When I’m making music in the evenings, I like a little creative nudge. So I built a self-hosted system that sends me a daily Oblique Strategy quote on WhatsApp while I play - free to run and using WhatsApp Web directly from my machine. Here’s how it works.

I tend to use LLM coding agents in the cloud, and then roborev locally to assess the code. This bash command pulls from git, and runs roborev only if changes were pulled

Now I can finally play with my local SAM Audio installation and discover just how useful it really is. Meta advertises it as a professional-grade tool, but is it?

There are times when you need unique branch names or commit messages. This is easy to do directly from the command line.

Meta recently released SAM-Audio, an exciting new audio LLM capable of separating sounds from complex mixtures using text or visual prompts. Like many research models, it isn’t installable out of the box for macOS users. To get it running on my M1 Mac was a bit of an adventure, but I managed in the end.