Joshua Crowley
@joshuacrowley.com
https://joshuacrowley.com/ – Software Designer. Builds lots of prototypes, mostly web. Sometimes games. Nintendo & Apple tragic. He/him.
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Joshua Crowley
@joshuacrowley.com
· Nov 20
I'm building tinytalkingtodos.com a family voice assistant. My partner and I are constantly planning our week on the go. What's for dinner, who's doing pickup? Talkies captures our convos, photos and urls into todos. Talkies creates custom lists, so we always have an answer for "What's next"?
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"fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit" is a phrase that makes me feel like maybe i've passed away and all the news i read is all just the final neurons in my brain racing around making haphazard connections in the moments before darkness
As part of the red-carpet treatment, Saudi officials arranged for a fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit to accompany President Trump during his stay.
According to local reports, the unit was set up near the Saudi Royal Court.
According to local reports, the unit was set up near the Saudi Royal Court.
May 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit" is a phrase that makes me feel like maybe i've passed away and all the news i read is all just the final neurons in my brain racing around making haphazard connections in the moments before darkness
Hi @jesseyuen.bsky.social added you to this handy starter pack, hope that's okay -> go.bsky.app/GXihHDK
February 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Hi @jesseyuen.bsky.social added you to this handy starter pack, hope that's okay -> go.bsky.app/GXihHDK
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ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos
ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos
ChatGPT just got a new automation feature for future tasks.
buff.ly
January 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos
Multimodal models like Flash 2.0 and GPT4o can use audio tokens to natively reason over audio input. Neither can yet provide text and audio tokens that come from the same inference pass, and presumably wont ever. So that presents a flaw in these models no one seems to be discussing.
January 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Multimodal models like Flash 2.0 and GPT4o can use audio tokens to natively reason over audio input. Neither can yet provide text and audio tokens that come from the same inference pass, and presumably wont ever. So that presents a flaw in these models no one seems to be discussing.
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I don’t know what agentic ai really means for users. I can see how an immediate barrier for deeper LLM experiences is access to user data. So will agents just be for integrating your service into a user’s auth/cloud/filesystem? a crutch for interoperability?
December 30, 2024 at 9:07 AM
I don’t know what agentic ai really means for users. I can see how an immediate barrier for deeper LLM experiences is access to user data. So will agents just be for integrating your service into a user’s auth/cloud/filesystem? a crutch for interoperability?
Collaboratively plan all your last minute Christmas todos with your significant other and tinytalkingtodos.com. It's a local-first voice assistant with a focus on privacy and families.
December 24, 2024 at 6:17 AM
Collaboratively plan all your last minute Christmas todos with your significant other and tinytalkingtodos.com. It's a local-first voice assistant with a focus on privacy and families.
Gemini's Flash 2.0 is great, a true multimodal model I've been waiting for. Just finished upgrading TTT to use the new websocket live api today, just in time for Christmas. Here's a demo of tool callings and it's audio understanding.
vimeo.com/1041500694
vimeo.com/1041500694
Tiny Talking Todos
Perfect way to coordinate your christmas todos
vimeo.com
December 22, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Gemini's Flash 2.0 is great, a true multimodal model I've been waiting for. Just finished upgrading TTT to use the new websocket live api today, just in time for Christmas. Here's a demo of tool callings and it's audio understanding.
vimeo.com/1041500694
vimeo.com/1041500694
I’ll be trying Gemini 2 for code gen soon in my app, specifically to test its visual understanding. I’ve been pretty happy Claude Sonnet 3.5, especially because my current workflow is just to one shot via the users prompt. But excited to see where multiple fast iterations on a workflow gets us.
December 22, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I’ll be trying Gemini 2 for code gen soon in my app, specifically to test its visual understanding. I’ve been pretty happy Claude Sonnet 3.5, especially because my current workflow is just to one shot via the users prompt. But excited to see where multiple fast iterations on a workflow gets us.
One nice quality of building an assistant app is you can just ask for mock data to test your features, as you build them. "Can you try and delete a todo with a fake id".
