Eddie Tonkoi, Author at Podfeet Podcasts

VS Code for Agentic Editing with Codex — by Eddie Tonkoi

March 7, 2026
by Eddie Tonkoi

Intro Hi, Eddie here with a mini review of my favourite tool of 2026, so far, and what I use it for. It’s VS Code, a Microsoft product that I stumbled upon when deciding to creating our website at jerntonkoi.com using Hugo, as told previously, and I have fallen for it head-over-heels. The problem that […]

Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 1: Capture Right, Stay Boring, Sound Human

Forty Hours Later: Why I Restarted the Edit This new series, Audiobook Audio (V3), exists because I made a mistake. Not a particularly dramatic one and certainly not a catastrophic one, just the sort of mistake that only reveals itself once you’re already committed—the kind that costs time, not money. In my case, it cost […]

Eddie very silly certificate of success listing all of the elements he describes in the articles

Building a Fiction Editing Pipeline Part 2 – Grammar — Eddie Tonkoi

January 1, 2026
by Eddie Tonkoi

Intro In my last article, (Building a Fiction Editing Pipeline with Regex and Python — Part 1 by Eddie Tonkoi), I introduced my pipeline, including the rationale behind my Narrative Analysis toolkit, ETNA. This time, I’ll be looking at the more subjective part, starting with grammar. The problem with grammar Unlike syntax and spelling, grammar […]

Regex in Python with bright colors and a ribbon of text under a magnifying glass and says find patterns in text

Building a Fiction Editing Pipeline with Regex and Python — Part 1 by Eddie Tonkoi

Intro: Rationale and Regex My wife, Jern Tonkoi, is a discovery writer. She knows what she wants to write, but the characters and the locations don’t always play along, resulting in emotional depth with creative freedom. I have the task of editing and producing the novel, and so I am bound by mundane conventions such […]

Screenshot of a Logic Pro X session with dialogue and room-noise tracks laid out on the timeline, and a “Noise Gate” plug-in window open in Ducker mode, showing threshold, attack, release and band-pass settings used to reduce background noise between speech phrases.

Producing an Audiobook — by Eddie Tonkoi

Intro Producing an audiobook to be at a professional level is a big undertaking. It involves hours of recording, gigabytes of data, and exacting specifications. I’ve spent a lot of time understanding these and iterating on my process as I went through the full pipeline as narrator, sound engineer, producer, and publisher for my wife, […]

Book cover for Murder in Treggan Bay showing a dark and dismal rocky coast with a house hanging to the edge of the cliff, with a light on the entryway

Recording an Audio Book — by Eddie Tonkoi

Introduction My wife, Jern Tonkoi, is writing fiction and we’re publishing it ourselves, using Amazon and Kobo, etc, and being someone who likes listening more than reading, creating audiobooks seems a natural direction to go in. Even if it wasn’t, the potential for more visibility and more sales is always going to be attractive, and […]