Rob Terrell

That last name, what does it remind me of

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke

this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

Hamnet: men would rather write the greatest play of all time than go to therapy.

Hamnet at the MVFF — Chloe Zhao and Jesse Buckley Q&A

(…I’m in the last row of the theatre obv)

Amazing. I did not know mlx-swift could do constrained generation with generable.

Atari ST kicked ass tho. MIDI ports!

Bolinas sunset, six seconds til end of summer.

Oooh I run a bot account that’s perfect for this: @bigbookoflies.vgg.lol

OCR first and then let the LLM normalize the text into JSON?

Moving the team to the “perverse bonbon” methodology just because I like the name

It’s a desktop RAG app. Currently uses embeddings to create document chunks, which get submitted with a RAG prompt. It’s a good point that maybe I could better tune the chunking for foundation models… but uses 512-ish token chunks very quickly the context is full.

Short context window made it a poor choice for my app.

They accidentally left some kind of barrier at the top left, weird??

I haven't seen any local LLMs that are great at Mac topics (i.e. Obj-C, Swift). AppleScript is so old it might have decent representation in training data, but it's also obscure and mostly ignored so I'd bet there's little instruction tuning that applies.

Claude is running in the Bad Place (the cloud). I'll try local LLMs later. The Claude Desktop app calls a local MCP process (stdio or http). For sudo tasks, Claude needs to write the AppleScript to run a shell command "with administrator privileges" & the user needs to click on an approval dialog.

The MCP server itself is a SwiuftUI app that has a GUI for debugging.

Pixelmator Pro has an AppleScript dictionary, so I tried the @simonwillison.net test

Could have been worse!

Seems great, right? Well, here's the bad idea part.

Bad idea Friday: I made an MCP server that lets Claude run applescripts on my computer.

Big sigh at the thought of needing to get into Zapruder-level frame-by-frame analysis of a TikTok video I casually browsed, found interesting, and must now authenticate, a hundred times per day

Loved that camera!

Arri 16?

Headcannon birth of the first order: Dedra Meero spends 3 years in prison on a work crew building parts for Death Star II. She becomes a crew (later floor) leader. After the Emperor dies she is released in a general amnesty for political prisoners—after all, she was jailed for being a rebel spy.

The fictional Terminator manifests in our reality as a roomba with a knife duct-taped on top, but still manages to wipe out humanity.

Inverse correlation? So everything is fine as is?

The Live action figure???

Blue Origin 2 for 2 at sending a celebrity to space for PR purposes only to have the celebrity prefer earth

Back from travels.

The good news is, it’s a lousy reader