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New comment by dougcalobrisi in "Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds"

dougcalobrisi — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:58:59 +0000

You’re right. I may borrow that if I do a follow up at some point :-)

New comment by dougcalobrisi in "Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds"

dougcalobrisi — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:57:48 +0000

It does take videos (like mp4) as input but will only output the stripped audio track.

I might add the custom filler word functionality and/or perhaps just make the filler word list configurable.

New comment by dougcalobrisi in "Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds"

dougcalobrisi — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:52:43 +0000

This post is mostly about how surprisingly hard it is to cut filler words out of speech cleanly. Apparently, stripping ums isn't a find and replace type thing, because Whisper's timestamps are off by up to a few hundred ms and cutting on them chops syllables or leaves stutters. So, I built a tool, erm, that starts from Whisper's guess, finds where each word actually starts and stops in the audio, and snaps the cuts to silence so there's no click, with ffmpeg doing the splicing.

https://github.com/dougcalobrisi/erm

Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds

dougcalobrisi — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:42:11 +0000

Article URL: https://doug.sh/posts/erm-a-local-cli-that-strips-ums-uhs-and-erms-from-speech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498421

Points: 175

# Comments: 90

Erm: A Local CLI That Strips Ums, Uhs, and Erms from Speech

dougcalobrisi — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:16:21 +0000

Article URL: https://doug.sh/posts/erm-a-local-cli-that-strips-ums-uhs-and-erms-from-speech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000960

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dougcalobrisi in "Give Your Coding Agent a Journal"

dougcalobrisi — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:46:58 +0000

I'm a big fan of this pattern. It's helped me a lot recently to document a system via Claude poking at it and exploring, journaling as it went.

Give Your Coding Agent a Journal

dougcalobrisi — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:26:00 +0000

Article URL: https://doug.sh/posts/give-your-coding-agent-a-journal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896577

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Show HN: A LinuxCNC gRPC Server with Clients in Rust, Go, Python, Node

dougcalobrisi — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:40:12 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dougcalobrisi/linuxcnc-grpc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645342

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Streamline How Your Code Interacts with Postgres

dougcalobrisi — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:41:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/streamline-how-your-code-interacts-postgres

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44435684

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by dougcalobrisi in "Scaling Breakthrough: EPAS 17 Scales Twice as Well, Thanks PostgreSQL"

dougcalobrisi — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:25:22 +0000

Just to add a little context for those that don't read the article: this jump in scaling performance actually comes from PostgreSQL's improvements from 16 to 17. EDB's Postgres distributions just follow community PostgreSQL extremely closely, so we're able to take advantage of the huge improvements made by the open source PostgreSQL community.

This really is a big thing. Same hardware, same workload, double the performance. That doesn't happen often, especially for a project that got its start in the 1980s and is still growing today.

Scaling Breakthrough: EPAS 17 Scales Twice as Well, Thanks PostgreSQL

dougcalobrisi — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:58:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/scaling-breakthrough-epas-17-scales-twice-well-thanks-postgresql

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42311334

Points: 13

# Comments: 4

Operationalizing AI with Postgres: Vector Databases and More

dougcalobrisi — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:03:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/operationalizing-ai-postgres

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41603282

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The Life of a Bug: From Customer Escalation to PostgreSQL Commit

dougcalobrisi — Thu, 09 May 2024 16:50:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/life-bug-customer-escalation-postgresql-commit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310153

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by dougcalobrisi in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)"

dougcalobrisi — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:16:25 +0000

EDB | Senior Software Engineer (Dev Experience and Tools) | Remote | Full Time | https://enterprisedb.com

EDB builds products and solutions based on the world’s best database, Postgres. We have many of the core Postgres contributors on staff and continuously contribute back to the open source community. We're also fully remote.

We're looking for an engineer to focus on tooling and developer experience, by building modern and Postgres dev tools with a focus on usability. These tools will be used in production, development, experimentation, and testing. This role will be especially interesting - and challenging - as we develop highly available distributed database systems of varying architectures.

We use a large mixture of languages, but Go + Python experience is preferable. Experience with C, and database internals knowledge is a huge plus, especially Postgres. Previous work with cloud architecture, specifically AWS, is also nice to have.

https://www.enterprisedb.com/careers/job-openings?gh_jid=510...

doug.calobrisi[at]enterprisedb.com

Show HN: Nested GitHub Action Runners

dougcalobrisi — Sat, 28 May 2022 15:34:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dougcalobrisi/nested-github-runners-action

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31541098

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by dougcalobrisi in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)"

dougcalobrisi — Mon, 02 May 2022 17:10:50 +0000

EDB | Developer Experience Engineer (Dev Tools) | Remote | Full Time | https://enterprisedb.com

This role will be formally posted on our site in the next few days, I’ll reply with a comment when it's up. Until then, reach out to me directly with interest and questions:

doug.calobrisi[at]enterprisedb.com

Show HN: Reduce GitHub Action costs with nested runners

dougcalobrisi — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 17:15:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dougcalobrisi/nested-github-runners-action

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30969866

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by dougcalobrisi in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)"

dougcalobrisi — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 17:11:18 +0000

EDB | Senior Software Engineer | Remote | Full Time | https://enterprisedb.com

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Tooling) to help build Postgres tools. We're working on modernizing Postgres tools, used in production, development, and testing. You would be designing and building these tools, specifically around high-availability, distributed database architectures, and deployment tooling. We have a lot of challenging projects in our backlog, and you definitely won't get bored.

https://grnh.se/aa99beb93us

We're also looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Automation) to help build Postgres automation. You would be designing and building automation and tools to ensure our Postgres solutions will work perfectly for our customers. We need to ensure that our full solutions, including components such as multiple variants of Postgres, HA and pooling, bi-directional replication, deployment tools, and more, all fully work together for customer scenarios. To reach that goal, we're building a lot of cool methods/tools to verify our products and solution architectures.

https://grnh.se/53042e4f3us

We work on a lot of fun and interesting projects. We also use a lot of Go, Python, Ansible, etc, but we're always open to adding the right tools and frameworks to our stack. The roles are 100% remote, and always will be.

These roles are directly on my team and I'm happy to answer any questions via email.

All EDB openings: https://grnh.se/3ee0435d3us

You can email me at doug.calobrisi[at]enterprisedb.com

EDB Announces BigAnimal, PostgreSQL Database in the Cloud

dougcalobrisi — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 12:56:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.enterprisedb.com/products/biganimal-cloud-postgresql

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29080505

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by dougcalobrisi in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)"

dougcalobrisi — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 16:27:42 +0000

EDB | Principal Software Engineer | Remote | Full Time | https://enterprisedb.com

We’re currently looking to fill many roles as we continue to rapidly grow.

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help design and build the future of Postgres development automation in our automation team. This role will be involved in creating tools to remove friction from processes and make our development teams more efficient.

Link: https://grnh.se/e6c27b9b3us

We're also looking for a Senior Performance Engineer with extensive Postgres (or other RDBMS) experience. This role would work on designing and optimizing our BDR (Bi-Directional Replication) solution for Postgres. This is a newly opened role without a proper posting yet, so please email me directly with interest.

All openings: https://grnh.se/3ee0435d3us

You can reach out to me at doug.calobrisi[at]enterprisedb.com