Slow Bloom: a meditation app that doesn't want anything from you
A meditative garden for iOS with no notifications, no analytics, and no interest in your attention. Tap to gather light. Grow flora. Watch the numbers fade as beauty emerges.…
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Making Concurrency Visible: Gerbil Playground v1.2
Gerbil Playground v1.2 adds an actor message log that makes concurrency visible: watch spawned threads exchange messages in real time. Plus ... embeddable mode for dropping live REPLs into documentation, a mobile layout, and resizable panes.…
A Playground for Gerbil Scheme
Gerbil Scheme compiles to native code, and has an actor-oriented concurrency mode. Here's trygerbil.dev: a browser-based REPL backed by real containers, with session persistence, guided examples, and a replay system that survives container sleep.…
Patchwork
A ritual from when my kids were small: flip the menu over, draw a grid, fill squares with crayons while waiting for food. I wanted to turn that into an app. Here's what I built instead.…
Smelter 0.2: Common Lisp Scripts That Just Work
Wanted to share Smelter, a self-contained binary for running Lisp scripts without the usual setup overhead. It started as a Coalton runner, but 0.2 adds native Common Lisp mode. Generally meant to solve "just running CL" (i.e. without SBCL images, or configuring Quicklisp).…
Developing StoryWeaver
… or, co-creating an AI-powered interactive fiction platform, using a multi-AI development approach What I (“we”) Built StoryWeaver is an AI-powered “Choose Your Own Adventure” platform, which can…
Coalton Playground "V2", now with sharing and snippets
Following up on the initial version here, so read that first. tl;dr: Coalton is a statically-typed dialect library for/within Common Lisp. You get to have your ML cake and eat it with the parenthe…
Janus v2.0
* I've released Janus v2.0, a native macOS AI chat application with dual provider support. You can download it here. Why Build This * The original Janus prototype solved a specific problem: I…
Coalton Playground: Type-Safe Lisp in Your Browser
I wanted to share a side project I've been tinkering with for a while and finally got around to shipping: Coalton Playground - basically a web-based REPL for Coalton, which is this interesting sta…
Playing with Julia
Google Colab now supports Julia, so I gave it a spin Take a look here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1t18zqNOqQujzn2czr-bMILf6vHhLxXtY?usp=sharing Then make your own! (I plan to use this…
From Idea to App Store: a 1-month iOS project
I had this nagging little idea for an app for a while. I wanted a simple, visual way to keep memos to myself – a mix of images and text – always readily available, on my phone's home screens. Pr…
Replit as personal computing.
The dream of “deployable” personal development I’ve been experimenting a lot with Replit, and found their “Core” subscription quite valuable. My former understanding of it (from a few years ago) as a…