Yared kassa
Geʽez handwriting OCR, an offline Windows TTS that speaks Amharic, and an eye on light-based computing.
10 years of experience 🇪🇹 i like thinking long term Interested in ML, ASML, Robotics, photonic computing, faith and Humanity. worked in: ML, Robotics, Full stack Dev.. Here I will log what's in my mind & share a random glimpse to my Life.
Yared kassa is a mostly English channel that logs interests in ML, robotics and photonic computing next to the things it builds. It has shown a React Native app with more than 100,000 users, revived Geʽez handwritten character OCR research, and made an offline Windows TTS that reads Amharic and English. In between, it tracks new AI models and tools, including ones that run on CPUs.
- 47 weeks in a row with at least one post, and the streak is still going.
- At 25.1 posts a week lately, there is usually something new to read.
- The channel's most-used word is "model", which fits a feed full of AI model news.
The journey.
- Dec 2025
- Jan – Mar 2026
Old wins, new rules
The channel digs out a React Native app it co-built three years earlier, now past 100,000 users with a rating above 4.6. By March it writes down its rules for building systems, offline-first and self-healing among them, and designs a system to be AI-agent native with its own guide and control API.
Sources#416#864#1074 - Mar – Aug 2026
Model watch
The feed keeps a running watch on new AI models and tools, including ones that run on CPUs, like the PaRO framework on Intel Xeon processors and a CPU-friendly transcription model whose smallest version is under half a GB. Along the way, CRUDER is getting MCP support and more native components so AI agents can use it too.
Sources#916#1702#1589 - Sep – Oct 2026
Building now.
Offline Windows TTS
BuildingReads selected text aloud on a hotkey, Amharic included, and is set to pick up productivity features beyond TTS.
First made for Codex, which has no TTS; productivity features planned as of September 2026.
Sub-100MB ASR
BuildingWorking with Opus 5.5 on a better ASR that fits under 100 MB.
- Ethiopia Orthodox በዓላትና ቀን ማውጫ
A React Native Android app for Ethiopian Orthodox holidays and dates, with an admin app and API; more than 100,000 users.
Launched2 postsJan 2026Visit - Geʽez / Amharic OCR
Handwritten Geʽez character recognition, trained on a dataset collected on campus, extending older Geʽez/Amharic OCR research.
Older OCR research revived after a long break in December 2025.
Building1 postsDec 2025– - CRUDER
A tool being extended with MCP and more native components so it can become a tool for AI agents too.
Building1 postsJul 2026–
Start here.
- 01
A React Native app with more than 100,000 users, broken into user app, admin app and API.
we made this project with Leul 3 years ago Name > Ethiopia Orthodox በዓላትና ቀን ማውጫ —currently have more than 100,000 users and above 4.6 Rating —Developed using...
Jan 12, 2026491 views - 02
Older Geʽez/Amharic OCR research comes back, with a handwriting model training on Kaggle.
I’m currently recovering and extending my old research on Geʽez / Amharic OCR to make it more practical and usable. After a long break from OCR and machine lea...
Dec 28, 202592 views - 03
The channel's rules for building systems, from offline-first to self-healing.
My Rule in developing a system Offline-first Works even without internet as a normal operating mode, instead of treating it like an afterthought. Resilient Ke...
Mar 5, 2026297 views - 04
The offline Windows TTS that reads selected text aloud, Amharic included.
How many of you want an offline local TTS for Windows? The idea is that you will have TTS just a Ctrl+M or Ctrl+Q away from the text you selected. I made one...
Sep 15, 202684 views - 05
Where the light-based computing thread starts, with a plan to learn it in 2026.
#Light_based_computing 🤓 am just noticing a new way of computing and its lowkey fascinating the future of digital infrastructure have to work in depth again w...
Dec 27, 202599 views
In their own words.
Works even without internet as a normal operating mode, instead of treating it like an afterthought.
Codex has no TTS, so I made it for that initially, and it keeps getting better.
Fresh from the channel.
and from server class available for consumers with enough capital this one is ma favorite with more than 1000 VRAM I hope within 3-4 years such device would be so common in everyone hands.
Do you know what is attractive and beautiful about using Rust programing language it save resource and boost your speed to the point the database become the bottleneck imagine that😁
Now a day only a local desktop workstation with equal to or above 700GB v-ram can making an engineer as productive as he should be free of the codex or Claude subscription and run up to 80 agents and subagents 24*7 non stop with a goal and...
Claude weekly reset and Monday morning pair is nice
Good morning everyone Have a great day
😊 they sing well for a limited tone