Pierre.io Journal

WarGames terminal fonts painstakingly reconstructed, LLMs right-sized to your actual hardware, persistent KV cache making local AI feel fast, and a TB-303 rebuilt from scratch — plus meditative generative ambient and late-night electronic drift.

Terminal tools, macOS productivity apps, jungle music, animation principles, and weekend movie watching—from ASCII 3D viewers to satirical SSH snake games.

Discovered Walkman.land, an exhaustive archive documenting decades of Sony's portable audio devices.

Exploring OKLCH color palettes—perceptually uniform color systems that make design color math actually work.

Reflections on Halt and Catch Fire, the criminally underwatched AMC drama about reinvention and collaboration in the 1980s tech industry.

Local-first software spotlight: micasa (home maintenance in your terminal) and resurf (a Mac-native personal library for capturing and resurfacing ideas).

The beginning of the end for legacy paid utilities as LLMs collapse the friction between idea and working prototype, spawning free vibe-coded alternatives.

A day of pessimistic AI takes, and some old D&B bangers (I'm old)

Warcraft III UI components, privacy-first screen recording, and the tiniest AI assistant yet.

Teleprompter apps, visual bookmark tools, Astro content editors, and immersive storytelling.

Logo libraries, bitmap fonts, terminal book readers, and AI coding agent orchestration tools.

Cassette archaeology across continents, forensic document reconstruction, dithering visual effects, and a beloved Markdown editor returns.

Design fundamentals roundup: grids, motion principles, and the Creative Web Manual, plus film and music.

Isometric NYC map, Artvee public-domain archive, Wallace and Gromit typeface, films, and late-night bass.

How to roll your own Vercel with Apache git hooks, plus notes on new dev VMs and AntiRender satire.

RSS guilt origins, a graphic design history resource archive, and a drum and bass pick.

FlowVision for macOS, DeepMind's Project Genie, Agentation feedback tool, exe.dev SSH VM, Beam iPad browser, and two tracks.

Flight physics, a 105-year-old lobsterman's story, Heat's nocturnal ambience, and a new Mecha Comet handheld.