2025.06

• Initiated the application process for a Canadian visa (I need one, as all Georgians do.)
• Published the essay Where I Stand on AI—For Now to formalize my stance on AI tools.
• Open-sourced mastodon-hugo, a tool to fetch Mastodon feeds and convert them to Hugo/Markdown format.
• Made significant progress on Synapse MCP server—now capable of fetching and editing notes, comparing them with internet content, synthesizing new ideas, and storing them back in the vault.
• Wrote and published Ruins in Print, the 11th dispatch of The Flâneur newsletter.
• Visited and photographed the abandoned pansionats Medea and Imereti in Tskaltubo, Georgia.
• Started exploring new software tools, including the Dia browser by The Browser Company and Claude Code as a terminal replacement.
• Began discussions with the New York Academy of Arts about a potential exhibition at Jinny Street Gallery.
• Returned to Tokyo after six weeks of traveling to Madrid, Rome, and Tbilisi.

I traveled a lot this month. It felt good, as does being back in the studio.

I dove deep into AI programming skills, much more than I expected. I like these tools. I think it’s a new way of programming, essentially using the English language to guide the computer on what to do, which is what programming is all about. Some say these tools will replace programmers, but I think they’re just another abstraction layer in computing that enables more people to interact with them. Think of compilers and high-level languages. English is becoming one above that.

I made good progress with the Synapse application suite and have completed the MCP server part of it. I have already started using it with the Claude macOS app in conjunction with my Obsidian vault. I’m considering a soft launch of Synapse as an MCP and indexing application initially and will add text editing and thinking tools as I progress. Essentially, I’m thinking of developing it in the open.