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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Camera Triangle

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Good friction

Monday, April 21st, 2025 at 9:39 PM

ScreenScreen

Monday, April 21st, 2025 at 8:42 PM

Camera blocks and blend modes

Monday, April 21st, 2025 at 1:44 PM

I read (listened) to Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice recently and then went back to the BBC audio versions of a bunch of the George Smiley novels. It's fascinating Harkaway can write Smiley so well when the tone of his own novels (which I also like) are so different. read on scrawl

Sunday, April 20th, 2025 at 10:58 AM

Working on bringing scrawl back

Thursday, April 17th, 2025 at 9:51 PM
GIF workflow and Niri

My Linux GIF workflow is back up and working, and I've been enjoying Niri.

Opening and moving windows in NiriOpening and moving windows in Niri

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Dynamicland

Friday, April 11th, 2025 at 6:04 PM

Carly Ayres writing about Danger TestingCarly Ayres writing about Danger Testing

From https://carly.substack.com/p/is-it-a-product-or-a-performance

This is interesting - seems good to place next to 'homecooked meal' apps - apps as cultural artifact...

Thursday, April 10th, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Scrawl

As part of my general blog tidying-up I'm revisiting this website for rough writing I put together: https://scrawl.grantcuster.com

Screenshot of ScrawlScreenshot of Scrawl

In some ways I think this is the precursor to the Tabletop series I've been doing. The design of it really did make me feel like it was OK to write quickly. I think maybe I want to start writing in it again, though I'd want it to sit nicely along with garden.

Thursday, April 10th, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Prompting and writing

Friday, April 4th, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Moving the Garden

Post editor with live previewsPost editor with live previews

Making steady progress on moving this blog over to a React app built on Waku for server-side rendering. Finally I'll have live post previews that look exactly (not 98%) like they do when published.

Monday, March 31st, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Process

Friday, March 28th, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Ghibli

Thursday, March 27th, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Vibe-coding and mental models

Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Communication & Latency

Thinking about the One Unbreakable Law video from Casey MuratoriThinking about the One Unbreakable Law video from Casey Muratori

Sunday, March 23rd, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Constraint Systems

Did a little reset of the https://constraint.systems page. Using gruvbox and Departure Mono. Switched off Hugo and redid it with React/Vite because I'm just much more used to it these days. I'd kind of like to do a similar revamp of this site and grantcuster.com... Spring cleaning.

Sunday, March 23rd, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Tabletop

Tabletop used with a tabletopTabletop used with a tabletop Crop and download images from your webcam.

https://tabletop.constraint.systems

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Saturday, March 22nd, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Computer aesthetics

Monday, March 17th, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Custom desktop panel

I've been searching for a reason/excuse to try Clay (and by extension C), and I just realized making a custom Wayland desktop panel (like this Rust-based one) is plausible.

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