<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Udara Jay — Microblog]]></title><description><![CDATA[ideas, work and experiments]]></description><link>http://github.com/dylang/node-rss</link><generator>GatsbyJS</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:56:14 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[New Dawn Protocol]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two years into the game I've been working on– a living sandbox shaped by deep simulation and a world that renders and evolves around you.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20260728140700</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20260728140700</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kin]]></title><description><![CDATA[Best thing I did was build the family agent into its own phone with its own number. it can text, doordash, book the appointments...]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20260720150700</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20260720150700</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distill for iOS]]></title><description><![CDATA[A place to capture your thoughts, let agents do the organizing, and actually find things later. Learn more and try it at distill.id.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20260422150400</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20260422150400</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:56:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UNMS XP03]]></title><description><![CDATA[Excellent start to March with the latest iteration of our hardware going into production– designed to be beautiful inside and out.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20260301140300</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20260301140300</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiny Router]]></title><description><![CDATA[Open-sourcing tiny-router: a compact experimental multi-head text classification model for short, domain-neutral routing decisions.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20260228140200</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20260228140200</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UNMS brand]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has been a great pleasure to see the UNMS brand come together over the last few years. View the full brief at un.ms/brand]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20260220140200</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20260220140200</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prototypes inching forward]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hardware iteration always takes longer than you plan, but few things beat the feeling of physically holding what you designed in your hands.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20251120141100</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20251120141100</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What goes into an idea?]]></title><description><![CDATA[People often ask me about how I make things. Here's a little about the perspectives that went into some of our products at UNMS with the hope that it shows the process and thinking that happen before making something.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20250926150900</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20250926150900</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distill beta memo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quick walkthrough of the new Distill beta, sharing how I use it so you can get started yourself.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20250623150600</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20250623150600</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distill lists]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lists, threads and a few good agents are all you need 🌸.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20250602070600</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20250602070600</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:18:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect moments]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waiting for the "perfect moment" is how dreams retire. Start messy, start scared, but start now. The path reveals itself to the walker, not the watcher.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20250512170500</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20250512170500</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 21:41:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distill]]></title><description><![CDATA[Making it easy for anyone to build their own AI brain-trust ⚗️. You can learn more at .]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20250502130500</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20250502130500</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 17:41:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software renaissance]]></title><description><![CDATA[We're witnessing the renaissance of software craftsmanship. Feels like watching blacksmiths evolve into jewelry makers. Same core skills, wildly different output scale and precision. Small teams crafting beautiful things where armies once stood. The age of the digital artisan is here.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20250427140400</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20250427140400</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:57:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Signal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sharing some tools we built to build feedback loops in our products. Signal is the fastest, simplest way to collect and act on feedback. Access via signal.un.ms.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20250306050300</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20250306050300</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success]]></title><description><![CDATA[Success isn't climbing to the top of someone else's mountain. it's building your own path on terrain that calls to you.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20250228050200</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20250228050200</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simulator]]></title><description><![CDATA[Revived my game engine project to simulate a world for some AI colony experiments.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20241117151100</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20241117151100</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:22:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory inspector]]></title><description><![CDATA[A memory inspector for diagnosing the memory system of an AI agent modeled after a rudimentary brain. The points are mapped in space based on the relative relatedness based on the contents and properties of the memory.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20241021161000</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20241021161000</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:27:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[On software design]]></title><description><![CDATA[The goal of software should be to enhance our capabilities and make our lives easier, not to keep us perpetually engaged in a virtual world.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20240902150900</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20240902150900</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research app walkthrough]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quick walk-through of an early version of the research app for anyone looking for a new way to organize and read research papers. Learn more and get the beta at https://un.ms/research]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20240813210800</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20240813210800</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 01:50:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research]]></title><description><![CDATA[Making something with the goal of helping me cut the time and effort it takes to understand research papers by half.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20240418150400</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20240418150400</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 19:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[abstract]]></title><description><![CDATA[Finding the right level of abstraction is akin to finding the right tool for the job when it comes to navigating new ideas or problems.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20240314150300</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20240314150300</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stats]]></title><description><![CDATA[Finished a rewrite of my analytics server in rust and the whole thing runs on less than 10MB memory now.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20240225090200</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20240225090200</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2024 14:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exploring learning & AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Had a blast building a mobile app for learning with AI. A tree of knowledge is generated for you by AI and expanded as your explore by continuously diving deeper– allowing you to go as deep as you want, in any way that makes sense to you.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20240217140200</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20240217140200</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2024 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Videos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good to be making videos again 🎬]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20231230201200</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20231230201200</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2023 01:50:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[F1 lightbox]]></title><description><![CDATA[Made a display for a 1:43 scale model of an F1 RB16B. It uses a 64x32 RGB LED Matrix that goes through some track-like effects. Hoping to add some team signage and maybe display some stats on the display as well.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20231109181100</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20231109181100</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2023 23:50:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goals]]></title><description><![CDATA[It’s very important to have goals, and very specific goals. Always have goals, because to have goals you have to figure out what you want.