December 18, 2024 at 11:44 PM
One nice quality of building an assistant app is you can just ask for mock data to test your features, as you build them. "Can you try and delete a todo with a fake id".
MCP has a page explaining how to best configure your LLM so it can pair with you on building out your implementation. First time I’ve seen this for an open source project.
Building MCP with LLMs - Model Context Protocol
Speed up your MCP development using LLMs such as Claude!
modelcontextprotocol.io
December 15, 2024 at 9:59 PM
MCP has a page explaining how to best configure your LLM so it can pair with you on building out your implementation. First time I’ve seen this for an open source project.
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the todo app that... does
are you getting it
are you getting it
December 13, 2024 at 8:10 PM
the todo app that... does
are you getting it
are you getting it
Here's a dev talk I gave on building voice agents in the browser at SydJS. In the talk I try and breakdown the different services you might use, and show how users can BYO keys, for a client based approach. I also demo using OpenAI's realtime websocket approach.
Joshua Crowley - Tiny Talking ToDos
YouTube video by SydJS
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December 13, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Here's a dev talk I gave on building voice agents in the browser at SydJS. In the talk I try and breakdown the different services you might use, and show how users can BYO keys, for a client based approach. I also demo using OpenAI's realtime websocket approach.
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Clio is Anthropic's new system for identifying AI risks that it hadn't thought to look for — what it calls the unknown unknowns. I talked with team that built it and share for the first time the top three ways people use Claude www.platformer.news/how-claude-u...
December 12, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Clio is Anthropic's new system for identifying AI risks that it hadn't thought to look for — what it calls the unknown unknowns. I talked with team that built it and share for the first time the top three ways people use Claude www.platformer.news/how-claude-u...
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This is a neat new variant on RAG - no vectors, not even full-text search, instead showing the model a header hierarchy and giving it a tool to read the relevant sections
My notes here: simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/6/r...
My notes here: simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/6/r...
December 6, 2024 at 3:04 AM
This is a neat new variant on RAG - no vectors, not even full-text search, instead showing the model a header hierarchy and giving it a tool to read the relevant sections
My notes here: simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/6/r...
My notes here: simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/6/r...
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We beat Super Mario Wonder! My daughter and I have been chipping away, and I'm so impressed w/ how good she got. There's a lot of coordination, pattern recognition, problem solving, and strategy involved, and it's been REALLY cool to really see her achieve mastery. These skills will serve her well.
December 5, 2024 at 2:56 AM
We beat Super Mario Wonder! My daughter and I have been chipping away, and I'm so impressed w/ how good she got. There's a lot of coordination, pattern recognition, problem solving, and strategy involved, and it's been REALLY cool to really see her achieve mastery. These skills will serve her well.
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Pentametron was one of the great web art projects, retweeting couplets of accidentally iambic tweets. Thanks to Bluesky's open feed, I have resurrected the concept..
Behold @iambic.bot!
Behold @iambic.bot!
November 30, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Pentametron was one of the great web art projects, retweeting couplets of accidentally iambic tweets. Thanks to Bluesky's open feed, I have resurrected the concept..
Behold @iambic.bot!
Behold @iambic.bot!
Is there any up to date advice on tool call responses? Seems like a powerful concept, but unclear how to approach it. Atm I have acknowledgment, action_summary, result and next_steps properties – though I can't recall where I found this props.
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November 24, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Is there any up to date advice on tool call responses? Seems like a powerful concept, but unclear how to approach it. Atm I have acknowledgment, action_summary, result and next_steps properties – though I can't recall where I found this props.
I'm building tinytalkingtodos.com a family voice assistant. My partner and I are constantly planning our week on the go. What's for dinner, who's doing pickup? Talkies captures our convos, photos and urls into todos. Talkies creates custom lists, so we always have an answer for "What's next"?
November 20, 2024 at 2:46 AM
I'm building tinytalkingtodos.com a family voice assistant. My partner and I are constantly planning our week on the go. What's for dinner, who's doing pickup? Talkies captures our convos, photos and urls into todos. Talkies creates custom lists, so we always have an answer for "What's next"?
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