Rudrank's Dispatch: Cyber Monday.
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Use the coupon "CES" at checkout page for AI Driven Coding, Foundation Models, MLX Swift, MusicKit, Freelancing, or Technical Writing.
Happy new start of the week! Writing this newsletter might not be the best way to tackle Monday blues, but I am enjoying the exponential train of my book's Black Friday revenue - and I am extending the sale for Cyber Monday and the whole week! 🎉
Also, I have switched platforms! The new one is much better with built-in Discord-style community support. You are automatically in the affiliate program too (up to 10 dollars per referral!).
I manually localized for different currencies, and it is paying off - seeing lots of sales from Taiwan that Gumroad did not support the purchasing power parity for.
Been grinding hard lately with Cursor and shipping stuff - check my GitHub if you are curious.
Have not written much of an article to share, but been deep in experimentation mode. Let me share a few things:
MLX
Last month, I got an iPhone 16 Pro Max in Seoul and I want to see how much I can squeeze out of that latest chip. I started exploring MLX Swift, Apple's framework for maching learning on Apple Silicon.
First experiment:
Built a workout assistant for my runs using MLX Swift! Uses my HealthKit data for personalization and Qwen 2.5 3B for local inference.
I was exploring MLX Swift and created a workout assistant to train for my runs! 🏃🏽♂️
It uses my workout data from HealthKit for personalization and Qwen 2.5 3B for local inference! pic.twitter.com/1TKD9HGmm9
— Rudrank Riyam (@rudrankriyam) November 25, 2024
Second one:
Głosik: On-device text-to-speech using F5-TTS on iOS and macOS with MLX Swift!
Głosik: On-device text-to-speech using F5-TTS on iOS and macOS with MLX Swift!
Thanks to @lllucas for the port! pic.twitter.com/NP6xAKoKNu
— Rudrank Riyam (@rudrankriyam) November 28, 2024
Plus, got voice cloning working:
Referencing your own voice for TTS on-device with F5-TTS and MLX Swift! ❤️🔥 pic.twitter.com/TT4CbejoYj
— Rudrank Riyam (@rudrankriyam) November 29, 2024
I built all these mostly with Cursor and Composer - really getting the hang of making this AI IDE work for me. I have spent tons of hours with it and at a point where I should start creating videos about it instead because there is too much to write.
Quote of the Week:
> Code like nobody's watching, ship like everybody is.
This one is generated by Claude, and it is ironic because all of my recent work is open-sourced which means everyone is watching.
The World of AI
If you have made it this far, I have some news for you. I will slowly pivot this newsletter to be iOS + AI related stuff.
Too much going on in the world of AI and I feel it is boring out here for Apple Platforms. I have not decided on the name yet, but there will be 2 small 300-400 words issues a week, because there is always more to cover.
Till then, stay humble to this new world of AI and keep shipping!
26% OFF - CES Sale
Use the coupon "CES" at checkout page for AI Driven Coding, Foundation Models, MLX Swift, MusicKit, Freelancing, or Technical Writing.
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