Abacus Noir

Was tired of getting the "but you said ..." response from Claude, it really breaks my momentum, and leaves a bad taste in my mouth ...

A Conversational Control Plane for Everyday Life I've changed calendars, task managers, and planning apps more times than I'd like to admit.

tl;dr: finally have a desktop at home after a couple decades I've only had personal laptops now, for the longest time.

tl;dr: treat llm output as a pointer to the answer, not the answer Everyone who leans on these tools has been burnt: an invented flag, a test that passes for the wrong reason.

We kept code because replacing it was expensive.

The following is within my Leuchtturm1917, A5, 80gsm

Driftwood is an experimental runtime I've been building for stateful AI agents (the kind that remember!).

tl;dr: the test was't really about measuring the machine, but rather about measuring us.

This is the second post in a series on Driftwood, a runtime for stateful Wasm actors with hardware-accelerated inference on Apple Silicon.

Most of what I write or build now has AI in it somewhere: As a sparring partner at midnight As a draft I'll spend the next hour reshaping As a thesaurus, a fact-checker, a second pair of eyes on a paragraph that isn't landing.

tl;dr: on Apple Silicon, a WebAssembly module's linear memory can be shared directly with the GPU: no copies, no serialization, no intermediate buffers.

This is the third in a series.

I built Slow Bloom because I wanted an app that didn't want anything from me.

Gerbil Playground is a browser-based REPL for Gerbil Scheme — a batteries-included, actor-oriented Scheme that compiles to C via Gambit.

One kind of side project I get a kick out of: building tools for languages I find interesting but that don't have the ecosystem gravity to attract them on their own.

Second in a series.

It all started by us making "quilts" at restaurants When my kid was young enough to need crayons to survive a long dinner, we had a ritual.