I gave my AI assistant a human brain.
JoeBro is a native macOS AI workspace that runs entirely on your machine. No cloud, no account, no telemetry, no third-party packages. Stdlib Python backend, memories in a local SQLite file. Nothing leaves your machine.
It builds up a picture of you as you chat: your projects, your preferences, the things you keep returning to. For a while that lived in a list, it was boring. So I rebuilt it as a graph.
Every memory is a node. Related memories cluster together, pulled by a physics simulation. Line length is conceptual distance. Node size is how connected a memory is — your biggest nodes are the things your assistant keeps coming back to. Hover any node and the full memory text pops up. Right-click to edit, pin, or delete.
The whole UI is liquid glass and you set a wallpaper behind it. The graph floats over whatever image you drop in — nodes, lines, hover cards, all of it. If your wallpaper is moody it looks stunning. Redditors who care about their setup will want to screenshot it immediately.
For me, seeing one project dominate the map as a massive hub node was a strange moment. It knows me. Not because someone trained it on my data, but because I *told* it things and it remembered. That's a different feeling entirely.
Stdlib Python, SwiftUI Canvas, hand-rolled force simulation, GPLv3. Fully offline. Point it at Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint and you're running.