Slightly Caffeinated

Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller walk through TJ's laptop locking up past safe mode, how Claude helped him rescue his work over a shared disk, and the agent state he forgot to save. They also cover Chris's Rig beta at work, off-site backups, and dotfiles, sharing insights on what to protect when your tools keep state for you. Links Ask a question or suggest a topic Podcast: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky Chris: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky TJ: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky References Mentioned LocalStack - how Rig runs one local DynamoDB instance with a table per service Novelhood - Chris's book club app, one of the side projects waiting on usage resets Halcyon - TJ's notes app, where Fable 5.1 as the Hive lead turned the sync build around OpenCode - TJ's idea for running GPT models with a rule file extension Pi - one of the harnesses Chris named as a base for a Rula engineering harness Purity Coffee Sacred Cups Star Coffee - the honey processed Starday bag Chris finished Bear - where TJ was writing therapy homework when the laptop froze Prism - one of the repos TJ rescued off the frozen disk Sonari - TJ's transcription app, rescued with its in-progress worktrees Dotbot - how TJ rebuilt his machine in 45 minutes and keeps work and personal setups in sync Homebrew - what Dotbot reinstalls on a fresh machine Setapp - part of TJ's rebuild script Backblaze - Chris's off-site backup instead of Time Machine Skate - Charm's encrypted key value store TJ uses to keep secrets out of his dotfiles PHP Tek - TJ's first 2027 talk submission Laracon US - TJ will be there and might submit Laracon AU - TJ's top speaking goal for the year

TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr talk through Novelhood, the book club app Chris is building with his wife, and how stacking design skills got him to a version that works for readers from 20 to 80. TJ shares where Sonari stands ahead of launch, including a listener DM that has him chasing custom speech models for people with speech impediments, exploring what accessible AI tooling could look like. Links Ask a question or suggest a topic Podcast: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky Chris: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky TJ: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky References Mentioned Purity Coffee Sacred Cups Star Coffee - the honey processed Starday bag with the galaxy packaging North Meet South 199 - the crossover episode on vetting vibe-coded contributions Lovable - what Zillow hands to non-technical people for prototyping Novelhood - Chris's book club management app, wait list open Open Library - the book data behind Novelhood's title search Bookshop.org - the planned way for clubs to send book sales to a local bookstore Sonari - TJ's local-only Mac transcription app Halcyon - TJ's markdown notes app, built on Tauri Tauri - the framework TJ recommends over raw Swift for Mac apps Sparkle - the update framework TJ is wiring into Sonari Polar license keys - how TJ plans to handle Sonari licensing WhisperKit - the on-device models TJ would fine-tune for speech impediments

Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller dig into Anthropic's expiring 50% usage bump, why both of them swapped their Hive lead from Opus to Fable, and Chris's work bringing Codex into Hive as a first-class harness. TJ shares a week-long unattended build of Halcyon's git-style sync engine, sharing insights on where agent orchestration is actually paying off. Ask a question, suggest a topic https://slightlycaffeinated.fm/ask-a-question Podcast https://slightlycaffeinated.fm https://bsky.app/profile/slightlycaffeinated.fm https://x.com/slightlycaffpod Chris https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgmyr.dev https://x.com/cmgmyr https://chrisgmyr.dev TJ https://bsky.app/profile/tjmiller.bsky.social https://x.com/heytjmiller https://www.tjmiller.me References Mentioned https://www.halcyonnotes.com/ https://opencode.ai/ https://openclaw.ai/

TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr dig into Hive, the tmux-based agent orchestration tool Chris built to replace Solo, from profiles and runbooks to the optional dashboard. They also cover TJ's Halcyon notes app, his new local dictation app Sonari, and the app store compliance maze, sharing insights on turning side projects into real products. Ask a question, suggest a topic https://slightlycaffeinated.fm/ask-a-question Podcast https://slightlycaffeinated.fm https://bsky.app/profile/slightlycaffeinated.fm https://x.com/slightlycaffpod Chris https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgmyr.dev https://x.com/cmgmyr https://chrisgmyr.dev TJ https://bsky.app/profile/tjmiller.bsky.social https://x.com/heytjmiller https://www.tjmiller.me References Mentioned https://x.com/samsappenfield1 https://x.com/abbygilson28/status/2089384180597817553 https://soloterm.com/ https://www.halcyonnotes.com/ https://www.sonari.audio/

Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller recap Laracon Boston, from the talks and the community response to TJ's post about stepping away, to Laravel Cloud expanding beyond PHP. They also get into the native markdown note-taking app TJ started building with Tauri and React, sharing insights on picking a stack, pricing a first product, and working at the edge of your experience. Ask a question, suggest a topic https://slightlycaffeinated.fm/ask-a-question Podcast https://slightlycaffeinated.fm https://bsky.app/profile/slightlycaffeinated.fm https://x.com/slightlycaffpod Chris https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgmyr.dev https://x.com/cmgmyr https://chrisgmyr.dev TJ https://bsky.app/profile/tjmiller.bsky.social https://x.com/heytjmiller https://www.tjmiller.me References Mentioned https://www.enderlycoffee.com/product/brazil https://mostlytechnical.com/ https://www.tjmiller.me/posts/where-ive-been/ https://laracon.us/ https://www.halcyonnotes.com