Now

slowclaw.social

Deep in the guts of the app: audio transcription with local Whisper-class models wired through Zig to llama.cpp, a Nostr feed reader, embeddings for a personal interest profile, and a journaling agent. The MVP principle from my journal: "First it should be useful to me — and then only can it be useful to anyone else."

New father

I became a dad in January 2026. The memos from that week say it better than I can now: meeting colleagues afterward, everyone asking how it feels — "It's about connecting to your feelings of that moment. It's an opportunity to reflect."

The current questions

• What happens to money when everyone creates? Does paying dissolve in a digital space we all enrich equally?
• Can there be a laid-back personal assistant — one that isn't in a hurry?
• Vipassana as a system change, not just a technique.
• How to give every raw rambling to an AI and get back articles, PRDs, chapters — with an LLM as judge to weed out the bad ideas.

This is a now page. It answers: what am I focused on right now. Last big update: this site's launch.