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Text your tools
Wiring a Farfield homelab up to iMessage with Photon and OpenPoke, so slash commands reach personal apps and talking to your agent feels like texting a friend instead of learning another tool.
On Diffusion
From early StyleGAN experiments and latent walks to Mercury 2's fast diffusion language model, and a simulation stripped down until its agents begin coining terms of their own.
Now Playing
Putting my Apple Music "Now Playing" on display with a Raspberry Pi and a 64x64 LED matrix.
Post-UI
Do we still need to ship a frontend?
Intern
The Autonomous Intern ships as a Raspberry Pi 5 in a desk-toy case running a stack I didn't pick. I flashed it to Debian Trixie, swapped the whole thing for the Hermes agent with its own built-in memory, and folded it all into one setup script.
Toy GPTs
Two tiny GPTs out of Karpathy's microGPT. One keeps its weights on Ethereum. The other holds a séance with dead presidents.
Adventures in Machine Vision
A Nat Friedman anecdote about an AI watching him drink water sent me digging for a spare Raspberry Pi. Now a camera and a sensor HAT watch my desk, a self-inflicted panopticon that logs who walks by and what the room is doing.
Farfield
Five small Go services, single binaries, content-addressed records, running on my homelab. The new backend for the site.
I Got a Common Turtle
I got a Common turtle from Claude Code's deterministic buddy system, so I brute-forced the generation algorithm.
Replacing a Rabbit's Brain: Connecting the R1 to Hermes
I replaced the OpenClaw agent on my R1 with Hermes, running locally on a MacBook Pro.
OpenClaw and the Rabbit R1
I got my Rabbit R1 talking to my Pinata-hosted agent. The agent did most of the work.
Koios: Memory, Feedback, and Containment
Autonomous agent with persistent memory inspired by classical theory of mind