Documented activitySeptember 24, 2026 – September 25, 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.
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2026
September 2026 · dated entries
Documented activitySeptember 22, 2026 – September 23, 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.
Documented activitySeptember 20, 2026 – September 26, 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 activitySeptember 18, 2026
project / experiment
A local AI workspace with LibreChat and Ollama
A local AI setup narrowed to a concrete Docker-to-host networking problem: the model answered directly, while the container path needed a firewall change.
Documented activitySeptember 15, 2026 – September 17, 2026
note / investigation
Assembling a Hytale technology-mod collection
A proposed technology-mod stack became a practical test of what was installed, enabled for a world, and actually visible in the workbench.
Documented activitySeptember 12, 2026
note / learning note
Inside the Prompt Builder source
A closer reading of the saved generation engine, configuration state, source rules, manual-draft recovery, and browser storage.
Documented activitySeptember 12, 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 activitySeptember 11, 2026 – September 12, 2026
project / prototype
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.
Documented activitySeptember 10, 2026
note / design study
Music for an unreachable future
The arrangement behind Far Future Unobtainable: a reaching motif, D-minor colors, four instrumental layers, and an unresolved ending.
Documented activitySeptember 7, 2026
note / build log
A built room and the next power constraint
A compact processing room led into reactor expansion and a new constraint: keeping lava production ahead of demand.
August 2026 · dated entries
Documented activityAugust 22, 2026
note / design study
Arranging quilt tiles
A concrete three-part quilt layout, with aligned edges, consistent sashing, and a rotation to test.
July 2026 · dated entries
Documented activityJuly 28, 2026 – September 14, 2026
project / experiment
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 activityJuly 28, 2026 – July 29, 2026
note / design study
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.
Documented activityJuly 20, 2026 – September 6, 2026
project
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.
June 2026 · dated entries
Documented activityJune 21, 2026 – June 22, 2026
project / experiment
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.
Documented activityJune 8, 2026 – June 18, 2026
project
Whacky Node-Graph Layer
Separating reusable graph structure from Crushline recipes, consequences, rendering, and runtime evaluation.
Documented activityJune 8, 2026 – June 15, 2026
project
Whacky Platform Layer
A Linux-native C11 platform layer grew out of custom node-graph UI work, with narrow contracts for windows, input, drawing, files, and replay.
Documented activityJune 7, 2026 – June 8, 2026
project
Odysseus
Exploring a self-hosted AI workspace led to authorization hardening, blocking CI, local release checks, and a first-run setup test that exposed a missing-directory problem.
Documented activityJune 5, 2026 – June 19, 2026
project
Crushline
A node-based factory game built around competing production routes, useful waste, machine upgrades, and the freedom to build an inefficient line.
Documented activityJune 1, 2026 – September 22, 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.
May 2026 · dated entries
Documented activityMay 31, 2026 – June 1, 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.
Documented activityMay 30, 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.
Documented activityMay 28, 2026 – June 1, 2026
project
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 activityMay 28, 2026
note / design study
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.
Documented activityMay 25, 2026
project / design study
A true-beginner Vintage Story video
Planning a first-day Vintage Story guide around the things a new player should be able to do before nightfall.
Documented activityMay 23, 2026 – May 25, 2026
project / experiment
Pixel Evolution
A browser pixel experiment grew into a C++ ecology sandbox with inherited traits, grazing, local nutrients, CSV telemetry, and measured performance bottlenecks.
Documented activityMay 22, 2026 – May 23, 2026
project
Research OS
A Rust simulator for explicit authority, with capability and policy checks, atomic audit rules, replay experiments, and a concrete Stage 1A failure.
Documented activityMay 21, 2026 – May 23, 2026
project / experiment
An AI agent in a disposable VM
A personal lab for watching how an ordinary sudo-capable agent handled normal Linux tasks, including malformed actions and a suspected loop.
