playground

Every app I tried spent my first week on fruit and colours. Words I could read off a menu, never the ones carrying a conversation.

So I built the deck I wanted: 1130 words ranked by how often people actually say them, drawn from 27 million words of film and TV subtitles. Sort them by how well you know each one and it spaces the reviews from there. No sign-up, progress lives in your browser.

My feed filled up with small devices with real buttons. Then with people vibecoding their own hardware, like a soil moisture checker that could save my plants (all 2 of them, both slowly dying).

So I went to the hardware + AI workshops Claude Community Barcelona ran with Lyra AI and Protofy.xyz. My first results weren’t great. But I kept playing at home, and turned the board into a birthday cake for a friend, so he could kind of make a wish and blow out the candles.

Animation always ate my time. The first time I brought Claude into motion work it stayed slow, and the results looked great in my head and clunky on screen.

This is me showing my work: how I started, and how it’s going. The tools got sharper (Figma, Claude Code, Remotion) and so did I. Watching both lines move together is the point.

I do disco-tile mosaics on paper as a side thing (I like shiny things and needed something manual). Planning the patterns in Figma was slow and the results were rough.

So I built this. Drop in a photo, set the size, tile size and number of colours, and you get a pattern split into tiles you can tick off as you build the real thing. Works for LEGO too.