Engineer, travel aficionado, and public figure. But I'm really just here to meme.
Robert Howe
Mischief.
Announcing co/core: a social computing experiment from the Graze team
Boston, Somerville, Cambridge
And paired with it, a @leaflet.pub!
Just a wildly ambitious thing to build - so grateful to @hipstersmoothie.com, @rchowe.com, and @ngerakines.me in helping bring this thing out into the world finally. We wanted to get this out in December but the stars did not align - excited to hear what folks think here!
No Scotland, no party.
A client (who doesn't use Bluesky) sent me a "new" AI generated logo for their company today and asked me to put it on their creative. I had to rage-write a blog post about logo design to calm down.
The cool thing that makes co/core and darkbloom.dev (who wrote the paper on this topic) possible is that Apple ships secure enclave with every Mac.
Spirit airlines trading cards are about to become the hottest commodity for a certain subset of nerds.
Once you start seeing missing spaces in public web content due to how React formats line breaks, you can't stop seeing it.
co/core is a cooperative for AI inference — people pooling the Macs they already own to run open models for each other, instead of renting from the big clouds. An experiment in AI infrastructure we bu...