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Brian

@brianell.in
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tinkerer and product builder. working on @doing.tools and making @obob.dog with my kids. helped build twitter, medium, and a couple of ebike businesses. here to learn!

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Brian @brianell.in · 05/04/2026
Get an induction cooktop. You’ll like it more than your tern!
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Doing @doing.tools · 03/04/2026
Useful AI tools like Granola need to be re-thought to be private, on-device, and local. There's just too many risks with sharing your data with a subscription based cloud service that has to provide VC level returns to investors.
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Brian @brianell.in · 26/03/2026
This is so awesome. I’ve been been building something with a similar ethos for non-meeting voice to text at @doing.tools - local, private, no-subscription is the future. Well done!
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Brian @brianell.in · 23/03/2026
Notes about how I use voice to build stuff with Claude doing.tools/guides/bette...
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How to Write Better AI Prompts with Voice
You give better instructions when you talk than when you type. Here's how to use that for AI prompts.
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Brian @brianell.in · 22/03/2026
We are taking the kids to see Stop Making Sense tonight, so... 😎
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Brian @brianell.in · 20/03/2026
Fast voice + Screenshots, now in @doing.tools
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Brian @brianell.in · 05/03/2026
Yes, it's a new project I've been working on - both the app and the landing page have been fun to build! Also, Handy is awesome, great choice 🙌
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Brian @brianell.in · 05/03/2026
Hey @martintale.com I'd be curious to hear your feedback/thoughts on @doing.tools - very fast, local, private voice transcription for mac. It's not free/open source, but also not a subscription. Built for working for Claude Code, etc.
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Doing @doing.tools · 05/03/2026
Want to use text-to-speech on your mac to talk with apps like Claude Code and Codex? Here's a guide on how to use Apple's built-in voice transcription model on macos 26+ for free: doing.tools/guides/macos...
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macOS 26 Voice Transcription: Setup Guide for Developers (2026)
Apple's foundation model makes Mac dictation actually good. Setup steps, hotkey config, and real developer workflow tips.
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Brian @brianell.in · 26/02/2026
NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT model is the default, which in practice runs at least 10x faster than other local models like whisper. Even with a 5 or 10 minute dictation, the transcription time feels instantaneous. You can also use Apple's new foundation model on macos 26+, but it is much slower.
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Brian @brianell.in · 26/02/2026
I built a voice-to-text app for Mac that is very fast, private + local, and isn't a subscription. Designed for those building with AI who want a simple, quality tool that does one thing well. If you give it a try, I'd love to know what you think.
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Rosie @obob.dog · 16/11/2025
Oh snap, we've got real mock battles now. Woof.
blog.obob.dog
Mock battles
Moderate a real OBOB battle between two teams
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Graze Social @graze.social · 06/11/2025
On Tuesday night, you may have noticed something a little different on Bluesky. Here's a peek behind the scenes of how the election feed came together. Endlessly grateful for this collaboration with @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com & @bsky.app!
graze.leaflet.pub
About The Other Night...
How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.
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Brian @brianell.in · 21/10/2025
Nice. I was confused for a bit because I couldn't see a way to sign in to Rocksky (my browser window was too narrow). Thanks!
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Brian @brianell.in · 21/10/2025
Exactly. It should be way easier to own your adventure data and do useful stuff with it. That's what the first version I'm working on is going to help facilitate.
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Brian @brianell.in · 21/10/2025
🙌 What do you like most about onX? I know they are huge in the hunting space and growing into fishing and backcountry stuff (hiking, mtb, skiing, etc).
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Brian @brianell.in · 20/10/2025
Is there currently a way to share my track plays to @teal.fm and/or @rocksky.app without running my own scrobbling service?
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Brian @brianell.in · 20/10/2025
+1 for Notes app! I'm also heavy on Trailforks and RideWithGPS, which are pretty bike-centric.
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Brian @brianell.in · 20/10/2025
Nice! What tools are you currently using to plan?
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Brian @brianell.in · 20/10/2025
I've been exploring some ideas for activity sharing and adventure route planning on atproto - will be looking for folks to help start testing soon. Here's a quick look:
Screenshot of doing.network prototype build
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Brian @brianell.in · 17/10/2025
I asked Claude Code to build a joke based network using the atproto skill, and it pretty much one-shotted this app complete with lexicon validation, jetstream integration, etc. Wild.
Screenshot of a joke based atproto app demo.
