GenAI on Fresh/Brewed

Browser Use

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

I had a bookmark (not sure where I saw it) for Browser Use. It’s a geared for agentic work, of course, but the idea is ephemeral and scheduled web browser related flows that are easy to script with NodeJS or python.

It has a free tier so there is no reason not to give it a go and see what it can do.

Setup

We can signup here with username/password or a federated IdP. I’ll do the latter with google

Creating and using AI Skills

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

I’ve had AI Skills on the mind lately and realized I had neglected updating a few of my own and it was high time to handle that.

In this article we’ll cover installing and using some common public skills, like Anthropic’s skills and specifically their “skill creator” skill. We’ll use that in Google Antigravity and Copilot to cleanup an older Python App skill I have.

We’ll then test using the Python App skill in Cline, a local CLI Harness with a 12b gemma4 model running in Ollama on a laptop with a 12Gb 3070 card in it.

Nextchat Librechat and Mistral AI

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

I had a couple of sites bookmarked to circle back on: Nextchat.club and LibreChat. I’m not certain what they really are, just that they were on an AI startup leader board recently.

The other AI offering I haven’t visited in some time is Mistral. I liked the early Mistral models for coding. I also like that it’s based in France.

Nextchat.club

We can sign-up at nextchat.club/login:

in the Application area we can pick a persona. Here I’ll pick a resume writer

A 1980s Airline Repair guide may be a cure for AI Slop

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

In the last few days I’ve been rather fixated on this YouTube video called “The cure for AI slop is a 1986 aircraft manual”. If you like more of a narrative, pause here and watch the video.

First, a bit of context…

Simplified Technical English has its starts going all the way back to the 1930s with “Basic English” and later the 1970s with CFE, Caterpillar Technical English and Kodak International Service Language (KISL). Per the CFE documentation:

Antigravity Status Lines

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

I was recently working in Antigravity trying to fix some stylesheets when I hit my AI Pro limit:

That hadn’t happened to me until today (and I bounced over to Github Copilot to finish the task), but the situation reminded me of a project I had bookmarked some time back, Agy Statusline

And once I started setting up status lines, it sparked me to look at a few more options. In this post we’ll actually explore five different status line offerings from a variety of developers.

Herdr and Hunk

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Herdr is an interesting project that I noted initially as a TMUX variant, but really is much much more. It’s designed to ‘herd’ your long running LLM agents to make it much easier to dance between sessions. I’m not a AI Agent gangsta like I know some are, but I do like to mutli-task over a lot of windows and wanted to give it a good try.

Another tool on my list is a command line Diff viewer, Hunk. I saw Hunk used in a YT video and thought it looked pretty slick. We’ll check that out as well.

Auth0 and Ornith 9b

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Two things I want to tackle today. The first is testing out Auth0 which is a well established Federated IdP provider. However, I really haven’t looked at it in years. No reason for that, just my needs are generally met by just one ore two IdPs which are easy enough to setup.

The other area I want to explore is the new Ornith:9b LLM model. It’s supposedly self-improving. That said… I have concerns… such as their announcement text has multiple misspelled words (not a good sign)

Small OS: Notediscovery (with MCP) and Lockstep

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Today we’ll take a look at NoteDiscovery, a very interesting Markdown tool that is more geared towards Knowledge management for GenAI then for documentation (Like Docussaurus and the like). We will look at using it in docker and it’s MCP server. Could we make our own self-hosted chatbot system?

We will also look at Lockstep, a security auditing tool that helps people focus on best practices and compliance.

NoteDiscovery

Let’s take a look at NoteDiscovery which I saw in this Marius post a while back.

AI Code Reviews with Ollama

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

In recent times I have been looking closely into AI Code Reviews using tools like Github Copilot, which consumes my tokens and uses Azure/Microsoft resources. I have also looked at offerings from Qodo as well as CodeRabbit.

All these SaaS tool suites are great, no doubt, but they all cost money. I got to thinking, could I not accomplish the same thing locally?

Setup

I’ll want to use an Ollama host in my network.

Zed Editor

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

I had a note to circle back on Zed. I had looked nearly a year go in August 2025 at their preview feature for AI. At the time, Windows wasn’t there (only via Scoop). I also was far more tied to VS Code so I wasn’t really looking at Zed as a possible replacement.

Times have changed, and Zed has advanced quite a lot. So let’s give it another go and this time I’ll be looking at it as a real possible replacement for VS Code (especially as my primary machines are all now Linux based).