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Slowly going out on a limb. Making experimental creative tools on the web at http://constraint.systems. He/him. grantcuster.com
Testing/previewing a thing: cosine.constraint.systems/text/293929f...
If you want to explore and/or give feedback I'll take it.
If you want to explore and/or give feedback I'll take it.
We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a s... - Cosine
We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them ori...
cosine.constraint.systems
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Testing/previewing a thing: cosine.constraint.systems/text/293929f...
If you want to explore and/or give feedback I'll take it.
If you want to explore and/or give feedback I'll take it.
This looks like a great pairing with the recent string of Wookash podcasts on C/game UI. Including a dearImGui one podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
November 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This looks like a great pairing with the recent string of Wookash podcasts on C/game UI. Including a dearImGui one podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Visualize all the pages (of Byte magazine in this case)
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Visualize all the pages (of Byte magazine in this case)
🌱 Making:
Exploring an "everything is embedded" mini/fake social network.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-11-08-53-36
Exploring an "everything is embedded" mini/fake social network.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-11-08-53-36
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🌱 Making:
Exploring an "everything is embedded" mini/fake social network.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-11-08-53-36
Exploring an "everything is embedded" mini/fake social network.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-11-08-53-36
tools for directing your own attention
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
tools for directing your own attention
Reposted by grant
idea: Turbo-C-style initials
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
idea: Turbo-C-style initials
🌱 Making: Cosine WIP
Working on a stripped down "embed anything and see its neighbors" prototype.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-06-20-16-26-cosine-wip
Working on a stripped down "embed anything and see its neighbors" prototype.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-06-20-16-26-cosine-wip
November 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
🌱 Making: Cosine WIP
Working on a stripped down "embed anything and see its neighbors" prototype.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-06-20-16-26-cosine-wip
Working on a stripped down "embed anything and see its neighbors" prototype.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-06-20-16-26-cosine-wip
I've been listening to a lot of playlists lately and wanting a way to learn more about the currently playing artist without pulling out my phone. I put together a little raspberry pi setup to sit on our shelves and display info about the current playing artist.
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I've been listening to a lot of playlists lately and wanting a way to learn more about the currently playing artist without pulling out my phone. I put together a little raspberry pi setup to sit on our shelves and display info about the current playing artist.
I made a (Spotify) web player for the excellent Herb Sundays (herbsundays.substack.com) playlist series.
It's focused on surfacing a random playlist from the series. I've been using it to put something on in the morning. It's nice to have hand-curated playlists with some intention to them.
It's focused on surfacing a random playlist from the series. I've been using it to put something on in the morning. It's nice to have hand-curated playlists with some intention to them.
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I made a (Spotify) web player for the excellent Herb Sundays (herbsundays.substack.com) playlist series.
It's focused on surfacing a random playlist from the series. I've been using it to put something on in the morning. It's nice to have hand-curated playlists with some intention to them.
It's focused on surfacing a random playlist from the series. I've been using it to put something on in the morning. It's nice to have hand-curated playlists with some intention to them.
🌱 Tabletop: Problem solving
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-10-30-13-50-51-problem-solving
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-10-30-13-50-51-problem-solving
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🌱 Tabletop: Problem solving
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-10-30-13-50-51-problem-solving
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-10-30-13-50-51-problem-solving
This platform looks fascinating.
We're excited to reveal Strata, a strategy game we developed for Board, a new game console that blends physical and digital play: board.fun
In Strata, you use physical 3D blocks to claim territory and outmaneuver opponents.
Tetris meets Chess.
In Strata, you use physical 3D blocks to claim territory and outmaneuver opponents.
Tetris meets Chess.
October 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This platform looks fascinating.
Stitched together some Neovim autocmds with Niri window commands so that the app window is bound to the special "app" buffer position and size. One step closer to NeovimOS.
October 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Stitched together some Neovim autocmds with Niri window commands so that the app window is bound to the special "app" buffer position and size. One step closer to NeovimOS.
