Wow. Jon Pretty is a far better person than I ever could be. Despite the damage caused by false allegations, he’s generous with his understanding of those complicit. 🫡

martin_casado This is my favorite “get off my lawn” quote of all time

I guess Einstein didn't fully quite get Quantum Theory either.

Convex is announcing support for the upcoming Svelte 5 release. Convex is a BaaS that lets you write your backend in pure TS/JS, curated to make developing your product alongside your persistence seamless. Check out Convex to learn more.

Team!

Show off your cool open-source AI projects? (bonus if local & private)

Let's make this thread happen!!! Reply below with your project. 🧵

Let's go open-source!

Seriously. What the actual f*ck.

Elon and Zuck are both pro-open source. Elon co-founded OpenAI ffs

smh 😤

Support the open-source community so little tech can grow!

Help Ollama & Friends!

github.com/ollama/ollama

martin_casado Help little tech!

Any open-source AI grants to help the little tech? 😍

The browsers wars weren't about the browser. They were about the access layer to the Internet.

The AI trust and safety wars are not about trust and safety ..

Set up.

(Fei-Fei Li)

Yep.

Incredibly painful to see OpenAI/Anthropic supporting licensing and auditing schemes that are functionally indistinguishable from managerial authoritarianism.

Little tech really needs to get a lot more aggressive against big tech. They're going for full control right now.

Almost no representation from startups, or open source except Fei-Fei Li.

Do us proud Fei Fei. You're our only hope!

As big fans of Resend, we've been excited to see the Convex + Resend stack start popping up recently for email scheduling.

WebDevCody shows a really practical example of putting it into action here.

youtu.be/lmpf5Xns8K0?si…

Local only AI town is ready w/ ollama Together AI and Convex!

Run an AI Town locally, powered by llama3 🎉

No cloud signups needed. Make your own world, and then talk to it :)

Runs the open-source Convex backend locally.
Use ollama locally or Together AI for cloud LLM. AI Town

Amazing work!!

Ian has updated AI Town to run fully locally. This is the most request feature by a large margin.

Beyond being a great simulation environment, this is an amazing stack if you want to build an game using a large number of interacting AIs.

Fully-local AI Town!

AI Town is a virtual town where characters live and interact. It has wonderful visuals, is highly customizable, and can now run entirely on your local machine!

Really enjoying playing with udio

udio.com