Friday night: make one lamp answer to you
Friday night: make one lamp answer to you syllabus
One evening, one lamp, and an honest measurement of why the first version feels slow. No soldering, no mains wiring, no framework.
Friday night
Working, then measured, then faster — in that order.
- Get it clicking, badly — The whole loop, end to end, in the ugliest form that works. Speed comes later. (25 min)
- Find the second that went missing — Split the pipeline into legs and find out which one owns your latency. Most people are wrong about this. (30 min)
- Cut the round trip — Move transcription onto the machine that is already listening, and measure what that actually bought you. (30 min)