Who it is forA developer who subscribes to TLDR but never finds time to read all of it.
The problemReading 14 newsletters a day is a chore.
The outcomeEpisodes with each story as its own chapter, generated locally for free.
What you need first
- Docker
- About 5 GB of disk for images
Steps
- Clone the repo and cd into TLDR Radio
- Check prerequisites with
make doctor - Start it with
make up - Open the player, pick a day and hit Broadcast
Prompt for your agent
Run mat-nolen/tldr-radio with `make up`, broadcast <date>, and list the episodes created with their chapter counts. Confirm no external API keys were needed.
Caveat. It depends on the structure of the public tldr.tech archive page, so a layout change there can break parsing.
Use this in your AI agent
Ask your agent
Using the Deduped MCP, get the setup steps for mat-nolen/tldr-radio and "Listen to the daily TLDR newsletters as a podcast"
Add Deduped to Claude Code once
claude mcp add --transport http deduped https://dedupedai.com/mcp
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