Private, local RAG for the Mac
Garage
garagerag.app ↗Garage indexes your documents, code, notes and messages on your own computer and serves them to your AI assistant over the Model Context Protocol. It uploads nothing: your assistant gets only the excerpts it searches for, never the whole collection.
- Hybrid search that combines vector similarity with full-text search
- Tracks whether each document is your own work, a reference, or something you received
- Runs its models locally through llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio
- Works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and other MCP clients
- Signed macOS app for Apple Silicon (macOS 14 and later), a TestFlight beta, a Linux command line, and Windows on the way
The platform for community apps
AudienceKit
audiencekit.com ↗AudienceKit gives a community its own app, with its own name, domain and look, and the venues, events and people that make it real. It generalizes Hot Mess: one API serves every audience, and each keeps its own identity.
- Venues grouped by city and neighbourhood, and events brought in from Facebook, Eventbrite and Ticketmaster, with RSVPs
- Pages for DJs, performers and hosts that members can follow
- Photographers share their sets straight to the audiences they shoot for
- An admin console for each audience, skinned in its own colours
- A GraphQL API with SDKs for Swift and Ruby
Queer nightlife, live
Hot Mess
hotmess.social ↗Hot Mess shows you the venues, events and DJs of your queer nightlife scene, and which of your friends are already out. I started it in 2015 to index a subculture by its people, places and events, and it now runs as an audience on AudienceKit.
- Now: the bar you're in, who is spinning, and where the night is heading
- Every party, drag show and DJ set in your city on one calendar, with RSVPs your friends can see
- The bars and clubs of your scene, with their upcoming nights
- Follow the DJs, hosts and performers you love
- Apps for iPhone and Android, plus a web app, with share links that open straight in the app
Create the unseen
Love Wins Media / LuminX
lovewins.media · luminx.media ↗Love Wins Media makes media for LGBTQ+ people, causes and the businesses that stand with them. As LuminX it takes the same crew and gear to brands, from custom AI neural networks to cinema-class production.
- Love Wins: "Tell it out loud." Our crew and our gear, at your story's service
- LuminX: "Create the unseen." Marketing, photography, cinema, 3D scanning and printing, live events, drone imaging and rentals
- Both sites share services, talent, equipment and a client portal
- Its software lives in the lwm-luminx GitHub organization, including
garage-rag,hotmess.socialandhedonism_bot
More of my open-source work is in Projects and places and on my About page.