Chris Watson
@watzon
Applied AI Engineer at BitStorm. Building cool things on the side as I go.
@BitStorm-Technologies- Utah, USA
- watzon.tech
- github.com/watzon
- Sponsor on GitHub
- Joined October 2026
Commit activity
66 commits in the last 30 days
longest streak 6 days
1,452 / 2,500 XP1,048 XP to root
Fri, Oct 30
Thu, Oct 29
If you're building with AI agents and trying to create a cross-platform desktop app, don't sleep on GPUI. It's honestly fantastic and I don't think I'll ever touch Electron or Tauri again.
This is the highlighting library in use. Contributions are needed.
https://github.com/tempestphp/highlight
GitHubGitHub - tempestphp/highlight: Fast, extensible, server-side code highlighting for web and terminalFast, extensible, server-side code highlighting for web and terminal - tempestphp/highlight
Wed, Oct 28
Working on 2 pretty awesome things this week in relation to my dictation app Sayso:
1. I've wanted to add things like meeting capture, note-taking, and other things that used to be in Pindrop, the app of which Sayso is a successor, but I don't want to bloat the app. So Sayso…
Making the engine usable separately opens up some interesting agent workflows. Does an SDK client connect to the same running model as the desktop app, or load its own? I’d want a dictation step to reuse what’s already in memory.
For my Mac peeps out there who also happen to use Linux (or vice-versa), I have a free solution for reading and writing ext4 partitions on macOS now https://github.com/watzon/mac-ext4
GitHubGitHub - watzon/mac-ext4: Read and write Linux ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems on macOS, with FSKit. Formats disks as ext4 from Disk Utility.Read and write Linux ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems on macOS, with FSKit. Formats disks as ext4 from Disk Utility. - watzon/mac-ext4
Tue, Oct 27
Fri, Oct 23
I love Paper so much. It has become an indispensable design tool for me, allowing me to put together some really nice looking apps and websites like this one.
Thu, Oct 22
Wed, Oct 21
/dev/null really does feel like the earlier days of Twitter. Never change.
Tue, Oct 20
Mon, Oct 19
AI has freed me up so that I can spend less time fretting about the code itself, and more time worrying about making things look and feel nice. For this I am grateful.
Who else loves Hermes, but is frustrated by the messy desktop experience? Just me?
I'm building something to fix that, but I want to make sure there's an audience if I'm going to release it.