Morning ride. Started with rain but got lucky and weather turned sunny.

ignore the title about caching, this is the best explanation of how LLMs work, period

Promising (though non OSS) pdf to markdown extraction ($2 per 1,000) mistral.ai/news/mistral...

p2panda overview preso. #p2p www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmj6...

Was invited to talk with the UVic Startup Studio cohort. What a blast. Happy to report entrepreneurship is alive and well! startup-studio.ai

Once I got over the amazement of @iroh.computer 's reliable encrypted P2P connectivity, the next unlock was the ease of protocol stacking (and the modularity that affords).

AI should, if not already, bring TDD back into vogue

Incredible! Claude Code was able to integrate better-auth in just 10 minutes, freeing me up to spend my time on other important tasks, such as fixing this buggy better-auth integration.

My multi-user + AI agents p2p collaboration app is starting to take shape! Automerge and Iroh are a joy to work wth. #localfirst #cloudless #rust #WIP #learnbybuilding youtu.be/JSqCABm8UQU

Any evidence of a sleeper ‘agent’ trained INTO an LLM yet? Thinking subtle code recommendations opening back doors…seems plausible and hard to uncover.

Iroh, Iroh, it's off the cloud we go... 🎵

Trying out leaflet.pub via secondary account relves.leaflet.pub/3m5ff3r2qrk24

So many great talks lined up for @syncconf.bsky.social! Unfortunately I’ll miss it. I’d be fascinated to hear the Dialog DB talk. Some serious business coming together there! 🤯

All of the videos from the first #jj-vcs conference are out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

useworkflow.dev Durable functions from Vercel. Like Temporal or Restate

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Timeless wisdom #ProductStrategy medium.com/@shreyashere...

I hear AWS has an outage today. My heart goes out to those of you still writing software hosted there.

Some sort of milestone today. I left an agent working while I headed out mt biking. 🚵‍♂️

Getting a chuckle from the musical theme in the @iroh.computer trace logs: call-me-maybe, stayin_alive 🕺

“For developers and founders, the lesson is straightforward. […] Build at the platform layer or build internal leverage. If you want to sell SaaS, make sure it is vertical, deeply integrated, and ROI-proven. Everything else will get commoditized.” mehmetmhy.com/posts/barbel...

“Almost all bad strategies basically come down from a willful disbelief in what [the] accurate diagnosis is, which means then your guiding policies are kind of incoherent to begin with.” - Will Larson www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ft...

"AI should be a lever for the direction you’ve already chosen, not a distraction that scatters your focus." techlead.id/p/practical-...

“The S in MCP stands for security.” — a reminder from @bmann.ca #ProtocolsForPublishers

when rust-analyzer takes up as much memory as running a local llm 🤔

uvx --from mlx-audio mlx_audio.tts.generate --model mlx-community/orpheus-3b-0.1-ft-4bit --text "Can you believe how good local text-to-speech generation is now?" --voice tara --temperature 0.6 --audio_format mp3

“When you use AI, I desperately need you to acknowledge, for the sake of the unvoiced: These conjured artifacts of value, generated at your will as if by magic, presently comes from a technology wholly premised on the non-consensual extraction and subsequent erasure of past labor.”

🤓 Fascinating read about OpenAI, Anthropic and the business of LLMs ethanding.substack.com/p/openai-bur...

context is all you need...good context, and really good tool calling support www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0P5...

Using AI to write the SQL to build out complex / large scale multi-table testing scenarios is a huge time saver.

LoFi/28 starting #localfirst discord.com/channels/929...

The spec development flow of kiro.dev is excellent - Requirements, Design, and Tasks. Makes tweaking the plan straight forward (and a better experience than parsing through a chat log in the side bar). A few bugs (i.e. can't start tasks from editor occasionally) but otherwise very effective!

Ableton Note is a slick app for sketching musical ideas. Hard to believe how much functionality they packed in there. And sending to Ableton Live just works.

I’m riding up a steep technical single track and break stride to let an e-bike buzz past. Different values.

Kimi K2 usable via openrouter with together.ai

Text to speech, cloud models optional. superwhisper.com

Software 3.0 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEm...

The internet runs on Cloudflare. When its down, you're reminded of the need for #localfirst software. 😩https://www.cloudflarestatus.com

TLDW - Markdown is the new programming language. Obsidian is the new IDE. youtu.be/U-fMsbY-kHY?...

Some great talks out of AI Engineer World's Fair this week. www.youtube.com/@aiDotEngine...

Wedged a ride in between projects today.

Came across this comment in a mobile app discord (not bolt.new's). It succinctly captures this moment in time.

🚨 Big news! We’ve been collaborating with the legendary @tannerlinsley.com and the TanStack team to build something new: TanStack DB — a reactive, normalized, transactional state engine that extends TanStack Query.

Our 6yo used momentum correctly in a sentence... I think kindergarten is different these days.

2025.05.08 edition is out 💐 www.localfirstnews.com/2025-05-08/

Freshening up the ride with a patriotic mudguard.

Oooo look what just arrived! 😀🦋 worldwithoutcaesars.com