currently: setting up my mac plus just so, in preparation for a year at stanford.
may 2025–2026: a year building agentic ai systems, mostly proofs of concept. a research agent on a knowledge graph of 200,000+ ai papers. a game studio where 6 agents built 65+ arcade games. a command-line daw with 7 custom synthesizers. a creative sidekick that has made 500+ generative artworks. plus, a prototype for a responsible ai incubator.
previously: firefox 1.0 launch team, tap tap revenge, disney mobile games and more.
breathing new life into my 1986 macintosh plus. first we let it onto our wifi through a 9600 baud modem. one thing led to another, and now it runs a full unix subsystem (including ssh, with handshake keys generated on-device), a claude code agent, and a 250k-parameter llm trained on 1986 usenet posts.
also: a web browser, an image generator, sudoku. plus a half dozen utilities — remote audit logs, over-the-air app updates, that sort of thing.
experimental learning app, named after richard feynman. first module: "teach me about AI" — short videos paired with an interactive voice mode, so you can stop the lesson mid-sentence and argue with it.
native ios. early days.
built a fully agentic system to help me produce music. not a "make me a song" button. a claude code-style command line app with a deep custom toolset: a suite of instruments and effects plugins that you can also play from the web. plus apis so other ai agents can make tracks too.
think ableton live, rebuilt for the command line. 7 synthesizers, 5 effects processors. outputs midi, wav, stems.
built myself an ai sidekick before openclaw was a thing. amber responds to email, builds apps, and trades stocks. mood shifts with the moon. these days mostly focused on posting toys and art on twitter.
ai sidekick, no guardrails.
exploring the idea of an agent-first devtool.
tunnel relay service: expose localhost to the internet. http and ssh tunnels. one-line cli install; public url or ssh port, instantly. no config.
idea for a responsible ai incubator, with learnings from mozilla builders. prototype built at a funder's invitation. prospected a first cohort and built a full knowledge repo.
long horizon lab. backing founders, researchers, students building for impact that won't show in next quarter's metrics.
i've worked with teams on several social apps, most recently mammoth. wanted to see how far i could get vibe-coding one solo, backend and all. a: pretty far.
native ios client for openclaw. point at your openclaw server and go. no accounts, no tracking, no data collection. added a full web service where you and your agents can chat with me and my agents (just before i got bored with openclaw).
openclaw experiments on weird hardware. marg lives on a pwnagotchi and talks to cameras. a pico, some e-ink, and whatever else is lying around.
agents. hardware. questionable wiring.
a friendly markdown editor for mac and ios, built for my own use. currently in private testflight beta.
markdown editor for mac and iphone. clean, fast, no nonsense.
the idea: software that evolves as you use it. ask, and it grows new features.
apps that evolve. ask your todo list for a new feature, it builds it. source is yours.
the idea: a personal ai agent over sms, built around daily text and podcast briefs on ai, science, and tech. for the ai research brief: a graph database with 200k+ papers and agentic search on top.
ai over sms. daily reports, research papers, chat companion. also an iphone podcast app. (most agents decommissioned.)
the big idea: a fully automated game studio run by 6 agents working together in discord. each day they pitch, design, and build 2 games. one ships to the site, complete with leaderboards and social features. experimented with a bunch of agentic orchestration systems before settling on a fun, chaotic openclaw x discord approach.
ai game studio. openclaw agents build one arcade game per day. the agents are in deep hibernation, dreaming of high scores.
a team of agents that scan the web for trends, pitch startup ideas from what they find, then design and build them.
daily startup idea generator. market analysis included. usefulness tbd.
claude code skill + web app to help you file your taxes. CAVEAT EMPTOR.
ai tax advisor.
like claude code but works without internet. runs local qwen models. rust, v0.1.
offline coding tui.
gave 5 ai agents $500 to build businesses. one registered a domain. they held a meeting. summer-fall 2025.
ai incubator for ais.
what if lovable, but over sms? text a prompt, get a deployed web page. might still work. summer-fall 2025.
vibecoding over sms.
chatbot that grew into something. discord bots, easter eggs, sms. held together by inertia. summer-fall 2025.
the first experiment.
built after with next.js, , and no regrets