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- I like 80% of Obsidian, so I'm building the other 20%
Obsidian gets me most of the way; B2 is my Rust-and-Tauri take on the rest, with hybrid keyword + semantic search built in.
- rust
- pkm
- tooling
- learning-in-public
- Two DeepSeek models are building me a markdown editor for pocket change
A worker model, an evaluator model, and a macOS markdown editor taking shape for about forty cents.
- tilth
- models
- agents
- ai-assisted-dev
- The four-hour course is delivered, demo fails and all
A delivered course (demo fails and all), a clean rename out of lsp4agents, and a meetup demo to plan.
- ai-assisted-dev
- agents
- tooling
- teaching
- Measuring transcription quality is harder than comparing strings
Exact string match punishes the very thing a good transcription model does: clean up what was actually said.
- ios
- models
- tilth
- learning-in-public
- Relay Notes is heading for the App Store
A choice of transcription engines, a cleanup pass, and Relay Notes is into field trials.
- ios
- ai-assisted-dev
- tilth
- models
- A model too good to just kick the tires with
Claude Fable 5 is impressive enough that I can no longer afford to just kick the tires.
- ai-assisted-dev
- models
- ios
- learning-in-public
- Describe the what, let the agent navigate the how
The thing that always blocked me from building for iPhone was never the idea, it was the how.
- agents
- ai-assisted-dev
- ios
- tooling
- Autonomous agents need different machinery than the ones you watch
Most coding agents assume someone is watching. The interesting problems start when no one is.
- agents
- tilth
- ai-assisted-dev
- Give the agent the tools you already use
We hand agents a text editor and act surprised when they reason about code like it's text.
- agents
- tooling
- rust
- learning-in-public