Workshop
What the workshop makes, and how far each thing has gone.
On the fire
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Spicilège in development
A local library for bookmarks saved on X and Raindrop: enriched, tagged by a local model, found again by keyword or by question.
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Rhizomes in development
A journal written from work traces, and a searchable archive of past agent conversations that other agents can query.
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Futon Fighters in development
Couch games for up to four players on one screen: Ippon, a one-hit platform duel, and Fourtress, a split-screen first-person fight around a fort.
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Tales of Chinatown in development
A short detective game. Limehouse, 1913: connect clues, doubt what you are told, prepare the night. After Sax Rohmer.
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arsis.dev built, not yet online
The workshop’s own site: a register of what it decides, measures, corrects and abandons.
Next up
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NamerKit in development
A naming studio for macOS: local or remote language models propose names, filters keep the reasons, and the newest mode shows unranked waves to sort by hand.
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Daymon private beta
Where working time actually goes, on a Mac: a local tracker that attributes time to projects and shows what it is unsure about.
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LoopHuntr release preparation, gate 1 of 5 passed
Loops for gravel, road and mountain bikes, hiking and trail running, built on the iPhone from a start point and a distance, with an optional climb. Offline once a zone of France is downloaded.
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Palimpseste version 17, the game is in design
A world and society generator for a game in design: land, settlements, cultures, beliefs and centuries of history, all derived from causes.
Open source
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Appothèque v0.5.1, MIT
A menu bar launcher for the Mac and iOS apps you are building: it rebuilds only when its inputs changed.
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LLMarium open source soon
The local models of a Mac in the menu bar: which MLX engines run, what each process keeps in memory and who launched it, and one click to open a model in a coding agent.
Side projects
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tralala personal use
Variations and little tunes: a personal macOS app that turns a description, a hummed melody or an old song into a track, generated on the Mac with YuE2.
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Slyfari positioning to decide
An iOS browser and an encrypted on-device video library: what you keep stays on the phone.
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Squatcat prototype, moving fast
Training sessions on the iPhone: a programme planned on a calendar, each session played step by step with pause and resume, then its summary.
On the shelf
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Syntype v0.1 corrected; v0.1.1 waiting
An open benchmark of tabular models on ecological data. Version 0.1 was corrected in public the day it came out.
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Layon interviews not started
An ecological data tool that does not exist yet: four hypotheses about what would help ecologists, to be tested through interviews first.
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BackShelves in use
Browse and restore backups from Backblaze B2, SFTP and local folders, down to a single table of a PostgreSQL archive.
Commissions
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Admissions platform in production, worked on daily
Multi-school admissions: from the application to enrolment, documents, payments and interviews included.
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Campus platform in production, worked on daily
The everyday system of the same group’s schools: timetables, grades, absences, admissions.
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Support assistant being validated in daily work
Reads an application’s logs and proposes fixes, each with the evidence it rests on.
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Ecological data platform active
Plugins that take raw field inventories all the way to a published website.
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Biodiversity database maintained
A regional biodiversity database: species records, taxonomy and maps.
Prototypes of this site
Every direction tried since February, kept and still open. The site itself is one of the workshop’s objects.
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living lines of thought: formulation and its pile, refusals, experiments, reading
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Bibliography with the timeline layerfixed: this site
determinations, re-checks, a replayed benchmark
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Five styles of the registerfour set aside
index, bibliography, plain text, editorial, timeline
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The registerform adopted
every entry dated and stating how it is known
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Second round: the living workshopset aside: too close to pastiche
hearth, shelves, gazette, notebook
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First round: Unified, Notebook, Gridset aside
four pages each, centred on the person
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Tales of Chinatown, store page reviewed
the Steam page, as a tab of the project page
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Designs without references, Z to AV47 variants in all, not published yet
Gregorian chant, portolan, soil profile, seed packets, preprint, man page, Swiss grid, measured forms…
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Field notebook variants K to Ynot published yet
notebook, cyanotype, edge-notched cards, scriptorium, Minitel, khipu, tree rings…
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Homepage variants A to J8 variants, not published yet
catalogue, narrative links, workshop board, index, book page…