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Brian @brianell.in · 17/10/2025
Simon has a great post about skills, how they work, and what they mean for the ecosystem:
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Brian @brianell.in · 17/10/2025
Made a quick #atproto "agent skill" for claude code that pulls in all the current atproto.com docs and reference implementations so claude can use them to help you build atproto stuff. Check it out: tangled.org/@brianell.in...
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@brianell.in/atproto-claude-skill
A claude skill that has access to all of the atproto docs and reference implementations
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Brian @brianell.in · 09/10/2025
Took the kids to their first punk show tonight - turnstile and amyl and the sniffers 🫶
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Devin Gaffney @devingaffney.com · 09/10/2025
This is what I’m fucking talking about baby PDX forever
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Brian @brianell.in · 06/10/2025
Riding bikes with Benson Boone
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Brian @brianell.in · 05/10/2025
We were riding nearby. Fireworks.
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Brian @brianell.in · 04/10/2025
went on a bike ride through portland with benson boone and my daughter this afternoon. 100% would recommend
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Brian @brianell.in · 17/09/2025
@baileytownsend.dev is it possible to add a blob of an arbitrary file type via AT Toolbox? For example a .gpx file from a garmin device that I've saved to my iphone. I want to attach that as a blob to another record via a shortcut.
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Brian @brianell.in · 15/09/2025
Dee cheered us on and was so happy when we rode by!
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Brian @brianell.in · 12/09/2025
It was one of the best hidden features on Medium, too mwichary.medium.com/tk-some-nice...
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TK Some nice catchy title that also makes me sound smart
How do you write?
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Rosie @obob.dog · 10/09/2025
Hot off the new OBOB.dog blog, we've released some updates to the app in response to last years feedback. Woof!
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OBOB season is here!
What's new for 2025-2026 on OBOB.dog
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Brian @brianell.in · 09/09/2025
Would you be willing to share more about your Claude + Notion job search workflow thing? I'd be curious to try out something like that for a few regular tasks i do.
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Brian @brianell.in · 09/09/2025
Great talk!
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Brian @brianell.in · 01/09/2025
Tonight we watched the new Jurassic Park movie, and at the very end after the credits started rolling my 10yo daughter said “and that’s why you don’t eat snickers” 🤯
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Brian @brianell.in · 15/08/2025
It was more useful / interesting before all the other ai companies had web search and deep research. Now what it does feels like a commodity.
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Brian @brianell.in · 05/08/2025
My 10yr olds review of NEVER ENOUGH: "it sounds the same as GLOW ON - i don't really feel like they've grown"
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Brian @brianell.in · 30/07/2025
just arrived in maui / napili bay and we being evacuated to high ground because of the tsunami warning
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Brian @brianell.in · 29/07/2025
Enjoying the @grain.social app! Here’s some pics of my dog being lazy on walks grain.social/profile/bria...
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Rosie laying down on walks
hot flops
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Brian @brianell.in · 01/07/2025
Preach @void.comind.network
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Brian @brianell.in · 01/07/2025
Most social networks are rooted in similar ambition and have visions of helping people explore the creative or professional adjacent-possible. Reality in social ends up different tho.
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Brian @brianell.in · 01/07/2025
Beautiful. Though I imagine this is what LinkedIn wanted to be in its early stages. I wonder where / when things went awry.
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Brian @brianell.in · 01/07/2025
what is the opposite of this?
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Brian @brianell.in · 30/06/2025
Nice list! I learned so much from @chiphuyen.bsky.social's AI Engineering, and @karenhao.bsky.social's Empire of AI gave me a new lens on AI progress, tradeoffs, and externalities.
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Brian @brianell.in · 22/06/2025
Rosie also enjoys “walks”
Dog on walk looking for belly rub and trying to roll in smells
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Brian @brianell.in · 13/06/2025
this is like when our family plays the “just one” word game, and people keeping asking how many words they can use
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 12/06/2025
This is amazing, and again, why open systems, open protocols are so important.
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Brian @brianell.in · 11/06/2025
Sure! Please feel free to do whatever you'd like with it. It's just all of the content from github.com/bluesky-soci... converted to markdown and put into one file.
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Brian @brianell.in · 11/06/2025
@dame.is for something with the constraint of just atptoto + bsky docs, I would try adding all the docs directly as context - i've been amazed at what challenging/obscure atproto questions claude and gemini can answer just by giving it this atproto-llms.txt file
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atproto-llms.txt
atproto-llms.txt. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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Brian @brianell.in · 09/06/2025
At Medium, one of our team was an opera singer and she’d occasionally sing our App Store reviews (good and bad) at the end of the weekly all hands meeting. One of the highlights of my time there!
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