Daniel Rosehill Blog
Exploring technology, AI, business insights, and personal reflections from a curious mind
Can speech-to-text spell ‘makolet’? I tested seven models on Hebrish
English speakers in Israel talk Hebrish, and dictation software mangles the Hebrew words. I built an open benchmark to measure it: my fine-tune gets two-thirds of them right, off-the-shelf models a third to under half.
Dictation that finally understands Hebrish, on your phone and offline
I fine-tuned NVIDIA's Parakeet v2 speech model to catch the Hebrew words in Israeli English. Release 2 is out: offline downloads for Android and Linux, the full model, and the training data.
My Hugging Face models and datasets, by theme (October 2026)
A point-in-time snapshot of the 16 models and 72 datasets on my Hugging Face profile, grouped by theme, from Hebrew-English code-switching to Jerusalem photography.
Teaching a podcast to say makolet: a classifier for Hebrew hiding in English
I released a small model on Hugging Face that finds romanised Hebrew words inside English text, so TTS voices like Chatterbox can stop reading them as English. Built for My Weird Prompts.
A quarter of every box you buy is wall
Multiply a box's outside dimensions and you overstate what it holds by about a quarter — and by more for a tapered attached-lid container than a straight-walled Eurobox. So I built the dataset nobody publishes: 48 sizes, 121 vendor listings.
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Israel's open data portal has no changelog, so I built one
Israel's open data portal publishes a catalogue but no changelog — there's no way to ask what's new. Its CKAN API turns out to carry enough history to reconstruct one: 1,197 datasets across 124 months, and what actually landed in the last few weeks.
MK-Claude: a political platform for a party that doesn't exist
What would an Israeli political platform look like if somebody built one properly — every number sourced, every proposal costed, every trade-off admitted? Six policy areas, a four-stage pipeline with gates, and the unverified claims left visible.
Green Invoice MCP: putting Israeli invoicing inside Claude
An unofficial MCP server that puts Green Invoice's API inside Claude: all fifteen document type codes, new sandbox support, and why chaining an OCR'd receipt into a supplier and an expense is the part that actually saves time.
The shopping cart deserves to be a file
A shopping cart is a document you're never allowed to keep. .cart is an open, tax-aware JSON format that turns a cart into a portable file an agent can read, diff, re-price, or turn into a purchase order or RFQ.
The warehouse apartment: how I moved my house onto industrial logistics standards
Renting in Israel means moving often, involuntarily, and expensively. My answer: store everything in the same standardised industrial containers — Euroboxes, pallets, picking bins — that industry uses to move things at scale.