Austin Ward

Tractor Beams, Wormholes, and #VR-- sounds like a perfect combination. #gamedev #scifi

@bryan_johnson I spent years at Tesla Autopilot building systems that make decisions across every relevant feature in the 3D world. Now I'm applying that same approach to the human body. I have some ideas on data points you may be missing.

I got C-holed. Suffered sleep consequences. I busted my screens-off rule. Turned down socializing. Fell behind on work. Kate is now upset. AI is preposterous. As close to magic as I’ve experienced (except a seed becoming a tree and a zygote becoming a baby). It started on April 2nd when Karpathy shared LLM Knowledge bases. I wondered if this was the opening to structure the 1.5 billion data points I’ve collected on my body over the past five years. It's the most dynamic n=1 biomarker dataset in history. It was just sitting there. Next thing I knew two weeks had passed and Kate was wondering if she lost her boyfriend to Claude. I’m non-technical. Which honestly makes me sad. I wish I’d grown up with a computer or at least been around engineer culture. I didn’t know anyone technical until my early 20s. I became an entrepreneur at 21 and had my first of three kids at 25. I sold Braintree Venmo at 34. Learning to code stayed on my to-do list through all of it. The timing was never right. I was always on the outside looking in, wishing I had the skills to assemble 0's and 1's into digital structures. The exhilaration I’ve felt in the past two weeks is hard to explain. The 1.5 billion data points became a functional database, queryable, and microscope into my 70 trillion cells. The biological age of my organs updated in real-time like stock tickers. My build morphed from a knowledge base into a breathing organism that was self-learning and in sync with my heartbeat. I did this entirely on my own. It’s buggy, breaks and the data needs to be cleaned, but damn it’s cool. It became a mirror and ledger, one I could ask questions to. About my psyche, behavioral patterns, biology and protocols. Patterns across my life I couldn't previously connect. It’s made me insatiably hungry for more data. I’ve written about Autonomous Health, how cars now drive themselves and software wires itself. Health is next. My build showed me what it looks like in practice. Before Kate started protesting, she joked that she felt relieved for herself, our colleagues, and the world that I’d found something that matches my energy. That they could all express a sigh of relief. It’s true. This experience left me wondering if I’ve been bored my entire life. Never having found something that could match my work ethic, speed, intensity, and build capacity. Something that didn’t have the delays of the real world, human complications, or logistical drag. Two weeks deep in AI and I'm realizing that when people talk about AI, they're not talking about the same thing. Someone using a chat interface has a completely different opinion than someone building with it. And that chasm deepens for the people seeing what's coming next but isn't yet public. Society can't have a coherent conversation about AI because everyone's intuitions are calibrated to a different version of it. Off-the-shelf LLMs are mostly useless beyond narrow tasks. When they get you 80% there, it's often faster to do the whole thing yourself. And they're dangerous because the hallucination is hard to detect. Now you don't know what you don't know. Give them expanded context, memory, and architectures for self-reflection and autonomous learning, and you start to realize that AI is bigger than any of us can fit in our context window. I need to take Kate on a date, turn my screens off on time, and get some work done. And then properly dose C. Note: the image above is my 2021 baseline when starting this longevity project.

@bryan_johnson I'm deep in the same hole. What keeps pulling me in: the most effective way to protect life is to make your own data fully accessible to these systems and let them recognize the patterns and surface what matters.

@AliBrownleetri How was breathing rate measured?

The body whispers long before it shouts. This week we analysed ~2.5M sleep and symptom records shows that PMS leaves only a subtle trace on wearables, but a loud one in how we feel. Night-time breathing rate is the clearest physiological signal, rising around PMS days, while heart rate and sleep metrics shift only slightly. Yet the largest effects are in emotional and physical symptoms, echoing what broader PMS research shows: most women experience premenstrual symptoms, and for many, they are highly impactful. So if your app tells you “all good” but you feel off, that’s not in your head — it’s in your data, just not always on your wrist. Listen to your body first; use the metrics as context, not the judge. Read the full research linked in the comments below. @TerraAPI #WomensHealth #DataScience #Wearables #PMS #HealthTech #ListenToYourBody

Friends, stop drinking alcohol. Not cut back. Eliminate. > alcohol increases cortisol > disrupts REM sleep > accelerates epigenetic aging > shrinks hippocampal volume > elevates resting heart rate > raises inflammatory markers > impairs glucose metabolism for 16 hrs One drink does that.

Your AI tools don't share memory. Every session starts from zero. Built an MCP server that gives every agent the same persistent knowledge graph. Markdown, wiki-links, git-backed, viewable in Obsidian. gist.github.com/TheAwesomeTheo…

Society sells death as pleasure. + fast food + gambling + alcohol + nicotine + social media + porn Rebel.