Documented activityMay 17, 2026 – June 7, 2026
project
WhackyDesk
A local AI desktop concept developed around Linux identities, a trusted broker, staged outputs, and evidence that could actually support its security claims.
Documented activityMay 16, 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 activityMay 15, 2026
project / experiment
Finding my way around ComfyUI
From a short image-to-video reel to a basic text-to-image graph, with the actual nodes, settings, and failures that shaped the experiment.
Documented activityMay 14, 2026 – May 27, 2026
project
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.
Documented activityMay 13, 2026 – May 14, 2026
note / build log
A Linux From Scratch build attempt
Building Linux From Scratch in a VM: host checks, the cross-toolchain, chroot, package corrections, and test results that were not uniformly clean.
Documented activityMay 11, 2026 – May 12, 2026
project / learning note
Making a Blender course more usable
Testing a twenty-module Blender course exposed a basic problem: an absolute beginner needs exact actions and visible checks, not a longer outline.
Documented activityMay 8, 2026 – May 13, 2026
project / design study
Ashen Frontier
A survival-game design that moved toward restoring the land, assembling useful systems, and a deliberately smaller first-day slice.
Documented activityMay 8, 2026 – May 10, 2026
project / design study
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.
Documented activityMay 4, 2026 – May 6, 2026
project
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.
Documented activityMay 3, 2026 – May 17, 2026
project
Impossible Archive Engine
A C++ fictional-history engine separating hidden causes, unreliable evidence, and changing interpretations, developed through narrow, auditable implementation slices.
Documented activityMay 2, 2026 – May 3, 2026
project / design study
A map for a conversation archive
An Obsidian archive design that splits conversations into durable ideas and keeps productive drift visible.
April 2026 · dated entries
Documented activityApril 27, 2026 – May 1, 2026
project
PAC-M5 platform experiments
A compact project-instruction platform explored exact manual edits, source fingerprints, validation gates, and self-contained project capsules.
Documented activityApril 26, 2026 – April 27, 2026
project / prototype
Lines of Solice
A Python prototype explored identity through player actions, while schema mismatches exposed the need to validate the links between actions and projects.
Documented activityApril 22, 2026 – May 2, 2026
project
StrataLedger
A spreadsheet and web-app concept connecting transaction records to priorities, with a three-sheet starting point and a concrete review workflow.
Documented activityApril 19, 2026 – April 21, 2026
project / experiment
Organizing an Obsidian archive
An archive design that preserves topic drift, separates transcripts from concept notes, and keeps source dates distinct from import dates.
Documented activityApril 18, 2026 – April 21, 2026
project / design study
A layered decision model
A general decision framework became a game about balancing usable possibilities, with weighted priorities, signals, dials, and explicit prototype equations.
March 2026 · dated entries
Documented activityMarch 7, 2026
note / design study
A dark Minecraft block palette
Five material directions for a dark Minecraft build, from ruined deepslate to swamp rot and deep-sea ruins.
February 2026 · dated entries
Documented activityFebruary 4, 2026 – May 1, 2026
note / learning note
Practicing Bisaya
Actual Bisaya practice: greetings, reusable sentence patterns, my corrections, and a compact phrase sheet.
January 2026 · dated entries
Documented activityJanuary 11, 2026
note / experiment
When breading would not stick
A failed coating led to the corrected flour–egg–crumb method, a thin-chop recipe, and a cooking-time table.
2025
December 2025 · dated entries
Documented activityDecember 26, 2025
note / recipe note
Potluck wings for a small air fryer
Honey-butter-garlic wings for a five-quart air fryer, with the finishing sauce, batch schedule, and dry-brine variation.
October 2025 · dated entries
Documented activityOctober 31, 2025
note / design study
A custom baseball scorecard
A ready-to-print baseball scorecard request became a layout for lineups, innings, pitching, substitutions, and game notes.
