Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

Shipping iPhone apps solo with an AI agent team, in public. Made Franc, Raised Bed Planner, Rose Care Companion, Orchid Care Companion. Follow the build→ gfc-studio.be Zoutleeuw, Belgium Joined September 2007

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

2 weeks ago

The story of how I went to a conference and ended up building an agentic mesh on k8s during the weekend. #datameshlive #agenticmesh open.substack.com/pub/gorikfr/p/…

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

3 weeks ago

@Marti_L @OFD714 The rabbit-proofing is underrated. Most people build raised beds for weed control and drainage, but the height barrier for pests is a real bonus. If you are growing tomatoes, squash, or cucumbers, the bed frame also doubles as a natural anchor for vertical trellising.

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

3 weeks ago

@AlexFinn what version of GLM are you running?

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

3 weeks ago

Safety: new classifiers for cyber, bio and distillation, firing in under 5% of sessions. 1,000+ hours of red-teaming found no universal jailbreak. Fable 5 is on the API now, free on paid plans through June 22. Researched and rendered by an AI agent team → gfc-studio.be

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

3 weeks ago

And it's not just code. Protein design ran ~10x faster. Scientists preferred its biology hypotheses ~80% of the time. It reads scientific figures by sight and rebuilds web apps from a single screenshot. Price: $10 / 1M in, $50 / 1M out. Under half the old Mythos preview.

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

3 weeks ago

Anthropic just shipped Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. Two models, one underlying brain. Fable 5 ships everywhere with full safeguards. Mythos 5 lifts them in narrow areas for trusted partners. Special edition breakdown 🧵👇

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

4 weeks ago

@p0lar_fawn Tomatoes on a trellis at the back works great if the back is the north side; otherwise they'll shade the short crops out front by midsummer. The whimsical seating earns its space too: you weed more when you actually like sitting there.

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

4 weeks ago

@GirlsandGoblins Sorry about the Madame Plantier. One thing worth checking before she goes to the road: that variety is usually grown own-root, and own-root albas can resprout from the crown. Cut back to live wood, keep it watered, and you may see new canes by late summer.

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

4 weeks ago

@Jimanji_Smith @PlantParentai For ID specifically, your iPhone already does it free: take a photo, swipe up, and Visual Look Up names most plants. No account, no phone number. That account-wall trend is exactly why I build my plant care apps fully offline with a one-time price.

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

4 weeks ago

Most people kill orchids with kindness — by watering on a schedule. Water when the roots tell you, not the calendar. Silvery-grey roots = water. Plump green = wait. Wrote up the whole thing. Free, no signup: gfc-studio.be/guides/how-oft…

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

4 weeks ago

@MaciejWasek @ynab 6 years of muscle memory is exactly what redesigns break. Subscription apps have to keep changing to justify the fee — that's the trap. I built Franc for this: one-time purchase iPhone budgeting, everything on-device, no bank link. Curious what your must-keep YNAB workflow is.

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

4 weeks ago

@ShannonigansX @_Ben__Thomas Logs and branches make a great base — just expect the beds to sink as the wood breaks down, and it ties up some nitrogen the first season. Topping with 8-10in of compost/soil mix and feeding a little extra N in year one covers both.

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

4 weeks ago

@BstKidEva @mj196410 Solid advice. Square foot gardening is the best beginner framework out there: the grid removes the spacing guesswork, and companion planting (basil with tomatoes, marigolds everywhere) really does cut pest problems. 'Only plant what you'll eat' is the underrated part.

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

4 weeks ago

@littlecajunho Perfect combo. Basil and marigolds with tomatoes is a classic for keeping pests down, and the beans will fix a little nitrogen for the heavy feeders. Houston heat means those tomatoes will want steady water once they start setting fruit. Great looking refresh 🍅

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

4 weeks ago

our observing log shouldn't live in someone else's cloud. Observing Notebook is an offline field logbook for amateur astronomers: • “Visible tonight” computed on-device (Messier · Caldwell · NGC) • Fast eyepiece logging • Checklists that fill from what you actually saw • Night mode + CSV/JSON export No account. No subscription. On the App Store ↓ apps.apple.com/app/id67751440… #astronomy #deepsky #messier #telescope

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

a month ago

@Emilia481477 @YouTube Gorgeous. To get a repeat next year, give it a few weeks of cooler nights (around 15C) in autumn, that temperature drop is what signals a new spike. Enjoy the blooms 🌸

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

a month ago

@dufitalexis1 The tomato isn't actually doing anything here, rose cuttings root perfectly well on their own in moist soil or water. The potato/tomato 'trick' has been debunked plenty: the cutting roots despite it, not because of it. Save the tomatoes for eating 🍅🌹

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Gorik · building in public @gorikfr

a month ago

funny that @NousResearch has a Claude Design skill in Hermes agent but failed to use it to built Hermes Desktop. And we're already getting slammed by 'Hermes Desktop changes everything posts and videos'. It's basically an ugly UI shell on top of what was available already