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Thoughts on AI tools, local-first software, and building things for the curious.

Your AI Forgets Everything. Here's How I Fixed It.

Every new session, your AI wakes up a stranger. How I gave mine persistent memory with two systems, Hindsight for technical facts, Ib for relational context, so it stops forgetting between conversations.

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Stop Vibing and Write the Doc First

Pure vibes coding works right up until it doesn't. How writing a simple PRD and a CLAUDE.md before any code stopped me throwing away half my builds, and kept the AI from drifting off-scope.

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Why Every App I Build Has Zero Telemetry and One-Time Pricing

No accounts, no subscriptions, no data leaving your device. Why every app I ship is local-first and one-time purchase, a decision I made early and haven't changed.

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70+ GitHub Repos in a Year. No CS Degree. Here's How.

Thirty years in IT, zero formal dev background, and 70+ repos shipped in about a year. The honest story of what changed when I started building with AI, and why domain knowledge matters more than knowing how to code.

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The 6 Platforms We Monitor to Find AI Tools Early

GitHub, Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit, arXiv, and Dev.to, each one tells a different story about whether an AI tool is real or just noise. Here's what we look for on each.

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What Is RAG and Why It Matters for Your Documents

Retrieval-Augmented Generation sounds complicated, but the idea is simple: instead of guessing, the AI searches your actual documents first. Here's how it works and why it's better.

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Why ThothAI Processes Everything on Your Device

Cloud AI is convenient until it isn't. ThothAI runs entirely on your device, no servers, no accounts, no data leaving your machine. Here's why we built it that way.

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How Goldmine Scores AI Tools Before They Go Mainstream

Most AI tool lists are curated by humans with opinions. Goldmine uses real momentum data from 6 platforms to surface what's actually gaining traction, before the hype cycle kicks in.

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