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Five machines, drawn to be taken apart

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Most diagrams of a mechanism are a picture of a mechanism. They show you the parts and then stop, because a picture cannot answer the question you actually have: what happens when this moves.

These five figures answer it. Each one is a machine drawn in isometric SVG, sitting on a test rig, with the mechanism live underneath. They run below in this page: no plugin, no install, and no request to anyone else’s server. Each is also a standalone file if you would rather have it full width: the whole set lives at Anatomy .

Sketch the UI, then let the AI write it

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:30:00 -0700

The weak spot in vibe coding was never the code generation. It’s the brief. You describe an app in prose, the model invents a layout, and you spend the next hour writing “no, the button goes there” in increasingly CAPS-locked English. Language is a lossy format for describing screens.

m3e-canvas — by lnkiai, MIT licensed, runs in the browser — attacks exactly that. You sketch your screens from real Material 3 Expressive components, link them into a tap-through prototype, and export the whole thing as a prompt for your AI coding tool. Their demo gif goes from a habit-tracker sketch to the app running on Android.

IG Post Maker

Wed, 21 May 2025 17:06:27 +0000

Automated Instagram Post Generation with IG-Post-Agent#

Have you ever wished to quickly create engaging Instagram content that includes slide ideas, catchy descriptions, and hashtags—all automatically? The IG-Post-Agent project (its GitHub repository is no longer public) makes it possible. Leveraging a multi-agent system built with AutoGen alongside the power of Ollama’s large language model (LLM), this tool lets you generate complete Instagram posts in just a few steps.

Website Analyzer

Wed, 21 May 2025 17:06:27 +0000

Markdown Syntax Guide

Tue, 20 May 2025 19:43:29 +0000

This article offers a sample of basic Markdown syntax that can be used in Hugo content files.