https://dewofyouryouth.com/A blog by Jacob Shore about genealogy, language learning, faith, and software — tracing family history, studying Arabic, and thinking carefully about things that matter.enTue, 26 May 2026 13:44:54 UTChttps://dewofyouryouth.com/post/tts-chronicles/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/tts-chronicles/Wed, 13 May 2026 12:00:00 +0300 How Haki’s Arabic audio went from browser text-to-speech to generated MP3s, dialect-specific fallbacks, and a still-imperfect pronunciation system.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/how-hard-is-face-detection/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/how-hard-is-face-detection/Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200 I wanted to see how hard face detection is in 2026. I tested Haar cascades, MediaPipe’s BlazeFace, and YOLO on real images. The short answer: it depends entirely on whether your subject is wearing sunglasses.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/obsidian-nerd-stuff/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/obsidian-nerd-stuff/Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:24:28 +0200 Some tips and tricks I use with Obsidian. Plugin recommendations and workflows.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/new-daily-derja-site/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/new-daily-derja-site/Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:06:05 +0300 A new blog for the Daily Derjahttps://dewofyouryouth.com/post/huginn-and-muninn/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/huginn-and-muninn/Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:54:18 +0300 Book II of the Kubernetic Edda.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/the-mirror-ascends/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/the-mirror-ascends/Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:54:22 +0200 Book I of The Kubernetic Edda, A Saga of YAML, Blood, and Eventual Consistencyhttps://dewofyouryouth.com/post/cloze-shortcode/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/cloze-shortcode/Fri, 02 May 2025 14:49:08 +0300 Hugo cloze shortcode for Tunisian Arabic posts with JS/CSS to reveal hidden answers.https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/elixir-cheatsheet/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/elixir-cheatsheet/Sun, 02 Jun 2024 16:31:26 +0300 Some Elixir basics (work in progress).