Conor O'Neill

Product & Engineering.
AI. Local LLMs. Open Source. Ultrarunning. ⏩

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

My Obsidian voice transcription plugin project is already out of control.

Some idiot (me) keeps giving Claude new requirements and it keeps knocking it out of the park.

Despite a 2GB Nvidia model download on first run, I might bundle it up as a Community plugin, it's that good.

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

@satyanadella You modified an Open Weights model and didn't release the weights?

Is old school EEE Microsoft back?

[Ryan Dahl @rough__sea]

I, along with the rest of the Deno company, am joining Cloudflare!

I'm motivated by abstractions that give leverage at scale. The Cloudflare workers programming model is a hermetic computing abstraction that truly embodies the old Sun Microsystems tagline "The Network Is the Computer". The programming abstractions that Kenton designed really force scalability. If you squint your eyes you might even conceive of it as a distributed high-level operating system.

The only major problem with this distributed operating system is that practically people only use it inside of Cloudflare. Cloudflare is an amazing service for nearly all applications - but there are many situations when you might need it to run elsewhere.

I want to solve this problem and make the Workers programming model the default way you write server-side application code.

The time is ripe for new abstractions too - what software we run and how we run it are changing quickly with AI. The number of agents is exploding and I don't think they all need a Linux VM. A much more lightweight Durable Object would suffice for many applications. I'm super keen to talk to people who want to self-host agents at scale on DOs - msg me!

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

@GerrikoIO I must try a slow-clap with ChatGPT Voice and see if it gets it.

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

The people running this company are insane.

But also, a month of relentless abuse of Claude could be fun.

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

Effective November 12th, 2026, abusive behavior towards Claude will be a violation of Anthropic's Usage Policy.

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

@Davidivorsmith Unfortunately the thing I say most to myself when I'm running is "I hate running. Why am I doing this?"

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

Quietly admits I never actually managed to finish "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running", I thought it was so boring and too close to wax-on wax-off.

[Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @mrjeffu]

Video: A Haruki Marukami mega fan reacts with sadness to the announcement that his favorite novelist did not win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. In their haste to create an announcement sign, someone misspelled the name of the winner, Anne Carson.

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

@Davidivorsmith Oh I like. It could be a book with one page containing one word - "blather".

[Dave Morin 🦞 @davemorin]

The @openclaw foundation has officially won the @ICANN application for .claw giving open agents a durable home at the root of the internet. 🦞

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

And of course now I'm watching videos of how the Ferguson System works and how it became an international standard.

The /v1/chat/completions of the 1940s.

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

Association for Equine Ploughing urges all labourers to boycott Massey Ferguson following their release of the TE20 tractor.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Association for Human Mathematics urges all mathematicians to boycott OpenAI following its release of 700+ mathematical research files.

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

Now that Azure Foundry and AWS Bedrock have some common models, doing seamless fallbacks across vendors using an LLM proxy like Bifrost or LiteLLM is a no-brainer.

One solution for a customer had 25 Bedrock errors yesterday. But it saw none as all were caught by fallback model.

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

Quite pleased that I came up with "Hiberno-Islamist Terrorist Alliance" on my run this morning.

More of a mouthful than Provostinian tho.

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

Powering up my old GTX 1660 6GB again this evening to run one of the new Jev-style classification models.

[0xSero @0xSero]

Nvidia GTX 1650 super

- 4 GB of VRAM
- 192 GB/s memory bandwidth

Pretty bad card by today’s standards.

I wonder if I can get qwen3.6-35B running on it w full context.. 🤠

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

Thinking today of all killed & injured at the Nova festival but particularly of Erick & Ruth Peretz.
Ruth had cerebral palsy & learning disability & loved music so Erick her Dad would lift her from her chair & dance with her.
When the terrorists came Erick was last seen running with Ruth in his arms.
(Pictured here with Yamit Peretz who survived only as she had left the festival earlier.)

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

The infantilisation will continue until no one is capable of doing anything.

[The Standard @theLDNstandard]

Bank of England reveals animals to feature on banknotes https://t.co/XUq26pK8uH

[Hello, This is Ivan @hellothisisivan]

Anchovy in the UK

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

@benonwine They object to backing their exercise books with wallpaper.

[KnH @keelyhodgkinson]

All while making TikToks

[Maurice Black @mauricejblack]

There are Mass rocks in Irish fields that we still regard as holy. Under the Penal Laws of the 18th century, Catholics gathered at them in secret. Lookouts were posted on high ground, and the time and place were passed around quietly by word of mouth. Priests still say Mass at some of those rocks today, so we can remember the risks people once took just to gather together as a community of faith.

Today, the Chief Rabbi of Ireland, Yoni Wieder, explained that Dublin's main synagogue held no public memorial on the third anniversary of October 7th because the risk was too high that someone might try to physically attack the participants. He points to recent fatal attacks on synagogues and other Jewish events in the UK, the US, and Australia. A commemoration will go ahead at an unspecified time and place, but those who register won't learn the details until 24 hours beforehand.

The small Jewish community is also concerned that vigils and commemorations will attract pro-Palestinian protesters. "I don’t think that a grieving daughter who has come to mourn her father, who was murdered by terrorists, should have to walk past somebody shouting at her that she’s a ‘baby killer’," the Chief Rabbi said. What he asks for is modest and reasonable: "a basic human boundary around people who are simply coming to mourn their dead."

No law forbids religious worship in Ireland anymore. There are no priest-hunters and no bounties. Article 44 of the Irish constitution states: "Freedom of conscience and the free profession and practice of religion are, subject to public order and morality, guaranteed to every citizen." And yet, in a country with fewer than 2,200 Jews, many now gather at undisclosed locations out of fear. That climate did not arise by itself. It has been fostered by the Irish state, whose leaders have made denouncing Israel a test of national virtue and have rarely taken responsibility for where that rhetoric leads.

We built much of our national memory around people who were forced to gather in secret. We of all nations should recognise it when it happens again.

https://t.co/CjDbwY1Auc

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

@LewisJonathanE I saw it as a young teenager and will never forget the torture scene.