Mike

What's being discussed in Canadian municipalities TODAY? civic-lens.ca/today

That's what was missing a year ago when I started to build seaquel.app. I really wanted to use GPUI over Tauri, but it didn't feel like the right choice given Zed's announcement around that time. Things are different today.

A product song, anyone? Let it Ring ☎️! suno.com/s/lgyMGhqoeq...

As if I hadn't had enough reasons to homeschool...

Giving your LLMs read-only access to all production systems / services is such a game-changer. I may be late to that game, but I'm glad I joined 😂.

This right here is how you write interactive documentation! Beautifully done!

I need to generate some promotional videos, 15-30 seconds long. What do people use these days?

Make sure you read your agent's design and implementation docs. It's your only time to understand what happens since code reviews are done by AI as well, at least for me they are. Agents also generate a lot of crap, so correct them before the start the implementation.

199 downloads of seaquel.app today... nothing obvious in the logs as to where these people came from though. Enjoy your shiny new data management app.

It's been a while since I was deep in performance tuning for a project... Getting LLM response times from ~800ms to below 500ms is on today's agenda. It's for an AI receptionist for businesses who can't afford to miss phone calls.

✅ This thing now has AT Proto OAuth and I've successfully signed in with my Bluesky account! ✅ Created a new repo and imported a GitHub repo ✅ Ran 3 AI agents as a bake-off to propose a new feature ✅ A review agent checked each submission & picked one ✅ I reviewed the winner and opened a PR

Any small business owners around here? Good old QuickBooks decided to increase their annual subscription by 31.5% 😂. What are the alternatives people actually use? Is AI ready to build me what I need lol?!

I built something like that for a client earlier this year based on their requirements. Now, I'm building it with the developer experience I want. Two tasks before I can share a link: • Deploy to prod • Allow developers to run local nodes and use the hosted web UI brb 😅

Cloudflare asking for the next GitHub and bsky.app/profile/dani... was exactly the motivation I needed. Requirements: • A node is a single binary • Agents can work locally or distributed • ATProto for social / auth • Agents have their own identity • Provenance everywhere claude.ai/artifact/GR6...

Every so often when I meet someone new and they learn I grew up speaking German, they remind me of this commercial. youtu.be/xacdDrylrek?...

I was laid off once in my career, for speaking up against using Deno and its security model 😂. Funny how things changed so quickly given today's end-of-life announcement. There's always Node.js 😅.

Fair enough, I should have seen this coming... Hand-crafting the code it is.

A bit of early morning @seaquel.app testing a day keeps the doctor away. I'm quickly moving towards the next phase where companies can have zero trust installations. Credentials are in a vault, Seaquel users and AI agents never see them 🔐.

This is big, like "Oh my what is happening" kind of big!

This happened last night. When I woke up, I had DMs in Slack, messages on LinkedIn and emails. My takeaway? Canadian digital sovereignty matters to people. I'm working on a blog post to put my thoughts into words on how Canadian 🇨🇦 municipalities can decouple themselves from US 🇺🇸 ownership.

With plenty of planning, experience, and tests, you can do a two week major refactoring, ship a beta release and things just work. 2026.10.0-beta.1 is now available. Starting with that version, an Beta update channel is available for the people who only live once 😅. seaquel.app/download/beta

How do you migrate a @tauri.app app's Typescript code to Rust so it can be shared with a CLI, TUI, and MCP server? Step 1: Generate 500k lines of fixtures code Step 2: Migrate & write tests Step 3: Delete 500k lines of fixtures code

And the seaquel.app desktop client is now refactored to use plugins as well. For people with existing @duckdb.org connections, the DuckDB plugin is downloaded automatically on app startup after the next update. For anyone adding their first DuckDB connection, a dialog confirms the plugin download.

This was quite the IDE back in the days 💪. I was 14 years old when I used it to develop a farm management software for my uncle. Over the next two years, it turned into a full suite of modules. Too bad I didn't have the entrepreneurial spirit at that time 😅. wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/

The problem with calling it Artificial Intelligence wasn't the first word 😂.

Someone who uses the @seaquel.app TUI for Postgres shouldn't have to download ~11mb for @duckdb.org support. DuckDB is the first plugin 🎉. Now I'm going to rip it all apart so Seaquel interfaces (desktop, CLI, TUI, web) are bare minimum, then download plugins on demand.

After a week of using Codex, it is clear their TUI is a few months behind Claude Code's TUI. It feels amateur and has features Claude Code had earlier this year. That was $25 well spent to know my money is better spent with Anthropic :).

I'm approaching the end of an almost two week Typescript to Rust @tauri.app migration and the results are even better than I anticipated. @seaquel.app queries are 20x faster and memory consumption has equally improved. Everything other than UI now happens in Rust, shared with CLI, TUI, MCP server.

This is going to be the first public presentation about civic-lens.ca. Why? How? What's next? • Tens of thousands of PDFs processed • Hundreds of multi-hour videos transcribed • A handful of paying companies and dozens of individuals who set up email alerts It'll be recorded, but join live for Q&A

Has anyone used @tauri.app to build Android and iOS native apps? Any examples I could install and look at? The impression I get is people have mixed experiences and support for native apps is meh at best. Maybe that's outdated info though 🤔?!

@seaquel.app is about to become a library with various interfaces. The desktop app is what people already use. A CLI, MCP server and TUI exist locally. The beauty of a small core that orchestrates plugins 🥰. Here's an interactive TUI to explore. claude.ai/artifact/Ndb...

Electron is for desktop apps what React is for web apps.

Try Codex, they say. It's fun, they say.

This looks fun for onboarding tours or in-app hints when a user presses the ⌘ key. neat-annotations.syabro.com

What do you think? It's v0.0.1 after a single prompt last night, this was the result when I woke up. seaquel.app

This is huge, IMHO! Wasm components will help Wasm reach more developers. I used it extensively server-side a couple of months ago for a n8n-style platform that executed code on devices, in the cloud, or self-hosted. All sorts of programming languages compiled to Wasm components.

At which point does the situation become possible 🤔?!

If you like @raycast.com, but prefer an open source version, there's tinycast.dev 🥰.

The same question, two answers. One correct, one wrong. First screenshot, AI claims it read data from the official website: wrong numbers. Second screenshot, AI read data from civic-lens.ca: correct numbers. All source badges in the first answer link to 404 Not Found city pages!

Is anyone in Toronto on October 6 and wants to meet up? I'll present civic-lens.ca at the Civic Tech Toronto meetup and have the entire day available.

My take on the use of AI for Tuxedo (1.7k ⭐). AI-generated, bloated issue and PR descriptions are the second worst thing you can use AI for. The worst is personal / business communication via email. github.com/webstonehq/t...

FYI, Ubuntu has worked just fine for years and continues to do so today.