Research, builds, things I'm thinking through. Mostly for future-me.
From a Microsoft Teams recording to a dated folder of transcripts, subtitles, and summaries — ffmpeg, WhisperX, pyannote, Claude, and a watcher cron that runs itself. No manual steps after the file lands.
read more →What an LLM helped me find about my family's village in Palestine: a 1145 Crusader land grant in the Vatican manuscripts, a 1268 Mamluk waqf written in recognizable Arabic, a Roman sarcophagus carved with Bacchus and the seasons — and the prompting moves that surfaced them. The internet hadn't forgotten Turmus Ayya. It had just filed it under names I didn't know yet.
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