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Sunday Builders Club, Episode 7: "The one where the next corner is 15 minutes away." Recorded Sunday, October 25, 2026. An hour and 42 minutes, 129 tuned in, 9 people came up to speak, and every one of them was building something. Listen: xitter.cf/i/spaces/1OxwbnXgpaEJB Full write-up and the complete transcript: omarchyspaces.com/ep/07/ @calledtocnstrct Joe, show manager and co-host, and me @nixfred, co-host. Wes @ncfrontiersman host was traveling this week, so Joe and I ran it together, splitting the interviews down the middle. We just run the show but YOU are the star!!! In the order they spoke: Lee, Zach, DevSec, Heath, Compiling Things, Portia, Dan, Steve and John. Joe ran the speaker queue and kept everybody in the order they raised their hand. Thank you, brother! THE WEEK IN OMARCHY First thing I did was misname the Space. It said Nix's Space. This is not Nix's Space, this is the Builders Club. That is what you get when you do not have Wes. Fixed it live. Then the news, because you people do not sleep. Compiling Things put his wife on Omarchy this week, and DHH replied and asked for a list of everything she found annoying. Joe's take: you cannot get a human on a customer service line anymore, and here is DHH, and Ryan too, right there on the front lines on X taking feedback from the user of the user. @devsec_ai put out Uber TV 0.4, now with a DVR. I have been recording a lot of Rick and Morty, do not tell anybody. Omarchy is booting on the NVIDIA Shield as Omarchy TV Beta and DHH posted it. Omarchy 4.5 RC1 is out, the very first feature release since Quattro, with 50-plus languages. I put it on my laptop with a 45-inch monitor, and the thing that jumped out was floating spaces that dock. I am not sold. Joe sees it as an on-ramp. Once the keybindings clicked for him, he stopped reaching for the mouse to hunt for the little arrow and drag and resize, and it freed up his ability to think. He does not think that is all AI. There is something special in how Omarchy is put together, and keeping drag and drop around lets newcomers make the jump slowly. The agent panel went from 9 to 23 agents in one press of the Enter button. DHH said "just put an Omabot on it," and half an hour later Omabots were posting in CI about unintended encrypted installs that same morning. Omarchy QA now runs against the nightly every single day, and right behind that DHH posted about the hours spent manually testing and verifying releases in the first year. Joe has been raiding his junk drawer. He reverse-engineered a Tobii eye tracker that was locked to approved games, and now he is eyeing his Chromebook Slate. LARRY GOT A BOSS Last week Larry moved into Grok Bot. This week Anthropic shipped Claude Code connectors, so Grok Bot now manages Claude Code for me. Grok Bot is my connector to Gmail, calendar and 40-something other connectors. When I start a project I make a new bot, tell it to go to my machine, into Herder, through the Claude Code connector, and I tell it: you are not coding this, Larry is. Larry has 10 months of my settings, and Grok Bot types into the session like a third party. Best of both worlds. Joe is doing the same thing with his mouth. He sat at lunch in Grok Bot voice mode with his eyes closed and talked through what he wanted his team to build. Grok Bot files and manages the issues on his GitLab server, and a Grok build team runs in a loop that checks what is ready, pulls it in and spins off sub-agents. He just imagines it and discusses it. WHERE DOES IT GO FROM HERE? That was the question for the room. Joe called it fog of war, minus the war. It is a period of extreme potential and bloom, and the haze keeps getting closer. My take: when software took six months, you announced it and had six months to think about what came next. Now somebody tweets at 8 AM that they will ship a CRM tonight and it is out by 9:30. You cannot see beyond the next corner because the next corner is 15 minutes away. @NotJustShaking Lee is my boy, and he showed up with six things. Part one of his Omarchy and Waveshare article is on his Substack, link in his bio, and part two is underway. It is about making it easier for people with disabilities and cognitive issues to control the Omarchy desktop from what is in essence an iPad. Basti invited him onto his podcast, they recorded an hour yesterday on Lee's switch to Omarchy, and it comes out in two weeks. He is building the Wired Differently vault for Omarchy for Different Minds, an Obsidian vault that Claude or Codex builds for you through a set of questions, and he is testing it on an old iMac he put Omarchy on, with a Chromebook and an old ThinkPad next. Grok Bot has access to his vault step by step, and Grok and his ChatGPT assistant talk to each other through Markdown files so they do not double up. Please follow Lee and subscribe to his Substack. Give him a little more voice. @ZryMiller Zach has spent two months on Sotto, his own agent development environment, and its Watcher feature. The problem: a thread hits a question buried in its reasoning summary and sits idle for hours. Watcher hooks into your subscriptions, puts a model on watch over your threads, brings Zach only the questions and permissions, and keeps everything else moving. Its biggest job is a CI queue for PR merges so agents stop stepping on each other. It keeps a notepad outside compaction and checks in on any thread idle for 20 minutes. Next is orchestrating across machines over Tailscale, handing a thread to another box when the CPU loads up or a test needs linux. It runs on Windows, macOS and Omarchy, has an iOS app and dictation built in, and it is fully open source, link in his bio. I asked if the frontier labs will just ship this. Maybe a month, maybe six, but he does not want his work running on someone else's cloud computer. @devsec_ai Martin called in from a car. We are in the early stages, resetting the foundation the way the 90s internet and Web 2.0 did, and this is a new stack. The frontier labs will integrate a lot, but what they ship are defaults, and defaults always need customization. That should empower you. Security is the key, and expect friction: walled gardens and terms of service fights, like eBay banning sellers for stupid reasons in the early e-commerce days. He also had his agent flag omarchystore.com as a possible scam. My update: they shut the store down, said "we heard you," are removing anything with elevated permissions and are reviewing every listing. Give them grace. Then the Shield. A 2017 NVIDIA Shield, Tegra X1, 48 hours of 16 to 18 hour days, writing drivers for