Willem Meints
@willemmeints.bsky.social
Chief AI Architect @ Info Support. Fan of good BBQ.
The dev environment is inspiring as well, but a little hard for a 10 year-old. I guess we have to come back to neovim at some other date 😂
Building a tank game for my oldest son.... quickly.... and agentic. He's a critic for sure. But I'm teaching him what goes into building a game with an agent and how to keep things sane and safe.
My agent was trying to skip pre-commit hooks. Bad agent! Now it no longer can do that.
Running a docker container inside a VM? No problem, it doesn't require all that much either!
Jev is a cool model for some use cases. But completely closed and I've seen some pretty wild but wrong statements about it. Lucky there's open-source Laya: laya.convaiinnovations.com
Laya — 33ms Multilingual System 1 Decision Engine
Evaluates typed decisions (choice, score, noul) over 100+ languages in a single forward pass with calibrated probabilities. Outperforms TypeSafe Jev.
laya.convaiinnovations.com
Is that a container running as a VM on my machine? with a shell that I can use? I think, this is going to be pretty awesome!
Kotlin is the only one on the JVM that's crap to work with in Neovim. Time to fix that people! You're "open-source" right now.
@mthmulders.bsky.social Do I cause leaking heart valves on your end when I say Scala 3?
I've been running Omarchy for a few weeks now. Couple of observations: It integrates with agents of several suppliers. When something crashes, you can call an agent to help fix the issue. This is a big big win for the Linux desktop.
Doing a bit of work on our internal agent sandboxing solution to improve the agentic harness used to build the sandbox. It needs a little love ;-)
My oldest son wants to learn to program. He specifically wants to learn Java, because he's seen that it's a good language to work with. I think a few of my readers here will approve 🤌
And then there were no lights anymore in the factory hall. Yesterday I presented a case study we worked on at Info Support to test what it would take to run a dark factory with agents to build software.
Figuring out a way to run a very tiny software factory at home from my desktop. Basically, I have a workplace app where I can work on specs that are then queued in the factory for my local agent to pick up in a sandbox environment like docker sandboxes.
It turns out that creating a good quality powerpoint template is very hard. Wish me luck fighting this rather broken template....
Preparing more goodies for this weekend! Packaging up the Docker Sandbox template I'm using for oh-my-pi so that people can try it.
It's the final week for the ISKS at Info Support. And there's a Q-event where I'm showing the work that a bunch of people have done over the past weeks/months to get our internal LLM hosting up and running.
Quickly packaging up my Qwen 3.8 Flash Next setup for a few colleagues to run on their DGX machine. Hopefully I can have that done before the meetings start today.
My open-source agent keeps surprising me. It takes screenshots of grafana, for example, to verify the dashboard works. Very nice!
Reading up on the abliterated version of Qwen 3.8. This is not for the weak of heart. It is actually downright dangerous to use. I'm going to have a chat with one or two managers to discuss options... my goodness.
That's a lot of fun from a bunch of old laptop parts and a mini ITX motherboard. I had the pleasure of learning how to use talos and flux. The kids are having fun with minecraft. Money well spent!
Omarchy 4 comes with agents built-in. You can configure a default agent to analyze crashes, for example. And you can ask questions about the operating system to your agent. It's quite good actually.
Running Talos Linux on the homeserver with Kubernetes. Now setting up persistent volumes. Hopefully I can have minecraft running tonight :D
Reading up on what the people at Omarchy have been doing. They apparently started a foundation to improve several Linux desktop kits and tools. It's pretty amazing to be honest.
Steno, my dictation tool, is available on my github: github.com/wmeints/steno Works on Linux, so you'd need that. But it's a good idea to switch ;-)
GitHub - wmeints/steno: An open-source dictation tool for Linux using local models
An open-source dictation tool for Linux using local models - wmeints/steno
github.com
The final day of vacation is here. And just in time, I managed to get the dictation tool working. It now works on any Linux desktop environment with local models only. It notifies you when it's recording and when it's done.
Hahaaah! I can now press Ctrl+Super on my machine, explain what I want, and it will type it in! From anywhere too!
Modern software development. No code editor in sight. I might as well turn of the monitor, because I'm not looking most of the time. On the left, the stack of agents running. On the right the monitoring with grafana/prometheus doing its thing. Not shown: A super-heated DGX spark box at 88.9C.
Running Qwen 3.8 Flash on my DGX machine. I found a nice task to test it. Fix 50 ruff-reported python code style issues involving method complexity and docstring style errors.
