asnaroo
@asnaroo.bsky.social
Learning by building a programming language, OS, computer, a trash-collecting drone swarm, and an LLM-powered social media app that doesn't suck. But first, a cup of tea! #buildinpublic https://microclub.substack.com/about https://github.com/asnar00/zeta
Merry Christmas all of you out there. I’m considering shutting down this Bluesky thing - it’s just somehow become a river of misery… I mean I get that times are tough but this isn’t the feed I need. I think I’m gonna maintain it long enough to get all my friends onto my new app and then peace out.
Continuing with the Android porting process, just diving in there and wiring up the toolbar, and getting images and editing kind of working. Today trying out a dictation tool called "wispr flow" that purports to revolutionise Claude Code, and whaddaya know it's pretty good. youtu.be/VTc4Nyj_zSM?...
miso 30.1 : porting to android, first go on wispr-flow
YouTube video
youtu.be
Our putative user #1 didn't pan out - so let's increase the likelihood of finding a new one by bringing the Android version up to date. And, in so doing, build a better understanding of the outlines of a magic "port this to anything" button. Which is nice. youtu.be/V5lltywEHpU?...
miso 30 : porting to android
YouTube video
youtu.be
Since we're about to have two real users instead of one pretend one, we need to make sure that push notifications work - badging the app icon to show when there's new stuff to see. youtu.be/J2M8eleV-oU?...
miso 29 : push notifications
YouTube video
youtu.be
I haven’t read this and probably you shouldn’t either but it sure sounds like the kind of thing you ought to read philippeoger.com/pages/deep-d...
Deep Dive into NVIDIA's Virtuous Cycle - Philippe Oger
philippeoger.com
If you see this, quote with your model of positive masculinity
Nic@nicferrier.bsky.social · 8mo agoIf you see this, quote with your model of positive masculinity.
More trouble… a sign, if ever you needed one, that getting on bandwagons is ill advised 🙄 www.newsweek.com/ai-backlash-...
The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience With Tech Giants Is Running Out
Welcome to the slop era.
newsweek.com
But it’s so great and why doesn’t everyone see that etcetc jonready.com/blog/posts/e...
Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready
A post about everyone in Seattle hating AI.
jonready.com
Er I mean if you think about it, it makes perfect sense so why not shujisado.org/2025/11/27/g...
The Current State of the Theory that GPL Propagates to AI Models Trained on GPL Code
When GitHub Copilot was launched in 2021, the fact that its training data included a vast amount of Open Source code publicly available on GitHub attracted significant attention, sparking lively de…
shujisado.org
I made this sort of fanciful demo video / concept ad for firefly - now tentatively named "microclub". I'll populate it with more content and users once they're available, but I think this is a reasonable first stab. Or maybe there's better ideas? youtu.be/XhoMmQMgK1w?...
microclub : a concept demo
YouTube video
youtu.be
LLM search is awesome, but way too slow (5+ seconds for just my tiny database of posts). So let's make it instantaneous, scale to arbitrarily large numbers of posts, work in the background, and notify you about new matches. All in two hours? No sweat. youtu.be/NTb90ouBd0E?...
miso 27.1 : "instantaneous" LLM search?
YouTube video
youtu.be
This is the "big one" : LLM search processing. RAG works, to a point, but the rankings are fragile - so let's use an LLM (Claude, via its API) to process the results, get rid of duds and re-rank by relevance to the actual query. Add caching so we don't bankrupt ourselves. youtu.be/K80jMUDqz5I
miso 27 : LLM search re-ranking
YouTube video
youtu.be
The way AI takes over isn’t by gaslighting us and extricating itself int a server it bought using crypto tokens or whatever. It just writes all the code and rears all our children.
Client demo tomorrow, so let's get the interface to some semblance of done-ness, fix a couple of bugs, and we're good to go, kinda-sorta. youtu.be/l8_jj3rRrZs
miso 26.2 : finish the interface
YouTube video
youtu.be
Fail early fail often. I approve. Oh also, the curtain - perfect, no notes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYr-...
Russia’s much-hyped humanoid AI robot collapsed on stage during its debut presentation
YouTube video by ONEST
youtube.com
Not the hugest step forward, but today I implemented queries - posts that are shortcuts to searches. This means I had to "reify" (oooh) the notion that posts have "types" (or "templates", or "tags") which broke Claude's brain a tiny bit. But we got there, wherever "there" is. youtu.be/v-mva75vi7Q
miso 26.1 : queries
YouTube video
youtu.be
Sounds like good tech to gain mastery in if you want to make drone swarms tha t pick up litter drfeifei.substack.com/p/from-words...
From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI’s Next Frontier
In 1950, when computing was little more than automated arithmetic and simple logic, Alan Turing asked a question that still reverberates today: can machines think?
drfeifei.substack.com
Today we implemented search! Not just any search, but semantic search ("search by meaning") using magical embedding vectors computed by a local language model running on the Mac Mini M2. With GPU-enabled matching no less. A walk in the park for Claude. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQKP...
miso 26 : semantic search
YouTube video
youtube.com
funny cos true... but also good, right? because now anyone can make stupid apps that don't work very well?
This seems relevant. The fun thing about building a social media app as an experiment is that you get to re-imagine the way this works, from the ground up. Or… what if it empowered its *users* to re-imagine the way it works? youtu.be/yWj33Ud8iag?...
Going Viral Taught Me the Internet Is Broken — but Fixable | Deja Foxx | TED
YouTube video by TED
youtu.be
Editing works nicely, so let's move onto post organisation. Step 1: make every post a child of its author's profile post. Step 2: implement a "most-recently-updated users" view. Pretty good, but learnt some stuff about delegation. youtu.be/J5Fthw0My38
miso 25 : let's organise posts by users
YouTube video
youtu.be
More messing - working on making editing posts a really nice experience. Which is something that you can't do on Bluesky, interestingly. Also, why the hell do I seem to be writing an ad-hoc layout engine? youtu.be/-ntiDByfItc?...
miso 24 : let's make post editing nicer
YouTube video
youtu.be
More “is it or isn’t it”. I think this is closer to my evolving viewpoint on the matter www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about.
newyorker.com
Today I decided to get rid of the dumb "create new post" button and make a proper toolbar. Along the way, I got bored with having to hit buttons all the time and gave Claude the ability to do that. So now it can fix bugs without me in the loop! Game changer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eROm...
miso 23 - let's make a nice toolbar
YouTube video
youtube.com
