TLDR Radio
Every morning, TLDR Radio converts the day's TLDR newsletters into chapterized podcast episodes you listen to instead of read, generated entirely on your own server. Pick a date at the Broadcast Desk, hit Broadcast, and a few minutes later chapterized episodes wait in your browser, one per newsletter with each story as its own track. All fourteen TLDR newsletters can sit on the Desk for manual runs, join the overnight build, or both, and the overnight selection shows an estimated listening time measured from your own episodes. Scheduled builds retry until the day's issue appears and can send an ntfy notification when the audio is ready. The player groups your library by day, shows each chapter with its section heading, source summary, and link to the original, and offers 15-second skips, playback speed up to 2.5x, auto-advance, resume, and keyboard shortcuts. Sponsor segments become their own clearly marked chapters in a different voice, announced out loud so an ad is never mistaken for news, and easy to skip. Sixty-eight voices can be auditioned in Settings, and every episode downloads as a single tagged MP3 with album, title, and author set for podcast and audiobook apps. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
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