Final update on the shrimp. Software was mostly done, hardware design was ongoing, modeling parts, printing them, while figuring out how it would all fit together. Then I found a job, and at the same time learned I'd be a dad, again. I tried to focus getting shit done, while knowing I'd never have the time to finish, or at least get it in a working state. And the job took a lot of time, while I was also training a lot more, setting goals for myself like running non-stop for 30km (whic I reached september). I eventually took a week off to prepare the room for the baby and packed my whole "lab" into boxes for the basement.
Work had taken space.
The new kid too.
I built a strava-like run visualizer, shipped it as runviz.app, and then closed it.
I worked on an OpenClaw-like agent, PicoFang, leveraging whatever model I could run on my home-grade GC, a 16GB RX 7800XT. I gave it a ReAct loop, file and web tools, a skill or two, and got bored building it while developing the browser using tool. I may use hermes in the future, I like the iead of a local agent to help with a few tasks. I just don't have the drive to set my own up, given how little time there is for anything in life:
- wake up with a kid on your lap
- feed it
- clothe it up
- drive it to daycare
- come back make a coffee and you;re late for work
- work from 9 to 5 with a little lunch break to spend on the treadmill, trying to make some progress during winter
- by 5 you're late to get the kid from daycare
- 5 to 6 depends on the day, ranging from playing with kids to trying to get a workout in the home gym... with a 4yo and a 5mo around. Not ideal for beating PB but I'll take showing them a good example over anything else anytime.
- from 6 to 9 is the night routine vortex: make them eat, wash, read a book and fall asleep.
- by 9 the day's been a non-stop race to clear up what's on your plate before the next activity and you're washed up. I sometime gather a little motivation and code (runviz.app, picofang came up this way).