Local-First

My iPhone next to my MacBook Pro over a USB-C cable. The phone shows a tidy page 1; the laptop terminal shows the agent's summary: before, dock plus 9 pages, 2 of them hidden; now, dock plus 3 pages.

Software Isn't Dead. It's Democratized. I Rebuilt My iPhone Home Screen in 33 Minutes.

BLUF (bottom line up front): I don’t think software is dead. I don’t think SaaS is dead. I think software just got democratized. On Friday night I went from “huh, cool Reddit post” to my iPhone’s home screen completely reorganized around how I actually use it: 33 minutes, idea to verified on the phone, and I didn’t write a single line of code. A decent model, a good harness, and an idea. The only real limit left is imagination. ...

A view from a front window: a man walking up the path toward the door holding a bag and a bottle, boxed on device with a green person label, with his vehicle boxed and a blue vehicle label, and a caption reading Limen local VLM auto-label on-device no cloud

Limen: I Put a Camera at My Window and Asked Who Owns What It Sees

This week is Fix, Hack, Learn (FHL) at work (Microsoft), our internal week to chase a build we care about. Last FHL I worked on my agents and agentic loops, helping me scale myself and my work as a product manager. This time my project is personal, and it starts with a question I could not stop turning over: when a camera watches the front of my house, who owns what it sees? ...

Stat cards: 116 local repos, 165 on GitHub, 113 logical projects, 3 duplicate clusters, and zero sources of truth becoming one

My Agents Left Me 116 Git Repos. So I Built a Source of Truth.

A few weeks ago I asked an agent to pick up work on one of my own projects. It opened a fresh terminal, looked around, found nothing it recognized, and built a brand new copy of a project I already had. That was not the agent being careless. Nothing on the machine had ever told it where the real one lived. The only map of my own work was a memory in my head, and a memory does not survive contact with a machine where agents do the building. ...