Tyler Gaw is a Designer & Engineer in New York City, USA
A personal website. Since 2006
Last month, I wrote about starting a business. In that post, I mentioned the first product I was building was an iOS app for collage. That app is called Pezzos. It’s a fun way to make, share, and explore digital collages. It’ll be available sooner than later. When Can I Use It? I’m racing to get the app ready for first users as soon as possible. As long as nothing goes too sideways and I can keep myself on task, I’ll start inviting people to a limited pre-release build a
These are a few things I enjoyed recently. Maybe you’ll enjoy them too. Personal Business A wonderfully well-written reminder that not everything needs to scale. Not everything needs to be automated to the nth degree. Doing things slowly, by hand, for niche groups of people is always an option. “Personal Business” by Charles Broskoski on Are.na. …how is a tiny software company supposed to compete with huge and well-funded companies? The answer is that you don’t really have to. You just have to
As the title suggests, I tried to switch a project from the OpenAI API to a local LLM running in Ollama, but wasn’t able to make it work due to slowness. It was a fun exercise though. This is what I tried and what I learned. Discogs is where I track my record collection. Wax is a nice UI for it that I’ve been noodling on for years. I built a small ETL for it. It uses the OpenAI API to extract human and machine-readable color, texture, and pattern data out of raw—user-provided—descriptions
