A working document / not a portfolio

# Things I’m
figuring out.

A field journal from the overlap between software, games, design, and the particular kind of curiosity that makes a small idea become a whole project.

open the notebook

## Today’s question

Can software be powerful without feeling heavy? Can a tool have a point of view? Can a website make you want to stay a little longer?

still investigating →
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01 / selected entries

## Recent evidence.

A few artifacts from the workbench. Some are polished. Some are still warm.

build logjan / 2026

### One home for every emulator.

OmniEmu started with the deeply unglamorous problem of opening fifteen apps to play fifteen games. It became a little operating system for the collection.

inspect →
long-term questionin progress

### What if Electron left?

Gelectron is an attempt to keep the nice parts of web apps and lose the several-hundred-megabyte apology.

follow the thread →
community noteongoing

### A list that became a place.

FEDL began as rankings. The interesting part turned out to be the people who keep showing up to make the list harder.

visit the list →
side experiment2024—

### Making room for play.

Small browser games, rhythm experiments, and a growing library of things made because a blank page felt like an invitation.

browse the games →
02 / the route so far

## A map of
becoming.

The path is less linear than this makes it look. That’s part of the fun.

2008—

### Curiosity enters the chat.

Games, computers, and the early suspicion that anything on a screen could probably be taken apart.

2021—22

### The web becomes a workshop.

Learning by building: sites, games, experiments, and far too many tabs open at once.

2024—25

### Tools start taking over.

Emulators, local AI, macOS utilities, and the eternal question of why the computer makes simple things feel complicated.

now

### Make it feel good.

Less shipping for the sake of shipping. More attention to the tiny decisions that make a tool feel like it belongs in someone’s life.

03 / objects on the desk

## The kit.

The software is only half the story. These are the tools, ideas, and recurring obsessions currently within arm’s reach.

code / repositories github ↗ collective / design diskette labs ↗ tools / setup the current stack ↗ signal / hello send a note ↗