Trust, and Reviewing Changes
This morning on the drive back from school drop-off my Eleven Reader’s AI voice confidently proclaimed over my car stereo: Our team members still review…
Murphy Randle
Software Engineer
As an Engineer at Day One, I’ve spent over a decade elevating software architecture, especially in syncing secure, end-to-end encrypted data. Now, I’m leveraging Large Language Models to explore a future of journaling that puts unprecedented power in your hands to record and understand your own life data.
Latest Long Posts
Trust, and Reviewing Changes
This morning on the drive back from school drop-off my Eleven Reader’s AI voice confidently proclaimed over my car stereo: Our team members still review…
Local LLM benchmark: 7 model/host combos, 3 passes each, one agentic task
Seven local model/host combinations on an M5 Max with 128 GB, three passes each on the same agentic coding task, averaged: prefill, decode, memory, MTP acceptance, cache hit rate and…
How to use custom UI with Jetpack’s newsletter signup
You can replace Jetpack’s newsletter signup UI — the Subscribe block or the popup — with your own form, and keep driving the exact same…
Qwen Flash Preview is exciting
I’m lucky enough to have an M5 Max MacBook with 128gb of Ram, and I’ve been spending a lot of sweat this summer trying to…
Short Stuff
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· 3d
What are some of your favorite, high quality developer-oriented blogs?
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· 3d
I couldn't find an RSS feed for Figma's dev blog either, can you?
https://www.figma.com/blog/engineering/
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· 3d
I'm so surprised and bummed that Anthropic's blog doesn't have an RSS feed. It's a great standard that supports the open web and free flow of information, but folks are forgetting about it. 🙁
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· Oct 7
I've never heard a song so packed with ultra geeky science and programming references. AI Music and video production have problematic effects. And they are also opening a world of art to niches, interests, individuals that couldn't afford to be expressed or experienced in art like this before.
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· Sep 15
Ring ring 🌴
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· Sep 14
Tools & Stack
Featured Projects
Day One Journal
activeDay One has been my primary focus for a decade. I've lead teams, architected re-writes, prototyped new features, and supported users. We've been through two generations of digital journaling, and now we're working on ushering in the third.
Love Notes
in-developmentA slow-burning background project, Love Notes is a mobile app intended to help romantic partners share spicy images while keeping their data private, protected, and prioritizing their individual consent.
SkateOh8
in-developmentAn offline-first, lightweight mobile app to help you and your skate crew know just how gnarly you are IRL. Track sessions, land tricks, rack up XP.
Pocket Apps
in-developmentMake apps for yourself, from your phone, on your phone. Lightweight, local-first, decentralized. This is homebrew software made easy.
Work Experience
2016 - Present
Day One [Automattic] / Engineer, Architect, & Team Lead
2014 - 2016
Kuali / Software Engineer
2013 - 2014
Space Monkey / Web Engineer
2011