sound, GPU acceleration and thermal management. Agents did a lot of it, but hardware means plugging and unplugging. Next up is a Surface Pro 4 with the touchscreen working and a desktop mode and tablet mode that switch when you dock and undock. DHH is eager to see it. @MuchmoreIT I have known Heath 20 years. He did mission planning for the F-117 stealth fighter on Cray supercomputers. Today he is working with a 2.8 trillion parameter model, 105 billion active, that needs 72 GPUs for a single instance. I asked if I can run it on my 5070. Once it is quantized, maybe. His advice: GPU memory matters most, but you do not need the newest card, because models keep getting squished. Download LM Studio and start pushing models. He has an engine waiting on legal clearance, and he wants to bring the manager of managers down to size: one Omarchy box coordinating Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle and your local server. He says his company is the only one authorized to install Google TPUs on premises. I told him I have a Best Buy credit card. That will buy me a couple minutes on the TPU. He has more ideas than time, so reach out and he will throw you one. @Compilethings Joe asked how he sees the road ahead. He sticks to his system and lets the noise settle. His system is an orchestrator of orchestrators in Claude Code: seven sessions, session one hands out the work and holds the context, and compact, startup and shutdown skills keep it all alive. It ran for a week while he was in Poland and he checked it twice a day over remote desktop. They do not stop. A GitHub release with a one-click test and an article is coming within about two days, and he wants Zach to pick it apart. He prefers criticism. He runs an all-AMD rig of R9700s for local inference, and his wife uses it for legal work she wants off the internet. Omarchy lives on his T480. He plays on both sides, open and closed. "I see open source video games as good as the main publishers. We can adapt like humans do." @letsbuildanyway Portia talks to a lot of people who are not developers, and she wants to know which of this tech someone who does not like to tinker will actually adopt, and what stays a hobby. Her bet: the biggest technology is UX and how workflows change, and the hardest part is how corporations are structured. Her latest video is on local models, downloading one with Hermes and finding out what her hardware can really do. She also said we underestimate how many people want someone to tell them what to do, and that freedom can feel like a threat. Joe tabled that one for a future call. Portia, you are one of the teammates. @dsegan Dan has been in tech since the late 90s, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, early Slackware. He came to Omarchy before Quattro to build a hacker workstation in his basement workshop next to a Commodore 64. He is building a Lucasfilm-style adventure game about his friends' punk comedy band. His day job is at a hyperscaler that also sells an office suite, where enterprise AI adoption is the Wild West, and software development was never the hard part. He handed Grok Bot an API key to his UniFi setup and it fixed his radios, the UPnP broadcasts and the printer chatter. Network retries went to zero. On the way to buy a NAS he talked to it from his car and had it SSH in and get everything ready. "It felt really Star Trek." He runs a Cleveland-area Omarchy meetup in Beachwood, Ohio, the last Thursday of the month, which is this Thursday. He was the only one at the first one. Go! @_fromahuman_ Steve spent 25 years in tech, Microsoft and servers, and in 2018 he and his wife packed up the two kids, bought an RV and traveled Europe, Bali and Mexico. Then they bought land and lived in a tent for about a year to learn the water and the sun, gardened before they built anything, and now have a cabin, a proper solar setup and a house under construction. He has been learning linux since 2018 and his kids are on linux laptops. Somebody mentioned Omarchy a third time, he dual-booted it, and two or three months later it is on every laptop he owns. Updating each machine in person got painful, so he is building a client and server CLI, a fleet manager for Omarchy: list your machines and their skills, copy skills between them, update them remotely, and secure it all with per-machine tokens that can be read-only or admin. PXE boot is next. He uses a different agent per project so context does not get contaminated, and keeps coming back to Hermes for its bridge mode across machines. @drxiaozhi John is building something unconventional: a whole JavaScript stack with Bun as PID 1, so the same source runs on Windows, Android and linux without a binary for every system. This week he is rewriting QuickShell in JavaScript and getting as many Omarchy apps running on it as he can. And yes, JavaScript, not Java. Joe closed it out. He gave DHH credit for the leadership through all of this, and said he never realized how locked down the computing world was, and here he is writing software. Then he quoted DHH: "I don't want another business that serves customers." Build something because it is fun, because it helps somebody, because it builds a community. If you are not feeling connected in this community yet, DM him. My last word: everybody here is here to learn. No judgment, no egos. Heath works on 100,000 GPUs and he is about as humble as they come. Every one of you is the star. ASKS ON THE TABLE Follow everybody in the room and boost each other. I followed everyone I could find and X rate limited me. Follow @NotJustShaking Lee and subscribe to his Substack. Try Sotto, Zach's open source ADE. The link is in his bio. When Compiling Things drops his orchestrator on GitHub, run the one-click test and tell him what is wrong with it. He prefers criticism. Heath has more ideas than time. Reach out and he will throw you one. Cleveland area? Dan's Omarchy meetup is in Beachwood, Ohio, the last Thursday of the month. That is this Thursday. Not feeling connected yet? DM @calledtocnstrct and get connected. QUESTIONS STILL OPEN Q1. Where does it go from here? When the next corner is 15 minutes away, how do you plan past it? Q2. Portia's question: which of this will regular people actually use, and which stays a hobby for tinkerers? NEXT SUNDAY Same time, 3PM EST on X Spaces, and Wes is back! @Chronara_ai got dropped before their turn, so come back! If you did not get to speak today, we are sorry, please come back! And remember! Help an old lady across the street, and when you get her over there, put Omarchy on her laptop. Your only limitation now is not putting it in a prompt.

