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

January 5, 2021

What I Use Now Instead Of Google

I made a goal for myself in January 2020 to stop using Google products by the end of the year. That might sound like way too generous a timeline, but Google owned pretty much all of my data at that point, so it was a fairly large project. Plus I'm a slow and steady kind of person. I know if I give myself a generous enough timeline I can accomplish even things that seem too hard for me at first. […12 min read]

post#nextcloud#privacy#self-hosting#ungoogle

December 19, 2020

How to set up your own nextcloud server

One of my goals for 2020 was to stop using Google's products. There are a lot of reasons why, but that's not the point of this post. I found out about Nextcloud last month and it turns out it's a great replacement for a lot of Google. I don't actually use all of its features, but I've migrated my calendar, reminders, contacts, bookmarks, video calls, photos, and news feeds and I'm really happy with it so far. […12 min read]

post#nextcloud#self-hosting#ungoogle