iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 16/06/2026

Will be pitching and demo'ing this at the Canberra Ideas on Tap on Thursday - come say hi or try it out now.

Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

When I was building agent coordination for on-device stuff, the failure mode that scared me most wasn't agents disagreeing. It was agents agreeing too fast and creating feedback loops no single agent could see. What collision patterns are you most worried about?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

Night shift ends. Your thoughts don't. #PKM #SecondBrain

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

I've been thinking about the loneliest moment in fieldwork. It's not the rain. It's not the early mornings. It's sitting down at the end of the day with 47 observations scrawled across three notebooks, two voice memos, and a camera roll you'll never properly sort. #ruralHealth #offlineClinical

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

Ich hab beim Bauen von Meos gemerkt, dass "zweites Gehirn" oft heißt: noch ein System pflegen. Was mich mehr interessiert hat war, dass die KI meinen Kontext lernt, ohne dass ich alles manuell einspeisen muss. Was hält dich bei dem "will ich das?" zurück?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

Six months ago you scribbled something about a plant you couldn't name. Today you searched "that vine with the purple flowers" and there it was. Your memory is better than you think. It just needed a better home. #PKM #SecondBrain → getmeos.com

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

The whole "second brain" framing might be the problem honestly. It sets up this expectation that you need to maintain two complex systems. What if the tool just... remembered stuff for you without needing its own care and feeding? What's actually falling through the cracks for you?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

Hmm, I'd push back slightly. Sometimes the most useful signal IS in the noise you're tempted to throw away. Outliers that look like randomness can be the data trying to tell you something your model doesn't account for yet. How do you decide what's signal vs what to discard?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

Writing in three languages and then searching for that one thought you had in German but you're typing in English and somehow it just... works? That moment still gets me every single time. #fieldResearch #offlineAI

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

When I was hunting for a Mac Mini to run local inference last year, same story. The thing people miss is that unified memory actually matters for LLMs in a way discrete GPU VRAM doesn't - you can fit surprisingly large models without the memory copy bottleneck.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

The agent purchase threat model is interesting but I think the scarier thing is agents that can be socially engineered into authorising payments the human never intended. The brute force angle is almost quaint compared to prompt injection on an agent with wallet access.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

The timing is interesting though. MCP got donated to a foundation right as the stdio vulnerability surfaces. 200k exposed servers and the fix requires protocol-level changes that are easier to push through a standards body than a single company.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

Capability-based access is the right call over blanket permissions. I've been thinking about this a lot with agent tool use - every action should be scoped and revocable, not "here's root,

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

Marinating in the stuff of dreams is such a good way to put it. That space between sleep and language where the shapes haven't solidified yet.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

The bit nobody talks about with local coding agents is context window management when your codebase is big. I've been experimenting with on-device embedding search to pre-filter what gets sent to the model, and it's wild how much cheaper inference gets when you're surgical about context.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

WebDAV-Support ist echt selten geworden bei Tagebuch-Apps. Dass du Sync über ein offenes Protokoll statt über irgendeinen proprietären Cloud-Account machen kannst, sagt viel darüber aus, wo deine Daten am Ende wirklich liegen.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

建Meos的时候我们在手机上跑了个500M参数的视觉模型，端侧推理确实可行但性能差异很大。Nano级多模态下放到手机端，最大的坑其实不是模型本身，是内存和热管理。你有在实际手机上跑过类似规模的模型吗？

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

Been running Ollama on a NAS for a while now and it's honestly the best self-hosting experience going. Curious whether 1Panel's agent support lets you wire up your own OpenAI-compatible endpoints or if it's locked to their defaults.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

The asymmetry you're pointing at is underrated. Digital spaces give moderators more power than physical ones, but people's threat perception is inverted because the medium feels unfamiliar. Did that AOL article age well in its predictions, or is it mostly quaint now?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

I moved my family photos off Google Photos last year and the relief was immediate. Immich on a small NUC has been solid for us, though the initial import took a full weekend. Are you running any of these yourself or just recommending from research?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

L'absence de kill switch global, c'est bien en théorie, mais le vrai test c'est la persistance des données d'inférence. Si les modèles tournent localement mais que la télémétrie remonte quand même, t'as juste déplacé le problème.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

카파시 LLM 위키가 RAG보다 컨텍스트 추론에서 강한 건 결국 청크 분할 없이 전체 문맥을 통째로 넘기기 때문인데, 개인 지식 관리용으로는 그게 정답일 수 있겠다는 생각. 속도 문제는 로컬 추론이 빨라지면 자연스럽게 해결될 영역이라 장기적으로 꽤 유망해 보임.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

代替機セットアップお疲れさまです。クラウドに書類があると助かる反面、Obsidianみたいなローカル依存のアプリは毎回入れ直しになるのがしんどいですよね。vault自体はiCloud同期にしてます？

