Parent, Permaculture, Ukulist, ex-@replicate, ex-@planet, @OpenStack, UserScripts. I love the ocean, browsers, clouds & unicorns. Building @finitesystems
here's a neat physics simulation of a rube goldberg machine built in Finite
every part was authored and assembled by Claude Fable 5.2 in our parametric CAD app, then simulated with MuJoCo4 physics inside our app
i used fable 5.2 to make this "hand-painted" game in less than an hour
Every frame is about 1.5 million brush strokes, running at 200 fps in a browser tab. Open source too!
Experimenting with interactive storytelling in the game world
The voices are generated by a model running in the browser! Made with three.js and WebGPU
1/ I've been working on a scaffold to teach an agent how to build a self-hosting C++ Compiler from scratch for the past 6 months. My reference implementation can now compile C++ code 4x faster than GCC and Clang
working on engineering software exposes you to a whole new level of beauty
I've been debating getting the duo and my colleague went and built one in @FiniteSystems ....
I love watching the small mechanisms
I gave it this drawing and kept typing notes. Make the hinge thinner. The cam shouldn't bind there. Every version that answered a note is in here, all 3,457 of them, and the phone at the end opens.
Hey r/GIS 👋 It's really me, u/planet-ash
My colleague Karla King and I are doing a Reddit AMA about https://t.co/LcIj4rUkAw, EO & AI, and satellite imagery this Friday, Nov 6, 10am–12pm PT. Ask us anything.
in early 2024 i did a talk on "shapeshifting machines".
after years of exploration, i have some answers.
ink os - the social computer is now open source.
there is a desktop + web client and you can run it locally or connect to a remote host.
parents, don't let your kids use sccache
it starts out "let's move the cache to the cloud"
next thing you know compiles are happening in a remote cluster...
this is how you end up with things like bazel ... bazel ... not even once!
We've just made a breakthrough: the first true omni model running 100% locally in a browser... fully end-to-end, with no separate ASR or TTS models needed.
With custom WebGPU kernels, we're able to run LFM3-Omni-2B at ~280 tok/s on my M4 Max, accepting visual, audio, or text and producing interleaved text and audio tokens. Just 90 ms to the first token and 140 ms to the first audio.
The future of on-device multimodal AI agents is going to be wild.
Introducing things-cli: a command-line tool and MCP server for Things 3 by @culturedcode.
https://t.co/qBJwTiKMux
I've used Things for most of my adult life. My Logbook still has a to-do I completed on July 27, 2008: "Switch to zsh".
Like a lot of people who practice GTD, I got really good at capture but never got the hang of review. Some weeks (or months), my inbox has over a hundred items. In the past, I might have declared bankruptcy. But now, with my buddy Claude and this CLI, I can stay on top of it.
things-cli reads straight from the local Things database. Writes go through the Things URL scheme, and then it reads the database again to make sure it went through.
Start read-only, and turn on writes when you're ready:
$ brew install mattt/tap/things
$ things mcp config --read-only
A gentle reminder to teams building agentic systems.
Have fun; enjoy the process of exploring novel architectures involving flashy new toys; learn new things along the way.
However
Don’t forget that you are building these things to solve a real problem. Your customers require results; they need value; they want solutions.