Omarchy + AI is empowering those who know their business but are not yet comfortable with AI/computers. Some entire business verticals are 20yrs "behind on tech". Some of these companies will just skip the last 30yrs of computer struggles in one day if they can get some basics figured out. buildlarry.com gets them to a well configured agent in claude code on mac. There is a moment when you SHOW someone the power of AI solving a small problem in their business... it clicks. The bulb gets brighter as each prompt+answer connects the dots of the possible. If they get stuck its a simple, "What do I do next?" They have a 50 person IT dept for $200/month. Help someone make that step. Its why I built buildlarry.com Arguably the biggest early adopter story in history. Love to zoom chat, hmu. calendly.com/nixfred

I'm building a first-person shooter with AI. live. in public. 10 hours in. it's called SIGKILL. here's the idea: you start it and it reads your computer. your real folders become the levels. your biggest folder is a skyscraper. node_modules is a maze with no bottom. the enemies are the programs actually running on your machine. 40 browser tabs? that's a swarm. a maxed-out CPU core? that's the boss. your own AI, the one you code with every day, jacks in and fights beside you. every gun is a linux command. kill -9 is a rail rifle. fork() is a shotgun whose pellets split in two. /dev/null is a black hole. Tron + Matrix + cyberpunk. native linux. it only reads, it never touches your files. and an AI is writing every line of code right now. so here's the deal: it has no taste yet. give it yours. reply with ONE prompt. a weapon, an enemy, a mechanic, a thing you've always wanted in a shooter, a thing you never want to see again. I'll feed the best ones straight into the build. if yours makes it in, your name goes in the credits. what are you adding?

