Poiesic Systems

Recently I had a need to interact with a LLM from a throwaway shell script. Initially I went the easy route of shelling out to claude -p to solve my problem. Problem solved, script done, and I moved on to my next task.

Something in my brain, nestled next to the part that loves the ideas behind the Plan 9 operating system, kept spinning on the idea. Having successfully nerd-sniped myself I did what any self-respecting programmer would do. I built a FUSE filesystem that makes interacting with large language models as easy as interacting with files.

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Lately I’ve been taking some time to focus on creative hobbies. Somewhere along the way they got shoved to the margins to make way for work and life. I want to correct that. One of my favorite creative hobbies is writing fiction. For the longest time I used Scrivener but it never became second nature. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an amazing product and works well for a lot of people. It just missed the mark for me.

So I wrote nib. I’ve used it to write a 90k word rough draft of a novel, fixing bugs and adding features as I’ve needed them. And now I’d like to share it.

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