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Napkin Films

Animated short films produced entirely from code: no GPU, no AI video generators, no stock media. Stick-figure performances, multi-voice AI narration, and original ChipForge scores, built with Python (PIL) and HTML5 Canvas. This is the running catalog, in the order the films shipped.

56 parts

Cornerstone explainer: Why I Build Creative Technology

The Decan Log (journal entries)

The 36 decans of the year, each a 10-day cycle anchored to a bright fixed star, journaled in real time. Decanal practice in operation, one star at a time. The framework is documented in The Decan Log book; this is the running record of the practice.

31 parts

Cornerstone explainer: What Is Decanal Journaling?

Loops and Legibility

Eight essays on the automation that runs underneath one person's days, and what it took to see it whole. Typing the loops, drawing them as a graph, the rule of one writer, the stack underneath, and the question a loop cannot answer. Written as it happened, July to October 2026.

8 parts

Cornerstone explainer: Domain Cartography

The AI Development Revolution

A seven-part series, written in real time across 2025, documenting what it felt like to live through the transformation of software engineering as agent mode arrived. Not the hype, not the theory: the actual experience of working with AI at production stakes, and the patterns that emerged after months of running real systems this way.

7 parts

Cornerstone explainer: How AI Is Changing Software Engineering

Reading the Cybernetics Canon

Reading the founding texts of cybernetics in order, guesses first: the list written before the books were opened, the primers built so the reading would stick, and what each work actually said.

3 parts