dtkav

I am working on a similar thing for jsoncanvas (.canvas files in Obsidian). My takeaway is that agents are heavily trained on specific formats (e.g. svg), and are conversely pretty bad at niche formats. My strategy was to create a native renderer [1] so that at least they can rapidly iterate "visually" by reading svg and png renders instead of trying to one-shot.

I have yet to see an AI generated visual diagram that doesn't feel like slop though... I'd be very interested in examples of actually-good diagrams workflows if anyone has seen them.

[0] https://jsoncanvas.org/

[1] https://github.com/dtkav/canvas-native

We were on a call recently where I mentioned that as a fly user SDLC and declarative config was more important than ever, and so I was pushing for sprites to have OCI images.

I'm pretty AI pilled, and I'm building a local-first personal software platform, but I dunno... I've been feeling like i need to cram the "AI spirit" into very specifically shaped boxes to actually build robust software tastefully at speed. Like software on the outside and AI on the inside instead of the other way around.

I do think the future of computing will definitely be more like the Linux diaspora than the apple ecosystem, but also.. it is easy to get "duped" by AI without actually shipping. I'm starting to want "KPIs" to help me measure if my time is actually well spent against the things i care about.

I guess I'm extrapolating from your post, but even if the programming language is English, we'll probably still want to spend a large amount of additional compute to produce "artifacts" that have things like performant code, security hardening, and certified taste.

I do think the future of computing will definitely be more like the Linux diaspora than the apple ecosystem, but also... when i first got into linux i spent way too long trying to get my desktop perfectly aesthetic because it was all suddenly malleable. Now i vibe more with Debian.

I wish you luck, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with! Fun times ahead for sure.

I want artifacts (PRs / work that was done) instead of sessions. The worst part about this era is that everyone feels productive because they are doing work and sessions are shaped around doing work instead of delivering. It is so easy to get duped by AI optimism and not actually ship stuff.

I agree with them that github should die and that we should track every bit of context and every edit, but I am sick of seeing tools about the input instead of the output. I actually only want to see/try PRs. good ones.

I work on a realtime collaboration platform, and I've been building something similar for internal use - cool to see your mental model.

Do you find voice mode to be helpful? How do you route to the right agent?

Some minor feedback, but the mobile site is pretty unusable on my device (Firefox, Android). I'm also turned off by the 3d visualizations and ai stuff in marketing (even though it is an AI infra product).

Good luck!

There's been some great research into aphantasia in the last ~5 years - worth reading about if you have aphantasia.

I think i have this too (also play piano, have perfect pitch). I have an excellent musical memory, but i have to actually play a song / sing it out loud to hear it if that makes sense.

I do have the motion-centric imagination sense (i could "feel" what it would be like to do a layup) without physically moving.

No ability to generate audio, visuals, etc "on the inside".

Do you have an internal voice?

Also differences in pupil dilation when asked to imagine scenes [0].

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9018072/

I bought another zenphone 9 (such a good phone... nothing comes close 4 years later for me) with the hopes of putting lineageOS on and trying to keep it up to date with security updates.

I didn't realize that ASUS disabled their bootloader unlock service API. I ran a similar process to try anytime and everything to own my own device.

My current (bad) idea is to run a root exploit at each boot and then patch known vulns at runtime... at least until the moto phones with grapheneOS come out. I have a recent pixel with grapheneOS but i can bring myself to use it.

Thank you for sharing this. I've been looking into prolly trees for relay.md - I'll try swapping this in and see if i can provide any perspective for real world CRDT use cases. I'm happy to see the various key policies.

I've been using Geoffrey's /explain-diff skill in my replace-github-with-tailor-fit-personal-software journey, and I'm liking it. I recommend at least giving it a try.

I have a matte black Pixelbook Go running PopOS and i love it.

The hardware feels great to hold (though the touchpad is still meh). I covered the Google logos with a glossy black vinyl Obsidian sticker.

https://notes.danielgk.com/Hardware/Travel+Laptop

let's collab! daniel @ relay.md

IMO Obsidian is currently the king of "personal software frameworks". You can look at YT channels for inspiration of what other people are doing, but I'd avoid trying to copy someone else's setup (for the vague promise of productivity), and instead just start to tinker and tailor your environment to yourself. The base experience is really good. What matters most is that you spend time actually writing useful things down.

For personal use - Obsidian + AI (claude code / codex) + self-authored plugins is the best AI experience available. Folks like Karpathy have been writing a bit about LLM-powered wikis and context management. That seems to be causing a big wave of interest at the moment.

What I see from our business customers is all about AI in a collaborative context. The more advanced customers are typically developing an in-house plugin for their agent so they can make setup really easy, centralize token tracking, and aggregate learnings (while respecting employee privacy/customization). We also see strong interest in the privacy/security aspect from red teams (trying to track the huge influx of vulnerabilities).

IMO the practices for using Obsidian effectively in a work environment are under-represented on YT and in tutorials (we have done some light consulting in this area).

(I'm the developer of Relay / https://relay.md )

There are a handful of plugins that might help. Obsidian sync works well for device sync and the CLI is great for agentic stuff.

For real-time collaboration, some options are:

- Relay

- Peerdraft

- Screen garden

(full disclosure - I am the developer of Relay)