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ENGINEERINGToday3 minNEW

I rendered a real airport from open data in plain three.js

Tashkent International, drawn to scale from OpenStreetMap: both runways with their painted markings, the terminals, and a night lighting rig that comes up on the city's own clock. No game engine, n...

build-log3dthree-jsopen-data
ESSAYToday5 minNEW

The Country That Lives Elsewhere

Twenty million people claim Ukrainian descent abroad. An essay on the diaspora's five waves, what a scattered nation is for, and whether this one returns.

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RESEARCHYesterdayNEW

Signed, With Assistance

The AI diligence statement is a new genre. Read across ten disciplines, it turns out to be a signature: not a confession of AI use, but the act of taking authorship of an assisted work.

AuthorshipAI Disclosure
ENGINEERINGYesterday4 minNEW

The site read like an LLM because it was

For a year the prose here read like a machine made it, for the honest reason that a machine often did. So I built a voice-fit meter calibrated on my own pre-model writing, a rewriter that ranks can...

build-logvoice
ENGINEERING3 days ago8 minNEW

How I run parallel AI agents on a 559k-line repo without it rotting

One Next.js repo, half a million lines, several Claude Code sessions a day, ~65 PRs a week. Everyone predicts the same three deaths: slop, rot, and merge hell. The repo is alive anyway, because I s...

build-logagents
ENGINEERING4 days ago5 minNEW

A two-rung gate for AI-tested games

Screenshots are how you catch a game that renders wrong, but a screenshot judged by a language model cannot block a merge. So the games on this site get tested twice: an LLM looks at every game eac...

build-logtestingplaywright
TOOLS6 days ago4 minNEW

I built a podcast production line that pauses exactly once

A voice memo goes in; an edited, captioned, rule-checked episode waits at a human gate. A build log on the new episode production line: an AI editor hired onto a one-episode contract, a free ffmpeg...

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ESSAY6 days ago5 minNEW

I let a rival AI review my site, then shipped every fix in a day

I gave this site's own documentation to a rival AI and told it to find what's wrong. One day later: ten verified issues, nine pull requests, and a set of permanent drift guards, with a human behind...

ai-agentsprocesscode-review
UTILITIES1 week ago3 min

A Claude token counter, no API key required

I loved Simon Willison's Claude token counter, so I built my own for this site with one change: no API key to paste. It counts tokens in text and images, then shows the cost and context-window usag...

utilitiestoolsclaude
TOOLS1 week ago3 min

GraphMy gets a real home

GraphMy (drop in a PDF, get back an interactive knowledge graph) had been sitting in the Lab with no real home. It's a tool, a utility even, so it moved to its rightful shelf in the Utilities hub. ...

toolsaiknowledge-graph
TOOLS1 week ago

Claude Token Counter

Prompt tokens, cost, and context per model

aitokensclaude
TOOLS1 week ago

Page Weight

Weigh a page: bytes, grade, Core Web Vitals, HAR diff

developerdataweb
TOOLS1 week ago

HTML Table Extractor

Paste tables → Markdown, CSV, JSON

converterdatahtml
TOOLS1 week ago4 min

The Workflow Designer is running: a build tour

What the in-house Workflow Designer looks like now that it is shipped: the kanban console, the compose step, the human gate, and what runs after you approve.

toolsworkflowsstudio
GAME2 weeks ago

FRONDS

You are Rob, a curious dill grower. A push-your-luck harvest wrapped in a field guide whose every botanical term is invented, except 'fronds,' which is real. Cut quillage, bank before the plant bolts, and between plants judge the over-confident Guide's claims: real botany, or made up? Expose enough of its fabrications without crying wolf on a real one and the Guide comes apart, a secret ending where it finally comes clean. You grew the actual plant; it only thinks it knows dill.

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