Your AI has been watching you code for months. What would happen if you handed it a weapon? What if an FPS game map was built from YOUR own machine's structure? What if YOUR default AI Agent was in the match with you? What if your terminal fought back? What if kill -9 was a weapon? Cyberpunk meets Matrix meets Tron. The big FPS game studios can't ship this...we can. the daemons know you. you've been feeding them all along. - levels built live from your own machine - enemies spawned from the processes you're actually running - your Omarchy AI joins you in the match - easy multiplayer invites across the internet - live GPU stats on the HUD - Tron meets The Matrix, native on linux - reads only, never touches your real system >_ SIGKILL coming soon. Open Source. Built for linux. Fork it so hard.

This makes me a little uneasy to post bc I dont talk about me much unless its something really I F'ed up. I'll take these as my guide going forward and never bs you. @grok give me 10 real reasons people follow me. *gulp*.

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Infomarchy is ready for Omarchy 4.5 Infomarchy turns your desktop into a live info-desk overlayed to your background picture. Shows every AI agent you're running, what it's doing and your sub burn. What Infomarchy needed to be Omarchy 4.5 ready: O4.5 ships 22 usage collectors, one per agent. Infomarchy read the records alphabetically and capped them at 16, so ollama, openrouter, qwen, synthetic, vibe and zai got silently dropped. The cap is now 48, with a test that fails on the old one. The new Claude collector dies with a KeyError when OMARCHY_PATH is unset, which would have left Claude limits stale with no warning. Infomarchy now passes it explicitly. Qt 6.12 needed the palette singleton qualified as Commons.Color so theme colors resolve. Codex threads no longer double count after a rename. Tested on 4.5.rc1 with Qt 6.12: 0 QML errors, the SUPER+D overlay works, and the Claude, Codex and Grok limit bars are live. FREE and MIT: github.com/nixfred/infomarch… Which agents are on your desk right now?

Come do "lines of omarchy" with @Arn0Stride7 today at 3pm EST! xitter.cf/i/spaces/1qJDzWZWnjwKV…

omarchy builder #19: @wardaug5399 Warren Westfall is a pipeline controller in Alaska. About 530,000 barrels a day across 800 miles of pipe and 3 mountain ranges, from a control room "automated to the hilt." Omarchy clicked for him in a few days: "I've always been a keystroke guy... This is what I've been looking for!" Now every machine he owns runs it. He built an expenses widget for the omarchy bar and a local AI setup on his RTX 3070 Ti. Full story: omarchy.builders/builders/wa… What made omarchy click for you?

Here's my take on the coming AI valley. They say the frontiers burn $8k-$12k operating costs for each $200 subscriber. I think those numbers are close and don't think today's subscription pricing remains $200/m by this time next year. Frontiers are facing pressure to recover investments. The AI valley begins when subscriptions become priced at their true operating costs. The AI valley's biggest hit will be the gap between what folks can locally afford compared to the cloud reasoning they grew accustomed to and will have to pay full price. Open weights on consumer gpus will always trail frontier by years and that gap will be even more painful for folks spoiled by $200/month subscriptions soon to be 'full price'. My laptop RTX5070 chokes down 8b-14b models 'OK' at best for simple code, rag, and small tool calls and are years away from being similarly useful... if ever. For some pending $200 a month beats $6K upfront for lower quality output and a 3-4yr shelf life... likely still spending the same $200/m on a sub. When the AI valley arrives most folks wont drop $6k to be comparatively disappointed. It will be a harsh winter for folks in the middle drunk frontier output and have no access to real local. I think the future will be model routing. Execute local and send reasoning to the cloud...that reasoning will likely still be $200 but far less tokens served. I'm not sure where the coming AI valley takes us...Id love to hear your thoughts. Where am I wrong and what am I missing? My $ is on @0xSero and Id love to hear his opinion.

🔥 Omarchy Sunday Builders Clup ep07 🔥 Sunday 3PM EST On this show: 🚀 Omarchy 4.5 RC1, "three releases in one" 🎮 Omarchy on a PS5 and an NVIDIA Shield 🤖 the agents run QA now 🔒 Arch says update now, twice 🌏 an Omarchy China edition with Alibaba Cloud Built something this week? Broke something? COME TELL US ABOUT IT!!! New to linux or Omarchy? COME HANG OUT! No politics, no ego. HEAR YOU THERE! (pls RT to get the word out?) xitter.cf/i/spaces/1qJDzWZWnjwKV… / @SundayBuildClub @ncfrontiersman @calledtocnstrct