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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
Infinite loading - need to do some offloading to smooth it out i think
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
3D blog
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Codecity
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 AM
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Blogworld
November 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
New from me on constraint.systems:

Cosine lets you embed and hash any text and view its nearest neighbors.
cosine.constraint.systems

I wanted to explore what it would be like to use the similarity capability of embeddings as the central organizing feature of a site.
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
🌱 Making:
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: 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
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 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.
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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
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
@maxbittker.bsky.social
I remembered/looked up shaderbooth.com and it is good!
October 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Also did a 3 card one - different tags all get IDs which makes me think of doing some sort of weird physical variable assignment thing.
September 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
More experiments with Apriltags:
a color-picker where
x=red
y=green
rotation=blue

freeform physical slider feels interesting
September 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
September 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
You can also just write stuff down -- post-it note album covers might be fun.
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Sure - I got this one www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQ3Y6GN...

it's about 3 feet above the desktop and 21 inches tall on the desk.

I settled at 1080p bc the jump in price for 4k was big. Text seems real readable but i'm not doing prolonged time on it. This is the DIY mount.
September 25, 2025 at 4:34 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.)
September 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I got a mirror to experiment with the projector
September 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Now I'm thinking about SandScape tangible.media.mit.edu/project/sand...
September 18, 2025 at 11:37 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.
September 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Two-hand gets a bit more interesting
September 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM