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Auto-saving Browser Documents to Augment Local AI Model Context

I've written a bit about my interest in using local artificial intelligence for memory recall, and this week I finally made some progress on a project to start turning some of my earlier thinking into an actual part of my workflow. Memory Cache is a project that allows you to save a webpage as a PDF

TIL: Installing YOURLS on an AWS Lightsail Instance using Nginx

Back in 2015, I bought the domain 'livi.link' to use as a shortlink domain. Why? It's freaking adorable, and it meant that I could leave links around the internet that would be immediately identified as mine. I set up a bit.ly account with Twitter

No, Llama 2 is not actually open source

While LLAMA 2 is certainly interesting, and more openly licensed than some other AI language models, it's definitely not open source. Open source is a term that is defined by a non-profit called the Open Source Initiative. The OSI explicitly calls out that it is not sufficient for code to be open fo

TIL: Adding a Not-Yet-Landed Patch into my Local Firefox Build

I wanted to build Firefox from source in order to implement the changes found in the patch stack linked above. That's the beauty of open source - I was able to be sent a patch that someone wrote last summer, and even though it hasn't been made production-ready and merged, I can start working with it

Open Source, not OpenAI

The open source movement gives me hope. It's how I'm able to run multiple different interfaces to local language models that can be fine-tuned on my computers with my own data, and know that it's not leaving my own environment. It's how I can build the Firefox web browser locally, and add custom pat

TIL: How to Build Firefox from Source

Today, I learned how to build Firefox from source. I've been a Mozillian since 2019, but this is the first time that I built the browser on my own machine. My sophomore year of college, I used Visual Studio and en embedded iexplore.exe window to make a simplified browser that had bookmarks permanent

In the Era of Multi-Dimensional Computing, XR is the Future of Front-End; AI is the Future of Back-End

My work over the past ten+ (wtf?) years has focused on emerging technologies, primarily spatial computing and machine learning - so this moment is pretty spectacular to see. We're entering a new age where generative AI can create infinite worlds of content as a tool to aid and augment human creativi

SelfOS: Visions of a Personal Agent

As we begin crossing a new productivity frontier with the availability of large language models and advances in artificial intelligence algorithms, I've been thinking a lot about the use of these tools in helping us introspect and communicate. Enter the idea of SelfOS. My long-term vision for SelfOS

Is Personalized AI the Ultimate User Agent?

"A computer program representing a person" - is personalized artificial intelligence the ultimate destination for the browser user agent?

Authoring Immersive Environments with glTF for Multi-User Mixed Reality Web Applications

I was invited to give a lightning talk at the W3C Inclusive Design for Immersive Technology workshop about what we’re doing with scene authoring through Spoke for Hubs. As with many of my talks, I think they make better blog posts, and I’m excited to share this one