Thinking about reconfiguring my window manager setup to have an always-open terminal on the left. To serve as doc and navigation maybe.
October 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thinking about reconfiguring my window manager setup to have an always-open terminal on the left. To serve as doc and navigation maybe.
Lately been really wanting to put together a dedicated device (cyber/writer deck-like) and have the entire interface be one document -- lots of patterns here that could be interesting.
This article is now public! Link in reply.
I recreated Jef Raskin's 1987 'Canon Cat' user environment and observed myself as I lived in it for a week.
Implementation details, surprises, and more in the essay.
(Why touch grass when you can read 3.2k words on user environments?)
I recreated Jef Raskin's 1987 'Canon Cat' user environment and observed myself as I lived in it for a week.
Implementation details, surprises, and more in the essay.
(Why touch grass when you can read 3.2k words on user environments?)
October 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Lately been really wanting to put together a dedicated device (cyber/writer deck-like) and have the entire interface be one document -- lots of patterns here that could be interesting.
🌱 DIY Writer Decks
From https://www.writerdeck.org/list-of-diy-writerdecks.html
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-10-14-11-42-27-diy-writer-decks
From https://www.writerdeck.org/list-of-diy-writerdecks.html
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-10-14-11-42-27-diy-writer-decks
October 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Reposted by grant
By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.
October 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.
October 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
More experiments with Apriltags:
a color-picker where
x=red
y=green
rotation=blue
freeform physical slider feels interesting
a color-picker where
x=red
y=green
rotation=blue
freeform physical slider feels interesting
September 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
More experiments with Apriltags:
a color-picker where
x=red
y=green
rotation=blue
freeform physical slider feels interesting
a color-picker where
x=red
y=green
rotation=blue
freeform physical slider feels interesting
🌱 Tabletop: Levels of perception
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-09-26-20-36-35-levels-of-perception
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-09-26-20-36-35-levels-of-perception
September 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
🌱 Tabletop: Levels of perception
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-09-26-20-36-35-levels-of-perception
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-09-26-20-36-35-levels-of-perception
Book-to-soundtrack experiment - a projector setup where I send the book image off to an LLM for recommendations and then play with Spotify.
Meant to be kind of like putting on a record but for objects. (I clipped out the loading times.)
Meant to be kind of like putting on a record but for objects. (I clipped out the loading times.)
September 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Book-to-soundtrack experiment - a projector setup where I send the book image off to an LLM for recommendations and then play with Spotify.
Meant to be kind of like putting on a record but for objects. (I clipped out the loading times.)
Meant to be kind of like putting on a record but for objects. (I clipped out the loading times.)
I got a mirror to experiment with the projector
September 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I got a mirror to experiment with the projector
Now I'm thinking about SandScape tangible.media.mit.edu/project/sand...
September 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Now I'm thinking about SandScape tangible.media.mit.edu/project/sand...
Trying out april tags. Thinking about how it could complement hand tracking and vision models.
This is using github.com/arenaxr/apri... and I know what april tags are because of folk.computer.
This is using github.com/arenaxr/apri... and I know what april tags are because of folk.computer.
September 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Trying out april tags. Thinking about how it could complement hand tracking and vision models.
This is using github.com/arenaxr/apri... and I know what april tags are because of folk.computer.
This is using github.com/arenaxr/apri... and I know what april tags are because of folk.computer.
Getting a feel for projector and hand-tracking possibilities by experimenting with a color picker. I can use pointer finger without pinch if I give it a path where it doesn't have to go through other things - kind of like a maze.
September 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Getting a feel for projector and hand-tracking possibilities by experimenting with a color picker. I can use pointer finger without pinch if I give it a path where it doesn't have to go through other things - kind of like a maze.
Trying out hand-tracking triggered buttons and some simple LLM calls. There are definite limits imposed by hand-tracking and projector display - but they're kind of interesting ones.
September 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Trying out hand-tracking triggered buttons and some simple LLM calls. There are definite limits imposed by hand-tracking and projector display - but they're kind of interesting ones.