Kira Howe

October 20263 entries

2 posts/1 release

October 15, 2026

slk 0.29.0

I've been having issues lately with my machine running out of RAM because of too many agents doing too many things at once. I know I know I need to get on the cloud-agent bandwagon, I'm working on it, but in the meantime I have become very productive with a dozen or so claude sessions running locally all the time. Anyway all that to say, I have started to pay a lot more attention to what is using up all my RAM because I ran out for the first time the other day. The desktop slack app is a pretty bad offender, regularly consuming 1-2GB of RAM, so I went looking for lighter-weight alternatives (since I need to have it running for work, and hate the experience of using it in a browser) and found this awesome slack TUI. […5 min read]

release#developer-workflow#forking#open-source#productivity#slack#slk#tools#tui

October 7, 2026

A useful personal agent

I started building a useful personal agent. What makes it useful is that it runs on my computer, but this immediately raises concerns about data exfiltration. I use Apple reminders (among other things) to organise my life so I had it write a little script to be able to interact with those, which works great. One of the main things I want help with is getting a handle on my chaotic piles of todos. They are scattered all over the place and all mixed up. Part of the problem with my current system is that aspirational things are mixed up with hard deadlines, so on busy or unpredictable weeks things that aren’t essential just pile up and stay there and then the “today” list just keeps rolling everything over until there are dozens of things on it, which I couldn’t possibly get done in a single day if I tried. And then I’m just mentally keeping tabs on what is actually important or on a real deadline, which defeats the purpose of the system. […2 min read]

post#ai#ai-agents#ai-assistants#data-security#lethal-trifecta#llms#parenting#personal-agents#personal-knowledge-management#privacy#productivity

October 6, 2026

What would a useful agent be like?

I use coding agents for basically all of my day day to work now. Recently I’ve been seeing more and more consumer-facing agent-like products and have been trying them out but find none are really able to do the things I want, mostly because they are all run by sketchy tech megacorps that I don’t trust and don’t want to connect my data to. Unfortunately Siri still really sucks, but in theory it’s more in the realm of what I actually want and Apple already owns my entire digital life anyway. […3 min read]

post#agent-driven-development#ai-agents#digital-assistants#llms#personal-agents#personal-knowledge-management#productivity#self-hosting