it’s been a minute since i’ve just unloaded all of my recent thoughts onto a page like this. keeping up with all of the projects and releases, video essays and tweets, books and memes i stumble across–even in a 15-minute span–is enough to make me feel crazy. and as soon as i close my laptop, i forget it all! so in the attempt to canonize the act of remembering, here are my notes:

• marimo: live-updating python-notebooks-as-dashboards, save as py files
• autoresearch: self-contained playground for a language model to tinker and optimize
• homebrew routers: something as simple as a raspberry pi can be what hosts your internet connection; building integration with tailscale and pi-hole, maybe mullvad would be super secure and powerful
• zed: forgot i signed up for the student plan and–as of today–they released version 1.0. think it’s worth giving a shot (especially as i’ve maxed out my cursor plan for the month!)

also something i’ve been thinking about is the future of local models. i’m a big proponent of the open source, small language models winning this race. some of the most advanced open source models (at the time of this writing) are only a few months behind frontier models. and that’s exciting! i think of these models as unlocking the ability for our computers to be anthropomorphized, to interface with a machine in natural language opens up nearly unlimited possibilities.

to speak on my current workflow for my blog, i do the following:

• obsidian as the main writing interface. using obsidian git it syncs to the github repo (that hugo builds a website with) using a simple cmd+s shortcut. i usually keep a separate tab (or two) using the integrated terminal plugin so i can run opencode or spin up a local hugo server instance to assess the site before i push to prod
• occasionally i’ll use cursor to handle more of the front-/backend and make larger changes to the code; this is helpful as i can grab specific HTML/CSS sections straight off the browser tab, review changes, et cetera.

things i’d like to add to my website:

• using marimo, make a notebook that renders in-browser to demonstrate nimslo pipeline
• comment section, allowing people to highlight text and add their thoughts (i have an affinity for marginalia)
  • this needs to be regulated however, maybe manually approved?
• more pictures i think…