Became Shio.
The problem
Local models ran on the Mac, but the phone had no honest way to talk to them.
The approach
A chat client for iPhone and Mac that talks to Ollama on your own machine, nothing in between: no account, no relay, no cloud.
What we learned
Chatting with a local model is not the product; reaching the machine is. As everything, Ollama included, moved to agents, the question changed, and the answer became Shio.
Next
None. Its ideas live in Shio; pasture.sh stays up as the record.
- Status
- Evolved into Shio
- Runs on
- iPhone and Mac
- Since
- 2026; shelved in June 2026
- Built with
- Swift and SwiftUI; Ollama on the Mac
- Signature
- Never announced, never shipped, fully documented
The print
A pasture
An old horse in a snowy field. The print is called Vieillesse, old age.
1931.