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Apple's on-device model has been great for cleaning up dictation. The honest reason why, and the three places it falls short once you push it past reshaping text.

Most dictation tools send your voice to a server to turn it into text. Sonari runs the model on your Mac, so the audio never leaves. Why I'm building it that way.

Press a shortcut and talk. Sonari pastes clean, punctuated text into whatever app you're in, and it all runs on your Mac. Your voice never leaves it.

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Your notes are plain markdown files on disk. The SQLite database Halcyon keeps beside them is just a cache it can delete and rebuild, which is what lets your notes outlive the app.

NativePHP v4 renders Blade components as real SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose views with no web view. Here is what SuperNative changes, plus how to upgrade.

Halcyon is a markdown notes app for iPhone. Every note is a real .md file you can open in the Files app. Works offline, no account, and signs in to the same encrypted sync your Macs use.

A markdown notes app and editor for macOS with real vim bindings. Your notes stay plain .md files in a folder you choose, so they stay greppable, git-versionable, and editable in Neovim while the app ...

I've been gone for four months, and I owe you an explanation. Since May 2025 I've been struggling with the hardest mental health crisis of my life, and in February my wife had a catastrophic ankle inj...

Chris and TJ discuss their recent projects, focusing on the development...

The Iris truth system got a major overhaul. Stricter promotion filters out temporal garbage, conflict detection catches contradictions before they merge into frankenstruths, and generation tracking sh...

I was updating docs when I realized the tier system was fundamentally flawed. We were using importance as a proxy for universality, and they're completely different things. This is how Truths fix that...

Claude Code is powerful, but performance degrades as context grows. Ralph Loops solve this by wrapping your AI agent in a while loop with external state. Here's how I've been using this pattern to shi...

Claude Code is only as good as the context you give it. I've been building out a custom setup with skills, hooks, and MCP servers that's turned it into a genuine productivity multiplier for our Larave...

TJ and Chris discuss their personal and professional challenges,...

If you’re struggling to get your engineers to adopt AI, keep reading.

What's Changed feat: Add global request_timeout configuration by @kargnas in #834 Feature: Map ToolCallDeltaEvent in BroadcastAdapter by @webard in #837 fix(openrouter): Handle null id/model in AP...

What happens when an AI assistant remembers too much? The same thing that happens to humans: you need to forget intelligently. Here's how I built multi-generational memory consolidation for Iris

Chris and TJ reflect on their holiday experiences, discuss the development of TJ's personal AI project named Iris, and navigate the ethical concerns surrounding AI technology. They explore the evol...

Ad a rollercoaster of 2025 but 2026 is exciting. Announcing Iris.

Ad a rollercoaster of 2025 but 2026 is exciting. Announcing Iris.

Ad a rollercoaster of 2025 but 2026 is exciting. Announcing Iris.

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AI is everywhere. It can create songs, build entire apps, and even drive our cars. But... can it play Pictionary? We're about to find out. Today, we're building an AI-powered drawing guessing game. I...