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Creative tools

Projects, experiments, and notes involving creative tools. Follow a topic across otherwise unrelated rabbit holes.

PublishedOct 3, 2026
project

Prompt Builder

From a two-column prompt composer to the saved implementation: controls, generation rules, presets, manual edits, and the character budget.

Documented activity: September 12, 2026
PublishedOct 3, 2026
project / design study

WhackyTech Workbench

A Debian VM plan put activities, a command palette, plain-file state, and recovery at the center of a small Xorg/FVWM3 desktop experiment.

Documented activity: May 16, 2026