Newsletter : Issue #61
Some Cool Tools
Happy Sunday! Welcome to the 61st edition of my weekly newsletter.
Here are a few things I discovered, read, and watched this week.
Tools
LM Studio AI Desktop app for running open-source LLMs locally with full privacy — no cloud required.Open WebUI Self-hosted open-source UI to run and manage multiple AI models (local or cloud) from one interface.
CanIRun.ai Browser-based hardware checker to find which local AI models your machine can run.
Claude Design AI-powered visual creation tool for generating prototypes, slides, and one-pagers via conversation.
OpenCode Open-source terminal-first AI coding agent for writing, debugging, and refactoring code via natural language.
qmd Local-first CLI search engine for docs, notes, and knowledge bases — fully offline with MCP support.
Read
“Faith in science and reason, yes—but more than that. Faith in creation itself. Silicon Valley is a religious movement. Its central doctrine: no force in history has done more to improve human life than technology, and no institution is better positioned to build it for scale than the company. Not the state. Not the church. Not the NGO. The company, deploying scalable technology, is the primary modern instrument of human progress. Technology represents roughly a tenth of the U.S. economy and has driven a third of its growth over the last decade—and that’s before counting every other industry it now powers.”
Watched
John Doerr: Ideas are easy, execution is everything.
“This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can … reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that’s what I mean by ‘Hallelujah. “
- Leonard Cohen