PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / design study
Planning an Endless Sky interface modernization
An Outfitter prototype became a whole-game UI plan, with gameplay parity and separate layout and color references.
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A generational starship mechanic game
A worn generation ship became the setting for an automation game built around machine networks, repair detours, and a small playable Godot workshop.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / design study
Arranging quilt tiles
A concrete three-part quilt layout, with aligned edges, consistent sashing, and a rotation to test.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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Designing a modded skyblock base
A skyblock base grew from an unbuilt floor plan into automation, a cramped service layer, a room retrofit, and recurring power constraints.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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Planning the skyblock platform
A skyblock floor evolved from a 200-block concept into a centered 201×201 concrete plan, with a corrected hub and CSV material counts.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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A hardcore Minecraft modpack
An expert Minecraft pack design moved from campaign decisions into a smaller development instance, with guide-first quests and concrete compatibility tests.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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A reusable development harness
A one-task-at-a-time development workflow exposed gaps in task authority, then changed direction toward a reusable project template.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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Whacky Node-Graph Layer
Separating reusable graph structure from Crushline recipes, consequences, rendering, and runtime evaluation.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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Deep Signal
A native space-strategy prototype where production choices, fleet movement, and a persistent information panel developed through explicit state and UI boundaries.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / experiment
Trying a web interface for The Long Wake
The Long Wake tried a Svelte command interface, achieved working drill-down panels, and then returned to a Godot desktop-workstation direction after repeated layout failures.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / build log
The M3 debug panel
The M3 simulation panel became visible, then exposed a separate problem: its command editor could not be edited.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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The Long Wake
A generation-ship simulation built around fragile knowledge, followed by a long interface search from command board to a clearer Godot workstation.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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The Long Wake: from an idea to a design document
How the no-asset game idea became a generation-ship simulation whose technology can be lost as well as recovered.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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Research OS
A Rust simulator for explicit authority, with capability and policy checks, atomic audit rules, replay experiments, and a concrete Stage 1A failure.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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WhackyDesk
A local AI desktop concept developed around Linux identities, a trusted broker, staged outputs, and evidence that could actually support its security claims.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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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.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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Haunted Blueprint
A horror-game design where the only view of a building is a floor plan that can lie, and sound supplies the missing physical world.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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Ashen Frontier
A survival-game design that moved toward restoring the land, assembling useful systems, and a deliberately smaller first-day slice.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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Forgotten Decks
A generation-ship side-scroller found its identity in close-quarters resistance, fragile shared infrastructure, and the etiquette of a civil war inside a sealed home.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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Bureaucratic Reality Engine
A C++ game-system experiment made official records shape a city’s legal reality, with replay, conflicting authorities, and reversible public-memory decrees.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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Impossible Archive Engine
A C++ fictional-history engine separating hidden causes, unreliable evidence, and changing interpretations, developed through narrow, auditable implementation slices.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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A map for a conversation archive
An Obsidian archive design that splits conversations into durable ideas and keeps productive drift visible.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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PAC-M5 platform experiments
A compact project-instruction platform explored exact manual edits, source fingerprints, validation gates, and self-contained project capsules.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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StrataLedger
A spreadsheet and web-app concept connecting transaction records to priorities, with a three-sheet starting point and a concrete review workflow.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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A layered decision model
A general decision framework became a game about balancing usable possibilities, with weighted priorities, signals, dials, and explicit prototype equations.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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A dark Minecraft block palette
Five material directions for a dark Minecraft build, from ruined deepslate to swamp rot and deep-sea ruins.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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A custom baseball scorecard
A ready-to-print baseball scorecard request became a layout for lineups, innings, pitching, substitutions, and game notes.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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A procedural village game concept
A card-driven village concept with concrete resources, relationships, story templates, and an AI-generated Godot prototype structure.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / recipe note
Recipes that would fit on the page
The rib rub and chicken-and-waffles recipes, plus the paprika mix-up and the attempt to make printable kitchen notes.