Thanks buddy!

Introducing Alloy, a local-first AI workbench app for macOS.

• Own your history & memory: plain text files you control.
• Orchestrate: parallel agents, swap models mid-thread.
• Flow: riff to co-create with an AI & triggers as proactive monitors.

No lock-in, BYO-keys. smus.com/alloy-local-...

my little agent orchestrator is growing up. just playing around with some names now. wdyt?

updated for 2026

Built a NetHack-style roguelike and got an LLM to play it. LLMs are terrible at parsing ASCII maps. Solved it by converting FOV to explicit directions — "NEW: N, E" vs "VISITED: S" vs "BLOCKED: W". Once it knows what's novel vs explored, it actually navigates.

My e-ink tablet's handwriting recognition has a 27% error rate. So I benchmarked local VLMs against cloud models:

Claude Opus 4.5: 3% error, 6 seconds
qwen3-vl:8b (local): 5% error, 74 seconds

A 2% accuracy hit to keep my journal entirely on-device? I'll take that trade.
smus.com/notes/2025/l...

typography revealed

A synthesis between scenario planning and prediction

De-shittify? Ain’t that not wrong?

Yes totally. Great synthesis along axes I hadn’t considered before.

doesn’t sound like a very nice cafe

Kneeling lower body emitting a toot

Intrigued by “There's some discussion about an Obsidian plugin-in for ATProto, that could publish notes to Leaflet or bookmarks to Semble, which would be really nice”.

Search-fu failed to find the latter two drops

love that my TTS reader pronounces Xi (in Xi Jinping) as “roman eleven”. something very fitting about that

You do!

What is intelligence? It’s all chicken salad.

the question practically answers itself

How about “Soylent Green” instead? Or could do “Torment Nexus”

America against America by Wang Huning, 1991

on whom?

The pursuit of frictionless capture

The most fruitful moments for contemplation are often the least conducive to capture. So I built a way to capture from anywhere - watch, phone, or e-paper - all flowing to plaintext. The pursuit of frictionless capture

Jesus joins WWE wrestling 🔥🔥🔥whats his special move YouTube video by SafeHouse 🏦 Media Group

Something special youtube.com/shorts/Pekhs...

Now that Signal is out, I guess we'll have to do it in-person :(

Are radio stations? 🥺

how about instead, the government pays talented people to come to the US and contribute their amazing talent, grit, and creativity?

@nearestnabors.com great talk at cascadia—got a link to the slides?

I do my Claude codes at least two at a time. Is there polyphonic elevator music?

please explain this gratuitously violent iconography

Can has tool for enumerating tools?

iPhone air: right direction, wrong dimension

Rhymes with product led growth