A personal archive of curiosity

Good Ideas Require
Messy Desks.

A notebook of things I got curious enough to
build, break, learn, and revisit.

follow the interesting bit.
On these pages

Things built.
Things broken.
Things still figuring
themselves out.

CODE / KITCHEN / CURIOSITY
01

From the notebook

All notes
PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / recipe note

Minestrone in stages

The full minestrone recipe, prosciutto and tomato-paste substitutions, and the stopping points for cooking across two days.

Documented activity: September 24, 2026 – September 25, 2026
PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / experiment

A thin-client Linux experiment

A network-boot question became a comparison of separate remote desktops and shared physical desktops, ending with a usable Linux thin-client session and working audio.

Documented activity: September 20, 2026 – September 26, 2026
02

Selected projects

All projects
experiment
A stone-walled Minecraft room with machinery, ducts, and rows of chests.

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.

Documented activity: July 28, 2026 – September 14, 2026

Project

Deep Signal

A native space-strategy prototype where production choices, fleet movement, and a persistent information panel developed through explicit state and UI boundaries.

Documented activity: June 1, 2026 – September 22, 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

Project
The Long Wake M3 debug panel, with state, command validation, resolution trace, and save/export areas.

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.

Documented activity: May 28, 2026 – June 1, 2026

03

Explore the mess

it’s all connected. probably.
The longer thread

From the archive

Old questions. Earlier attempts.
A few doors left open.

Explore the timeline
2026Minestrone in stages2026Planning an Endless Sky interface modernization2026A thin-client Linux experiment