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Resistance-Based Development — Direction Over Plan

13 projects in 46 days, zero plan documents. What actually drives velocity isn't agile or sprints — it's signal-driven adaptation, resistance as information, and direction held constant while everything else changes.

April 2026

Message Mommy — Protocol Translator, Not Tone Police

A bidirectional communication translator born from social fatigue. Three pipelines — analyze, audit, rewrite — a 350-line prompt contract, and a noir detective who reads between your lines.

April 2026

Forget Me Not — A Task App That Feels Like a Place

GroundControl's most-used feature, extracted into a zero-server PWA. 11 themes with their own animations, urgency bars that pulse, and 16 KB gzipped.

March 2026

Room+1 — The Internet Has a Million Rooms but No Commons

From concept doc to live multi-tenant platform in 20 hours. Discord OAuth, adjacent rooms, BYODB, a full MySpace-style theme engine, and an open protocol spec.

March 2026

Executive Functions — An OS Made of Text Files

Nine plain text files, ~490 lines, no code. An operating system for AI agents built on convention, not configuration. Neurodivergent-first.

March 2026

YAMA-BRUH — One Prompt, One Yamaha

One prompt, 17 minutes to first build, 6 hours to a full Yamaha PSS-470 clone with 99 FM presets, MIDI, drums, and GLSL shaders.

March 2026

Chat Daddy — Bare Metal Bespoke

7.4 megabytes of Rust, zero frameworks, and the end of losing your AI conversations. A networked transcript viewer that installs itself.

March 2026

The Behavioral Envelope

What happens when you stop telling the agent how to code and start telling it what must be true. Tests as executable specification, validated across two independent AI agents.

March 2026

PocketWave — A Love Letter to Dead Hardware

Six hours, one dead handheld, and the stubbornness to make it sing. A tape looper built overnight on a discontinued PocketCHIP.

March 2026

wavelang — An Agent-Authored DSL

What happens when you let the machine design a language for itself. A self-authored DSL for AI agent task orchestration.

March 2026

Context-Aware Session Splitting

Why AI coding sessions degrade over time, and a slash command pattern for knowing when to hand off to a fresh chat.

March 2026

130 Sketches, 6 Years, Zero Frameworks

From p5.js tutorials to 140+ vanilla canvas sketches — the creative coding journey behind the art on this site.

March 2026

Build Your Own Audio Asset Dashboard

How we cataloged 20,000+ audio files across 5 drives into a searchable, playable web dashboard.

March 2026