Slow Bloom: a meditation app that doesn't want anything from you
A meditative garden for iOS with no notifications, no analytics, and no interest in your attention. Tap to gather light. Grow flora. Watch the numbers fade as beauty emerges.…
Making Concurrency Visible: Gerbil Playground v1.2
Gerbil Playground v1.2 adds an actor message log that makes concurrency visible: watch spawned threads exchange messages in real time. Plus ... embeddable mode for dropping live REPLs into documentation, a mobile layout, and resizable panes.…
A Playground for Gerbil Scheme
Gerbil Scheme compiles to native code, and has an actor-oriented concurrency mode. Here's trygerbil.dev: a browser-based REPL backed by real containers, with session persistence, guided examples, and a replay system that survives container sleep.…
What It Means for an Agent to Think About Its Own Actions
Current agent frameworks treat tool definitions as inert data the model can't reason about. The fix isn't a better format, it's a representational property called homoiconicity, and it changes what agents are capable of becoming.…
Patchwork
A ritual from when my kids were small: flip the menu over, draw a grid, fill squares with crayons while waiting for food. I wanted to turn that into an app. Here's what I built instead.…
Your Agent's Tools Are Dead Data
Today's AI agents can call tools, but ... they cannot evolve them. The bottleneck isn't reasoning or context length. It's representational: actions, traces, and plans live in incompatible formats that prevent agents from inspecting or composing their own capabilities…
On fading out and reviving
Real banger of a quote, by Winston Churchill…
Newly inked pens
💡The Lamy Safari on the right has been with me since 2012 (and writes just as well today)…
Watercolor pen in Midori MD
Looks nicer from behind the page!…
Smelter 0.2: Common Lisp Scripts That Just Work
Wanted to share Smelter, a self-contained binary for running Lisp scripts without the usual setup overhead. It started as a Coalton runner, but 0.2 adds native Common Lisp mode. Generally meant to solve "just running CL" (i.e. without SBCL images, or configuring Quicklisp).…
CurioPod: Open-Sourcing an AI tutor/partner for kids
I built my daughter an AI tutor that runs on our own infrastructure, uses our own API key, and stores every conversation in a database I control. Open-sourcing it today.…
Happy New Year
Worth re-posting from James Clear's newsletter, since it's the only real way to to change: I. "New goals don't deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process,…