The Toolbox

The workshop. How everything here actually gets made: the tools, the prompts, the workflows, the finished thing. Every entry is a cookbook you can reproduce.

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• No. 3 · 2026-06-17

  Two games hidden in an ad wall

  Toolbox No. 3. The Economy of Words wall hides two games. A pac-man that eats the live words and a crosshair that shoots them, both scored on a board nobody can fake. Here is how they were built, and the cheat that got caught.

• No. 2 · 2026-06-17

  Economy of Words

  The idea behind Economy of Words. A public wall where you buy words by the letter, a dollar each, and the cheapest way to be heard is to be brief. Part art, part advertising.

• No. 1 · 2026-06-16

  A promo video, made without a video editor

  Toolbox No. 1. The Economy of Words promo is generated frame by frame by a script, not edited by hand. Here is the exact stack of free command-line tools, and why it beats opening a video editor.