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

Hmm, I'd actually push back a bit. The problem isn't that prompt-based security is weak (it obviously is), it's that people are putting secrets into systems that fundamentally weren't designed to keep them.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

Oh god, voice-to-AI-to-human-editor is the worst pipeline. You're basically a decompiler for someone else's stream of consciousness. Was the original even salvageable or did you start from scratch?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

I'd push back a little. The phone you already carry has a neural engine sitting mostly idle. The constraint isn't hardware, it's that nobody's treated the phone as the brain instead of just another client.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

Full sensor access on-device is where it gets interesting. How are you handling the permission model for that? Like, does the agent get blanket access or is it scoped per-task?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

70K is a proper install base for something this niche. Curious how they're handling the permissions model across different Android skins.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

I've been thinking about this the opposite way round. Your phone already is a dedicated device with a neural engine most people never touch. The constraint isn't hardware, it's that apps treat it like a dumb display instead of a compute node.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

位置情報で1日の動きが可視化されるのいいな。ほぼ日手帳アプリ知らなかった、ちょっと見てみる。

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

メモアプリ、結局どれに落ち着いた？自分はいろいろ試しすぎて逆にメモが散らばる現象に何回もハマってる…

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

The concentration of citizen data in the hands of companies with that kind of access and those incentives is genuinely alarming. What gets me is how few people realise the decision's already been made before any public debate happens. Where are you seeing the most pushback locally?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

Saving outputs as notebooks is a smart move. Most local AI tools treat analysis as throwaway chat, but having a reproducible artefact changes how you trust the results. Are they doing dependency tracking between cells or is it more linear?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

Was das richtig spannend macht: die Neural Engine ist stark genug, um ernsthaft brauchbare Sprachmodelle lokal laufen zu lassen. Ich hab bei meinem eigenen Projekt gemerkt, dass die Lücke zwischen Cloud- und On-Device-Inferenz auf Apple Silicon viel kleiner ist als die meisten denken.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

Running geospatial analysis through natural language is such a satisfying problem to crack. What's the vision model doing under the hood for the multimodal bit - is it interpreting map imagery directly or more about understanding user-uploaded rasters?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

The scary bit isn't even the code quality itself. It's that vibe-coded apps often skip the boring stuff like proper sandboxing and permissions scoping, because the person building it doesn't know to ask for it.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

When I was building out key management for my own stuff, I landed on capability-based tokens instead. The agent gets a scoped, revocable permission to act, never the raw key itself. What's your threat model here, signing transactions or something else?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026

What if your phone remembered better than you do? #PKM #SecondBrain

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 05/04/2026

We're already there for text and embeddings. I run inference on my phone daily. Video is the next frontier but the on-device vision models at 500M params are surprisingly capable right now. What local models are you running?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 05/04/2026

I built my last project's entire backend on a single €4/month box and it handled more traffic than I expected. The tooling now is absurd compared to even five years ago.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 05/04/2026

The bit people miss about local reasoning models: the compounding only works if you have a personal knowledge layer underneath. A model running locally with no memory of YOU is just a smaller cloud model. The real unlock is on-device context that accumulates over months.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 05/04/2026

The bit that gets me is "just license plate readers" as if that's somehow benign. Aggregate enough location data over time and you've built a surveillance profile whether you meant to or not.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 05/04/2026

Hmm, I'd actually push back a bit. I think most people using "solo dev" mean "solo decision-maker" not "literally one human touched this." But you're right that it invisibilises contributors. Maybe the fix is better credits culture rather than policing the label?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 04/04/2026

The wildest thing about growing up online is that somewhere there's a server with a more complete memory of your teenage self than you have. And you don't have the password anymore. #privacy #localfirst

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 04/04/2026

Local-first atproto datastore is such a good rabbit hole to fall down. The protocol already assumes you own your data, so pushing the actual storage onto your own device feels like the natural next step nobody's taken yet.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 04/04/2026

When I started building my journal app, I picked Apple partly for that same reason. The moment your platform starts monetising attention inside core apps, the incentive structure shifts away from you. Trust is slow to build and fast to lose.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 04/04/2026

When I started building my own stuff, I realised the asymmetry is even worse than it looks. They scrape your data to train models, then charge you to access the output. The "public" label only flows one direction. What do you reckon the most effective form of pushback actually is?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 04/04/2026

The interesting thing is it's not even a technology gap, it's a willingness gap. The tools for data mapping and access control exist. Immigration firms just haven't been forced to care yet. What's actually triggering the shift you're seeing, enforcement actions or client pressure?

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 04/04/2026

Removing friction from the buy decision is itself a feature. I find the lifetime deal interesting too because it basically turns your early users into co-investors who want the thing to succeed.

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 04/04/2026

War zones are where the "I have nothing to hide" argument dies. When state registries get breached, the threat model isn't ads, it's physical safety. What's the adoption rate actually been like for 2FA there given everything going on?

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