A low-pressure place for thoughts, write-ups, and things I learned. Newest first.
I wanted an asciifier I'd actually use — color and grayscale, detailed glyph ramps, copy/PNG/ANSI export — without uploading my images to someone else's server. So I built one. It runs entirely in the browser: the image is drawn to a tiny canvas, one pixel per character cell, then each cell's brightness picks a glyph from a ramp.
The whole thing is a few hundred lines of vanilla JS and zero dependencies. Try it: open the Asciifier
This site used to be a six-service Docker/Flask stack with a couple of half-finished AI tools. It was overkill for a personal site and mostly didn't work. I tore it down to what it should have been all along: static HTML/CSS/JS served straight from nginx — fast, boring, and bulletproof.
Now it's a central hub I actually like: a real terminal you can type commands into, an asciifier, this notes page, and a /uses page. Built it the way I build everything these days — by pairing with AI and reviewing hard.