> (function() { var a = document.createElement('audio'); if (a.canPlayType && a.canPlayType('audio/wav')) { var els = document.querySelectorAll('.text-to-speech-container'); for (var i = 0; i < els.length; i++) els[i].style.display = 'flex'; } })(); </script> <p><a href="https://wip.tf/posts/this-blog-is-a-podcast/">Turning this blog into a podcast</a> was fun&hellip; But long form articles from other people are actually the ones I want to listen to on my commute.</p> <p><img src="images/ars-pod-list.png#hmedium" alt=""></p> <p>By running <a href="https://github.com/nbr23/rss2podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">rss2podcast</a> on a cron, we can get a <a href="https://wip.tf/tags/tts/">piper</a> read podcast out of any RSS feed!</p> https://wip.tf/posts/tts-setup/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:33:45 -0400 https://wip.tf/posts/tts-setup/ <div class="text-to-speech-container"> <span class="text-to-speech-label">Listen to this post:</span> <audio class="text-to-speech-audio" controls> <source src="https://wip.tf/audio/tts/tts-setup.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"> </audio> </div> <script> (function() { var a = document.createElement('audio'); if (a.canPlayType && a.canPlayType('audio/wav')) { var els = document.querySelectorAll('.text-to-speech-container'); for (var i = 0; i < els.length; i++) els[i].style.display = 'flex'; } })(); </script> <p>For a while, I had been using a simple keyboard shortcut for <code>xclip -o | espeak-ng</code> as my TextToSpeech setup. I mostly use it in-browser, highlighting text and using the shortcut to speak the highlighted text.</p> <p>I have been meaning to update it, get more modern voices and make it easier to setup on heterogenous environments (fancy way to say I struggle to have reliable hotkey actions on my work macbook).</p>