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: https://x.com/i/spaces/1OxwbnXgpaEJB
Full write-up and the complete transcript: https://omarchyspaces.com/ep/07/

@calledtocnstrct Joe, show manager and co-host, and me @nixfred, co-host. Wes @ncfrontiersman was traveling this week, so Joe and I ran it together, splitting the interviews down the middle. Joe and I are the hosts 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 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.

/Nix and Larry