{"type":"page","slug":"now","title":"Now","summary":"What Walt is working on, exploring and thinking about right now.","published_at":"2026-09-02T00:00:00-04:00","revised_at":null,"body_markdown":"Building the write gate for [Knowfer](/projects/knowfer), so the fleet's evaluators stop producing evidenced verdicts and then dropping them. Shipping stubs that close themselves. Launching this site as a publishing server and moving everything canonical onto it.\n\n## Working on\n\n- The Knowfer canon gate: three hooks may write, everything else reads, a quarantine for probe noise, and an autopilot class that stays dark until it earns trust.\n- [zap](/projects/zap): routing Reclaim Space deletions through the journal so `undo` covers everything.\n- This site: Phase 2 — search relationships, social-feed ingestion, the publishing desk.\n\n## Exploring\n\n- Local models on Apple silicon as a privacy tier, not a daily driver.\n- What a sleep lab would look like if its software had been designed this decade.\n- Podcasting from this infrastructure rather than through a host.\n\n## Reading and re-reading\n\n- Sutton, *The Bitter Lesson*.\n- Old RFCs. They are shorter than modern documentation and say more.\n\nUpdated when things change. The plain version is at [/now.txt](/now.txt).\n","body_html":"<p>Building the write gate for <a href=\"/projects/knowfer\">Knowfer</a>, so the fleet’s evaluators stop producing evidenced verdicts and then dropping them. Shipping stubs that close themselves. Launching this site as a publishing server and moving everything canonical onto it.</p>\n<h2 id=\"working-on\">Working on<a href=\"#working-on\" aria-label=\"Link to heading 'Working on'\" data-heading-content=\"Working on\" class=\"anchor\"></a></h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Knowfer canon gate: three hooks may write, everything else reads, a quarantine for probe noise, and an autopilot class that stays dark until it earns trust.</li>\n<li><a href=\"/projects/zap\">zap</a>: routing Reclaim Space deletions through the journal so <code>undo</code> covers everything.</li>\n<li>This site: Phase 2 — search relationships, social-feed ingestion, the publishing desk.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2 id=\"exploring\">Exploring<a href=\"#exploring\" aria-label=\"Link to heading 'Exploring'\" data-heading-content=\"Exploring\" class=\"anchor\"></a></h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Local models on Apple silicon as a privacy tier, not a daily driver.</li>\n<li>What a sleep lab would look like if its software had been designed this decade.</li>\n<li>Podcasting from this infrastructure rather than through a host.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2 id=\"reading-and-re-reading\">Reading and re-reading<a href=\"#reading-and-re-reading\" aria-label=\"Link to heading 'Reading and re-reading'\" data-heading-content=\"Reading and re-reading\" class=\"anchor\"></a></h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sutton, <em>The Bitter Lesson</em>.</li>\n<li>Old RFCs. They are shorter than modern documentation and say more.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Updated when things change. The plain version is at <a href=\"/now.txt\">/now.txt</a>.</p>\n","text":"Building the write gate for Knowfer, so the fleet’s evaluators stop producing evidenced verdicts and then dropping them. Shipping stubs that close themselves. Launching this site as a publishing server and moving everything canonical onto it.\nWorking on\n\nThe Knowfer canon gate: three hooks may write, everything else reads, a quarantine for probe noise, and an autopilot class that stays dark until it earns trust.\nzap: routing Reclaim Space deletions through the journal so undo covers everything.\nThis site: Phase 2 — search relationships, social-feed ingestion, the publishing desk.\n\nExploring\n\nLocal models on Apple silicon as a privacy tier, not a daily driver.\nWhat a sleep lab would look like if its software had been designed this decade.\nPodcasting from this infrastructure rather than through a host.\n\nReading and re-reading\n\nSutton, The Bitter Lesson.\nOld RFCs. They are shorter than modern documentation and say more.\n\nUpdated when things change. The plain version is at /now.txt.","url":"https://waltspence.com/now","links":{"html":"https://waltspence.com/now","json":"https://waltspence.com/now.json","txt":"https://waltspence.com/now.txt","md":"https://waltspence.com/now.md","canonical":"https://waltspence.com/now"},"revisions":[]}