Kinetic Painter: layer and lock time
A painting interface where hands and words traverse causality, and a perfect bloom can become a layer in time.
Lynn Cole / Laboratory
Laboratory
Experiments, research notes, mad science, and things in progress.
Kinetic Painter: make the paint move
A canvas, liquid pigment, gravity, and a first experiment in making the paint move.
Wordling 5.2: WordPerfect on Linux
A WordPerfect 5.1-inspired writing environment for Linux, built in Go with Bubble Tea, with file compatibility and PDF support in view.
PHLAME: lessons from building an AI-native language
What I'm doing is training a small neural network to behave like a compiler.
Forking Flash before Adobe
A Flash 5 reconstruction, two failed approaches, and the documentation-curation process that finally got the movies compiling.
A deterministic RAD generator with an agentic backend
A low-code prototype with three tests: human control, token use, and whether a small local model can follow the workflow.
What Glamin taught me about AI-native language design
Glamin taught me that fluidity belongs on the right layer. Learned embeddings and a more familiar source language suggest a different design.
Hubnot’s first operational alpha
Hubnot’s first operational alpha keeps signed collaboration records and deliberate agent memory in Git, alongside the code.
Rethinking Glamin around learned embeddings
Mutable vector indexes made Glamin programs too easy to break and too hard to debug. Learned embeddings offer another path for the experiment.
A self-hosted DeepSeek security audit
A self-hosted DeepSeek audit checks templates and generated applications for malicious behavior, separating observed quality problems from the malware question.
Lokshen: ungoogle your noodle
A search engine for indie creators, with anti-SEO editorial rules, a trivia pirate, and a classifier and reviewer that argue over the intake.
Ruby Tumbler: guarding implementation identity
Ruby Tumbler’s next performance problem lives between methods: guards, dynamic dispatch, fallback and the cost of preserving implementation identity.