Ugh. It pains me to say it, but this is probably the best laptop in the world. And it's not even close. Shame about macOS, though. I've been lucky enough to be generously provided with a MacBook Air (thanks Beth!) primarily so XMALab gets compiled and built properly for macOS. It's the base model —... Continue Reading →
The Local AI Treadmill – everything I’ve built will be obsolete in weeks
I've been writing posts here about getting set up with local AI, agents, harnesses, and what I've done with them. It's fun, and it stretches my computer legs in a way they haven't been stretched recently. But I can't shake this nagging feeling that it's all a colossal waste of time, because everything's moving so... Continue Reading →
Building My Personal AI Research Assistant: What I’ve Done So Far
I've been spending the last few weeks setting up Hermes Agent as a personal research assistant, and it's gone from "chatbot I talk to on Telegram" to "actually useful thing that does stuff" pretty quickly. Thought it was worth documenting what we've achieved so far, because some of it's genuinely useful and I suspect other... Continue Reading →
Beholder Vision Desktop
I reviewed Beholder Vision back in 2022, and then it was a web-based service, where you upload your photos, it produces a model, and you then download it. That service is still available, but Beholder have now released a desktop version. Best of all, it’s complete free for personal use. It’s technically ad-supported, though so... Continue Reading →