@IroncladDev 👀 where can i see

@AdamVRDev my screensavers are using these effects but guns

Excited to meet up with a bunch of awesome linux peeps and talk about Omarchy see y'all there

@newstart_2024 This quote nails it. The screen wasn't the problem — sitting still was.

“As long as your body is healthy, you have thousands of problems. But the moment your body gets sick, you only have one problem.” Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi said this so calmly when asked about sports, and it stopped me cold. He explained that any sport is good because the foundation of everything is taking care of the body. When your health is solid, life throws endless worries at you — work, relationships, goals, daily stress. But the second your body breaks down, all of that disappears and you’re left with just one single problem: getting healthy again. That’s why he says respect, nourish, and love your body first. It’s the most precious thing you have right now. Such a short, simple truth from a Shaolin Master, yet it completely reframes how we prioritize our days. How often do you actually put your physical health at the top of the list — or does it usually slip to the bottom?

@newstart_2024 Switched to Termius + Tailscale + Whispr Flow on an iPad. Now I walk around talking to my tablet, reviewing Claude plans out loud. Same output, but I'm moving all day.

@newstart_2024 Spent a decade as an engineer glued to a screen. Autopilot code, VR games, 14-hour sessions — my body was just a chair accessory.

@komagata x.com/AdamVRDev/stat…

Omarchyでmac風の良い日本語変換 - komagataのブログ docs.komagata.org/6444 #omarchy

@Rchards @bcherny @dhh Already using Claude Code + Omarchy vibes — built a screensaver that Claude sets up for you from a repo x.com/AdamVRDev/stat…

@bcherny any chance you could launch a desktop app for Linux/omarchy cc @dhh

@SubtleGradient @awesomekling For the Mac side of the house — I made an open source version of the Omarchy screensaver that runs natively on macOS x.com/AdamVRDev/stat…

@awesomekling my 11" macbook air from 2015 runs omarchy arch linux distro very nicely. can even run some local on-device models. my main phone is still the iphone 13 mini since it's the perfect size; wish there was something like omarchy for e-waste level handheld tech also

In 2015 I was part of a large effort inside Apple to make iOS run better on then-4-year-old iPhones, and although we made solid improvements across the entire system, the result just wasn’t great. And even if we managed to make the base system as smooth as it had been 4 years earlier, the amount of slowdown accumulated across the app ecosystem (and the web!) was simply unfixable at the OS level. You may find this regrettable but it’s reality.

@JulianGoldieSEO Been using Claude Code to build stuff like this — pointed it at a repo and it set up a custom macOS screensaver with animated text effects in minutes x.com/AdamVRDev/stat…

You can now run OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude Code, Cline, and Roo Code completely free 🤯 Just use Google’s Gemma 4 through OpenRouter and suddenly all your favorite AI tools work with zero API costs. One free model unlocks your entire AI setup forever. This might be the best free AI hack of 2026. 🚀

@ilmakio Love seeing native macOS builds — I did something similar with a screensaver x.com/AdamVRDev/stat…

I was tired of managing secrets across notes and different tools So I built a native macOS app that stores everything locally using Keychain 🔐 Supports API keys, database credentials, SSH, .env, S3 and more No cloud, no accounts, no tracking, OPEN SOURCE✨

@BuiltWithClaude 100%. My screensaver project has a CLAUDE.md that lets anyone clone it and Claude handles the full custom text setup x.com/AdamVRDev/stat…

Unpopular opinion: the best AI coding setup in 2026 isn't the fanciest IDE plugin. It's Claude Code in a terminal + a well-structured codebase + clear project docs. No GUI overhead. No context window wasted on UI chrome. Just you, the code, and an agent that actually reads your architecture before suggesting changes. The devs shipping fastest right now are the ones who went back to basics.

@dhh I took this further — 37 animated effects, live at 60fps, any custom text. x.com/AdamVRDev/stat…

To customize the awesome Omarchy screensaver with your own logo, just go to Style > Screensaver. It'll open up the ASCII art in an editor, and you can put whatever you like. Use this ASCII generator to make something cool: asciiart.eu/text-to-ascii-…

@cyanpuppets i have been using PHMR, what’s this one?

In the past, AI motion capture was too unstable to form a reliable workflow. Now, with a 1-billion-parameter AI real-time motion model, you can connect a 1080P camera or upload videos to achieve highly stable, low-latency real-time capture. It supports UE, Unity, and Blender, and requires 8GB of VRAM for real-time processing.