Good thread on sandboxing as a critical primitive that (outside of maybe web browsers) we could do better on.

With Anthropic models, constantly getting confused and asking for /home/myproj/* when it really wants /home/myuser/myproj

You would think! So far nothing I've found fully scratches the itch. Building from scratch seems weirdly plausible.

Ingestion and canonical data storage seems like the hard part of this. As a solo dev, scp + VPS + filesystem + Git works great. For teams ends up being a huge question mark.

Seems promising!

Distillery and Stash both look interesting, although more like coder building blocks than a broadly-accessible team knowledge base.

- Onyx: promising! but indexing on things like Google Drive seems to be complex to set up and slow (e.g. runs every ten minutes or once a day, not continuously indexed) Suggestions? What are you using?

Product survey so far: - Glean: enterprisey and expensive - Notion: their agents haven't clicked for me yet; and not surprisingly emphasizes Notion docs over flat files - Claude Projects / Team: file store seems pretty limited (file size limits for example), no Discord integration

- Well-designed phone and desktop apps to upload and browse files, and ask questions via chat - Discord bot that tracks discussions and records decisions (goes into the doc system above) - Stretch: coding and deployment of ad-hoc web pages, e.g. "make me a dashboard showing VAT collected by quarter"

I'm in the market for a "team brain" for a small company (<10 people). Wishes: - Ability to dump in PDFs, spreadsheets, text files, URLs, etc - Fast, accurate, and up-to-date search to answer questions like "where's the latest employment contract template?"

Looking forward to this one

As a follow up to the @localfirstconf.com we are doing a unofficial local-first meetup in Cologne on the 15th of October. Maybe this can be a regular event where we can exchange knowledge? The two talks are to get the conversations started. If you are interested in joining, feel free to contact me.

Maybe not so unusual, but I like having a standing workbench in addition to a seated desk. Lots of flexible/movable task lighting. Pinboard for sure.

A century before we would move from fixed-program computers to reprogrammable ones, Ada Lovelace realized that the Analytical Engine was capable of universal computation. Reading her Notes is thrilling for her awestruck articulation of these ideas. Available now; link in reply.

- Repo hosting and deployment workflows. GitHub + Vercel/Netlify/Heroku no longer feels ideal. Raw VPS still too barebones.