I already had a bunch of my projects on the server with with code-server (VS code in a browser) set up to access it, so switching between code-server and OpenChamber is just switching tabs.

However, I've mostly been managing it from my phone - the OpenChamber app is awesome. I still switch back to my laptop occasionally - it's a better interface for reading and writing code, and also the desktop OpenChamber app has a built-in browser that it can control, which comes in handy. I can bring up documentation in one tab, log into a service in another, and then tell the agent to do something. For example, this was how I got it to connect my Nest thermostat to my Home Assistant instance after I had tried and failed several times on my own.)

Oh, and separate from all that, I have Facebook muse set to automatically lower prices on a couple things I have on FB marketplace.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Full stack JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Canvas, WebSockets, WebAssembly/Wasm, React, Svelte, Next.js, Express, Rust, web, mobile, desktop, AI/ML models, LLMs, MCP, agentic workflows, CI/CD, IoT, SQL, Postgres, SQLite, Redis, Memcached, APIs, Linux, Docker

Résumé/CV: https://www.nfriedly.com/Nathan-Friedly-Resume.pdf • https://www.nfriedly.com/portfolio • https://github.com/nfriedly

Email: nathan@nfriedly.com

Hi, I'm Nathan. I'm smart, curious, and willing to do the work (although I prefer to automate things!) I'm also kind, friendly, and empathetic.

I have quite a bit of experience with JavaScript and Node.js - I've been writing JS since before jQuery and working with Node.js since v0.2. I've also contributed a couple of patches to Node.js and maintain a number of libraries including express-rate-limit and set-cookie-parser, each of which is downloaded from npm over 250 million times per month.

Outside of web/JS, I have a decent breadth of experience with other technologies and can pick up new things pretty quickly - for example, I went from having never touched Dart/Flutter to shipping our first Flutter SDK in about 2 months. I've also been the one to help customers who use C# at a couple of different employers.

I'm currently working on a low-level mobile library with the core written in Rust and then Objective-C and Java for the iOS and Android bits, plus a little bit of Swift, Kotlin, Dart (Flutter), and JS (React Native & WebViews) where it helps the API. The backend is written in Go (golang), with TypeScript, React, and Canvas for the web app front end. And there are a few utility scripts in Bash, Python, & Ruby.

I put a lot of focus into good developer experience (DX/DevEx) when building APIs, libraries, SDKs, etc. To give a couple of examples:

* I added a suite of runtime checks to express-rate-limit that detect and warn about common misconfigurations (e.g. limiting the IP your reverse proxy instead of the end user.) It brought the number of "not-a-bug" bug reports down to essentially zero.

* I built the IBM Watson Speech JavaScript SDK as a series of compostable streams & transformers that expose every possible aspect of the API + a handful of higher-level functions that address most common use cases and handle the composition for you. It was good enough that Microsoft used it, with just the lowest portion swapped to point to their server! (It's open source, so that's allowed.)

Lately I've been using Claude for most coding at work, but still writing some by hand just to stay sharp. I also review everything it puts out. Overall I think it makes me more effective.

On my own time I put a pair of Radeon VIIs into my home server and I've been playing with different setups to run local models. My current favorite is Qwen 3.8 Flash Next running on Strata (I have a two-line PR up to make it compatible with my setup). It's been handy for open source work, updating my websites, managing my Home Assistant server (I just got solar panels installed), and things like that. I made a small script that connected directly to the API to organize and name a bunch of images. I've also trained smaller models from scratch with scikit-learn.

I'm comfortable in both individual contributor and leadership roles. I've run my own business and managed distributed teams before, but I'm generally happy to do whatever needs done.

I don't really expect anyone to use it as a touchscreen, but if they do, at least that will work too.

https://gizmodo.com/ipad-mini-oled-a20-pro-chip-2000830541#:...

But I use OpenCode / OpenChamber for personal stuff where I might only get 20 minutes at my computer before I have to go do something else. So the web interface and especially the mobile app get more use from me there. It's kind of wild to be working on a project while walking my dog or washing dishes or something along those lines.

I also used the desktop OpenChamber app once recently because it has a built-in web browser that the agent can fully control (unlike, for example, Gemini in Chrome).

Once I got past the initial hurdle of having to upgrade my server and clients all at once, everything has been smooth sailing.

When I was first getting started and didn't realize that ollama defaults to incredibly tiny amounts of context, Pi was the only harness that actually worked because the rest of them used up all of the context and then some with the system prompt. However, these days I've figure out llama.cpp and proper context sizes.

OpenChamber has been the real game-changer that caused me to switch back to OpenCode, though. I love being able to check in on it from my phone, a browser, etc. instead of having to be at my computer to get anything done.

The only thing HDMI really has going for it TV's/home theater equipment. (And that's partially because most of the manufacturers are part of the HDMI forum, so they're the ones receiving the royalties that everyone else pays to use HDMI.)

Play Store won't let me install them, but AuroraStore will, and most of the time they work fine after that.

For example, I have Balatro running on my Ayn Thor this way.

Some time later, I connected it to my dad's computer to put a couple more songs on it. The first thing it did when I hit "sync" was delete everything on the iPod.

I learned that day that "sync" meant something different to Apple than it did to me.

I'm sure it gave me some kind of prompt but it was not a clear "hey this is going to delete everything" prompt.

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