Prototyping a Tool for Ancient Greek LLM Gloss Generation
Introducing apo, a free and open-source CLI that uses LLMs to generate word-by-word glosses and prose translations of Ancient Greek.
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Brandon Lucas
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Writing on software, history and philosophy; building Kai and Lyceum.
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Prototyping a friendlier frontend for determinate computing
Making determinate computing friendly by building a modular frontend for Nix, Guix, and future reproducible systems.
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Lyceum: A New Ancient Greek Digital Library For A Post-LLM World
Building an AI-powered pipeline to generate the largest, richest corpus of Ancient Greek texts with interlinear translations, morphology, and treebank data from a single prompt.
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Fear to Attempt
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt
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Payjoin for a Better Bitcoin Future
Payjoin is a protocol that uses a simple, clever trick in the way Bitcoin creates transactions to solve many of its problems at once.
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Micropayments and the Lightning Network
Content monetization on the internet is broken. Credit card fees prohibit the ability to make small payments for individual pieces of content. Creators have to choose between invading user privacy by selling their data,…
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All writing →- Kai Devlog #7: Triumph of RocBlog
Apologies in advance for the brief post. More details to come soon.
- Kai Devlog #6: κατακλυσμός!Blog
Refactoring Kai's plugin schema while adding better errors, system management, deployment, ISO creation, SOPS secrets, and backend escape hatches.
- Kai Devlog #5: Conceptual Integrity and Being a Better ProgrammerBlog
Building Kai for the long term through conceptual integrity, better tools, deliberate practice, and dogfooding.
- Kai Devlog #4: Environment, Task, Build, WorkflowBlog
Expanding Kai with reusable environments, runnable tasks, composable workflows, portable builds, and overlays.
- Kai Devlog #3: Custom DSL & Plugin ModulesBlog
Replacing Kai's embedded Roc config with a custom DSL and making plugin modules simpler, reusable, and validated.
- Kai Devlog #2: ModularityBlog
Building Kai around replaceable commands, extensible plugins, and custom determinate backends.
- Kai Devlog #1: BoundariesBlog
Finding the right boundary between Kai's simple configuration and Nix's power.
Journal
The whole journal →- 21 October 2026
Announcing Lyceum Study!
- 21 October 2026
The latest data release for Lyceum is out! Newly added are the complete New Testament Romans and Plato’s Crito enhanced with contextual glosses and verse-by-verse prose translations.
- 16 October 2026
“Software as legos”, mutable, porous, adaptable, modular, becomes higher-yield as personalization continues to cheapen.
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All projects →Kaiactive
A friendly frontend for determinate computing.
Latest: Kai Devlog #7: Triumph of Roc
Lyceumactive
A modern interface for reading Ancient Greek texts.
Latest: Prototyping a Tool for Ancient Greek LLM Gloss Generation
CoNLL-U Visualizeractive
An open source, accountless PWA visualizer for CoNLL-U files.
roc-overlaymaintained
Install and pin nightly Roc compiler builds reproducibly with Nix.
Latest: Packaging Roc Nightlies with a Nix Flake and Overlay
bitcoin-qrmaintained
A zero-dependency QR code web component for BIP-21 Bitcoin and Lightning payments.
Latest: <bitcoin-qr/> - A Zero-Dependency Web Component for Stylish BIP-21 Payments
Someone who asked, ‘why believe what is true?’ or ‘why want what is good?’ has failed to understand the nature of reasoning. He doesn’t see that, if we are to justify our beliefs and desires at all, then our reasons must be anchored in the true and the good.
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More about me →I'm a software engineer, mostly in Bitcoin: Lightning payments at Voltage and privacy at Payjoin. I'm learning Ancient Greek, and read history and philosophy.
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