Documented activityOctober 20, 2025
note / design study
Acoustic music for short videos
A simple acoustic background-track brief: short, instrumental, loopable, and scoped to the videos it would accompany.
Documented activityOctober 19, 2025
note / experiment
Peach syrup that would not thicken
The peach-syrup formula, a batch that stayed thin, and the ratios discussed for an eight-cup pitcher of iced tea.
September 2025 · dated entries
Documented activitySeptember 1, 2025
note / recipe note
A Filipino-style salmon draft
The soy-garlic and calamansi salmon recipe I chose to keep, with ingredients, pan sequence, and serving ideas.
August 2025 · dated entries
Documented activityAugust 14, 2025
project / design study
A procedural village game concept
A card-driven village concept with concrete resources, relationships, story templates, and an AI-generated Godot prototype structure.
February 2025 · dated entries
Documented activityFebruary 24, 2025
note / design study
Looking for a knight sprite sheet
A ten-frame knight sprite brief specified animation counts, layout, palette, and consistency, but never reached a verified finished sheet.
Documented activityFebruary 23, 2025
project / learning note
An SDL2 agent-model sketch
A single-file C/SDL2 draft models one hundred moving agents with position, velocity, and simple boundary bounces.
January 2025 · dated entries
Documented activityJanuary 11, 2025
note / design study
A conversational curiosity script
A proposed half-hour curiosity video became an exercise in changing a lecture-like script into a relaxed conversation.
2024
July 2024 · dated entries
Documented activityJuly 6, 2024
note / investigation
Checking a wildflower identification
A blue wildflower photograph led to a tentative Penstemon identification and a list of alternatives to compare.
May 2024 · dated entries
Documented activityMay 26, 2024 – May 28, 2024
project / experiment
An interactive dystopian story
A turn-by-turn science-fiction story changed from surveillance and resistance into unstable realities, time travel, loss, and an altered future.
Documented activityMay 26, 2024
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.
Documented activityMay 25, 2024
note / recipe note
Refining a yellow curry recipe
The full curry-paste and curry recipe, including the chili reduction and the missing paste-dose correction.
Documented activityMay 22, 2024
project / design study
Dark rose fantasy draft
A dark-fantasy writing experiment built a cursed garden around one red rose, then revised the hero’s battle to include fear and apparent defeat.
Documented activityMay 21, 2024 – February 8, 2025
project / design study
A hive-city story world
Building Hive Sigma-9 around three social levels, then following Lira from scavenger sketches toward a narrated story.
Documented activityMay 21, 2024
project
Neon Shadow
A humane-AI science-fiction brief evolved into Sam Hunter, ancient technology, corporate pursuit, and the opening of Neon Shadow.
March 2024 · dated entries
Documented activityMarch 17, 2024
note / recipe note
Cold-rest pizza dough
A two-pizza bread-flour formula with an overnight refrigerator rest, and the changes from the original warm-rise draft.
2023
November 2023 · dated entries
Documented activityNovember 19, 2023
note / learning note
Early game-code sketches
Three generated game sketches moved from a console character to an SDL rectangle and a rough C++ room-and-combat model.
Documented activityNovember 19, 2023
note / learning note
From operating systems to an SDL sketch
An oversized operating-system request narrowed into a small C++ wrapper that opened an SDL window and drew one rectangle.
October 2023 · dated entries
Documented activityOctober 22, 2023
note / design study
Trying a surreal image prompt
Two small surreal-image ideas: a saxophone-playing penguin in a cheese balloon, and a rubber duck conducting vegetables.
September 2023 · dated entries
Documented activitySeptember 10, 2023
note / experiment
Guitar riffs and jazz chords
Two small assistant-generated guitar sketches: a repeated single-note riff and a sixteen-bar jazz chord sequence.
Documented activitySeptember 4, 2023
note / learning note
First steps in Tagalog
The actual starter phrases from my first Tagalog exchange, from greetings and thanks to a few everyday questions.