Do any of the apps support taking actions as you talk without having to hit stop?

Like telling it to edit the text or remove a word.

Would also like to know how it compares to https://github.com/openwhispr/openwhispr

I like that openwhisper lets me do on device and set a remote provider.

I had been using Hidden Bar but gonna give Thaw a shot now. Looks a bit more full featured and under active development!

https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

This is pretty because Grist can react to changes in your data automatically, sending emails or firing webhooks. I only recently learned about grist and have been playing with it a bit in the hosted version. Thinking of adding it to my list of applications to run soon. Do people prefer something else?

Seems like something DOGE should have tackled early if they actually cared about making the government effecient. I guess making the lives of the disabled easier isn't flashy enough.

DOGE was meant to do the opposite

A paper came out about this recently: The City as an Anti- Growth Machine.

> Logan and Molotch's “urban growth machine” remains foundational in urban theory, describing how coalitions of landowners, developers, and politicians promote urban growth to raise land values. This paper argues that under financialized capitalism, the dynamics have inverted: asset appreciation now outweighs productive investment, and urban land is increasingly treated as a speculative asset.

https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70145

Likely the same for public schools and maybe universities. Having educated folks in your city increases productivity and revenues and incomes.

Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time transitioning from tech into urbanism and working on a few projects I care deeply about.

- Urbanism Now - I run https://urbanismnow.com, a weekly newsletter highlighting positive urbanism stories from around the world. It’s been exciting to see it grow and build an audience. I'm thinking of adding a jobs board soon that'll be built in astro.

- Open Library - I’ve been helping the Internet Archive migrate Open Library from web.py to FastAPI, improving performance and making the codebase easier for new contributors to work with.

- Publishing project - I’m also working on a book with Lab of Thought as the publisher, which has been a great opportunity to spend more time working with Typst.

These projects sit at the intersection of technology, cities, and knowledge sharing, exactly where I’m hoping to focus more of my time going forward.

Kinda related, does anyone have a favorite obsidian plugin for AI editing on mobile?

I wanna be able to talk to a document and iterate on it just like chatgpt with canvas but inside obsidian.

I've been digging around and haven't quite found anything to do that.

One potential challenge is I'm not sure how easy it would be to let it do tool calling to edit the document rather than spitting out the whole document each time (with risk of minor changes).

I've tried a bunch of them only to settle on using Claude Code with remote control.

fyi the typepad link in your bio is broken