Before and after the refactor

Wails is absolutely glorious. Small footprint, and I can write my code in Go and Svelte. I don't know how I'm ever going to want to use anything else 😌

Penny wise, pound foolish

I just "won" the 16% lottery in Automattic, I feel you - not based on merit or anything that makes sense, corps gonna corp. It sucks, and even a week later I get sick to my stomach every now and then, but on the other hand, I'm finally free of the golden handcuffs.

I'm sure you'll figure it out 💪

Go's simplicity (what others "boringly simple") is a breath of fresh air for me, I'm starting to really love Golang, and I'm only a couple days in. I think I've found a language to stick with for the next couple years.

I don't know why I was so hesitant to learn Go up until now. Turns out you can pretty much get the hang of it in a day. It's a shockingly easy language to learn.

Peter is selling the idea that AI could do design your room for you, not an actual application. I suspect a through the roof churn rate, but at 39$ price tag that's not a problem. All you need is fresh ~2500 suckers a month and you're making 100k, and with AI hype and a following.

Sad.

... all the typical mistakes open-source AIs make.

The only difference is that it's fine tuned on more (stolen) images and sold by an influencer.

I tried 2 runs and immediately wanted my 39$ back, but the refund policy is "GPUs cost money, so no refunds for you".

Decided to give InteriorAI a spin while renovating kids room and confirmed my suspicion that levelsio is no longer an indie developer but rather a money-making influencer.

InteriorAI is pretty awful at actually designing interiors - I can see the model underneath shining through with....

Blasphemy in progress: migrating my Unraid NAS to a Mac Mini.

The deeper I go, the more I like this setup so much better than Unraid.

The only thing that Mac Mini doesn't do is mix-n-match-raid, but I think it's an ok sacrifice for long-term stability.

The good news is that all the pieces are there. LLMs are pluggable, TypeSense is a fully open source indexer capable of embeddings, Obsidian already stores all my data locally in markdown files.

All I need to build is a hackable, self-hostable central-hub.

How hard can it be (FML)

I don't see any other way.

I'm going to have to build that app.

Fully open-source, fully self-hosted, completely hackable - Everything app, with notes, todo lists, semantic search, context aware.

What I need, is an App that knows **EVERYTHING** about me, my calendar, my mail, my github, my notes, my todos.

But if that app did exist, I would not use it, because I don't want to hand over my life to the cloud somewhere.

And no app is going to do everything just the way I need it.

Same goes for Todo apps like Todois and Things.

I suppose they help monitoring my progress, but what if I exit the app for a while? I have a bunch of todos that are either complete or out of date.

I need something that adapts to my ebbs and flows.

I think there's no app that does this right now.

On scattered information:

MyMind is an excellent bookmark collection app, but I can't get into using it because

1 - It ultimately ends up in a 10$ monthly subscription
2 - I have to actually browse the bookmarks at some point, anything that's above 100ms load time immediately sets an obstacle.

To elaborate - I can write things down, but I never look at them.

I need an app with an LLM that monitors what I write down and then pesters me to follow up.

Not only that, but the information is scattered.

In his new video Ali Abdall explains:

Set systems, not goals.

1 - Write them down
2 - Look at them every week
3 - Monitor your progress
4 - Visualize Obstacles
5 - Tie them to an identity

That's all well and good, but I'm missing step 0:

0 - Follow these steps consistently:

I kind of dig that the openai pro plan is unapologetically 200$ and not 199$ 😄

AI really doesn't like 500loc files, and come to think of it - neither do I.

Setting up my newsgroup setup on my NAS again.

I don't mind paying for all the services. But when I'm GEO targeted and I can't give you money to watch the content in any way (subscription/rent)?

Sorry, if you don't want my money, there are plenty of newsgroups who "need support"....

How to write how-to guides: diataxis.fr

any line that shows up red in diff

hyped!

👀

I guess I know what I'm doing this weekend...

What are we going to call "PLEASE RT" here?

PLEASE RP

"What are you working on this Saturday?"

bsky is exactly what Twitter used to be - it's a place where I can actually engage with smart people, and finally, once again - see links to actual blog posts instead of "Read more 🧵".

No follower craze, no almighty algorithm - just people being people.

This movie hits too hard for me, can't rewatch more than once per decade.

Links like to this to articles that I want to read is exactly what I missed on Xitter.

💙

My hope for the next 4 years: a lot of entertainment value and very little actual impact on the world.