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20231019131000</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20231019131000</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pile beta launch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Decided to share the beta for Pile a little ahead of schedule. You can download it today for macOS. Learn more.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20231013201000</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20231013201000</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Branding 00X]]></title><description><![CDATA[Always great fun to play around with brand marks– but oh the number of duck silhouettes I had to go through to settle on this. I wanted to create a mark that's recognizable yet a little different from your average duck silhouette.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20230924190900</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20230924190900</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2023 23:50:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad ideas]]></title><description><![CDATA[One way to avoid bad ideas in anything is to look for places where you’re stacking one too many assumptions to arrive at a conclusion.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20230829130800</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20230829130800</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bees 🐝]]></title><description><![CDATA[Getting a closer look at the bees in the garden. We moved them into a pot from a letter box many years ago and the hive's been going strong. They are also surprisingly friendly as long as you approach calmly.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20230805150800</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20230805150800</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2023 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ola-leaf books]]></title><description><![CDATA[Awed reading some of my great-grandfather's ayurvedic papyrus texts while I'm home. This is two of 400+ texts from the family dating back to 1848 donated to the university for research. This one specifically covers all things oils– the names don't translate so well, but the beauty one roughly translates to "ointment…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20230804160800</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20230804160800</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2023 20:19:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pile timeline]]></title><description><![CDATA[Added this scrubbable timeline for my journaling app: Pile. Was a perfect use-case for the Interscetion Observer API to make it work as you scroll.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20230722200700</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20230722200700</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personal logger]]></title><description><![CDATA[The lifestyle logger in my personal toolkit. Was pleasntly surprised how much this resonated with people.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20230716180700</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20230716180700</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 22:19:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Intro]]></title><description><![CDATA[Got this AI client to initiate conversations based on stuff I'm doing and it's quickly becoming a decent presence. It accesses data like temperature in the room, weather and past conversations for additional context via an API, entirely locally.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20230407150400</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20230407150400</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2023 19:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[WebGL Shaders]]></title><description><![CDATA[Playing around with WebGL shaders using Three.js. This one is made by augmenting a sin wave and some noise. I've shared the code if you want to play around with it yourself.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20230319040300</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20230319040300</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2023 08:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Realtime context for AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Connected some local IoT devices to my AI client for real-time context. Also learned that the Awair can host its own local API for sensor data.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20230318120300</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20230318120300</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2023 16:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Chat Client]]></title><description><![CDATA[Made this custom chat client for multiplayer chat with hosted and local generative models like ChatGPT, GPT4all and Dalle. 💬]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20230309130300</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20230309130300</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstraction ceiling]]></title><description><![CDATA[A lot of mental models are massive simplifications of complexity]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20230223140200</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20230223140200</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alternate reactions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Experimenting my way towards a new reaction system. Hoping for something that captures sentiment across a small range and having the distribution be obvious.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20230221060200</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20230221060200</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2023 11:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UNMS design]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trying out a new aesthetic for my monolith of a project. Exactly what it's for– tbd.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20230220140200</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20230220140200</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 19:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[_stats]]></title><description><![CDATA[Built a self-hosted, real-time, analytics dashboard with support for custom events and privacy preserving tracking. If you're looking for simple analytics software for a small–medium traffic website, _Stats could be the right fit for you.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20221230141200</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20221230141200</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2022 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Experimenting with something today– A live window of sorts into my workspace as the background of the homepage, let me know what you think or say hi on twitter. 👋 If you're curious how it works: I'm using a programmable chip (esp32) with a camera module that sends images to a Go microservice that handles sending the…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20221112171100</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20221112171100</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2022 22:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procedural game worlds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Experimenting with using perlin-noise to procedurally generate a 2D map to learn about game engines. This was on Phaser, but I've been diving into SDL and OpenGL to make a C++ game engine for a top down game like Rim World.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20220902200900</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20220902200900</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meow Wolf]]></title><description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to see the Convergence Station exhibit by Meow Wolf, it’s a four-story, immersive exhibit that brings to life four alien worlds. The sheer scale and creativity is breath taking, you could spend a whole day walking around and you’d still miss things. I highly recommend a visit, it's an experience…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20220710160700</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20220710160700</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2022 20:19:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[atm-gui]]></title><description><![CDATA[Made a graphical version of my personal logger. I've been using the CLI version for about two years, but it's a lot nicer with the ability to incorporate visualizations.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20220424150400</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20220424150400</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2022 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[HTTP/3]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was going to implement a simple HTTP/2 server for a project and came across the HTTP/3 spec. Neat that it's implemented over OUIC, a transport protocol implemented over UDP instead of TCP.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20220402180400</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20220402180400</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2022 22:19:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[New site!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Added a few new features and cleaned up some of the content to make it easier for me to publish more frequently and build up a sustainable, inter-connected knowledgebase of sorts.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20220331180300</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20220331180300</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2022 22:19:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Webmentions should be more popular]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wish the webmentions protocol was more widely adopted. It's such a neat concept for syndication. Hoping to implement it for this site soon.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/microblog/20220330160300</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/microblog/20220330160300</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2022 20:12:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>