Why AgencyX Banned the Keyboard
A deep-dive conversation on AgencyX, the native-Swift autonomous software agency: sovereign compute, an auditable evidence ledger, and why the goal is operator silence.
Independent publication
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random posts by K
Hiding the Messy Mind of AI
A one-minute short on why an autonomous agency hides its messy mind: the private reasoning it keeps out of your codebase.
The Agentic Engineering Speed Paradox
The Thoughtworks Technology Radar Volume 34 examines the shift toward AI-assisted software development and its impact on engineering teams.
Engineering Chaos into Story Structure
A deep dive into Khaos Machine: a data-centric ecosystem that turns raw screenplay text into a durable, machine-readable story model without touching the writer's words.
Screenplay Parsing: Speed, Production, ULIDs
How Khaos Machine parses screenplays quickly and assigns stable ULIDs, so a scene keeps its identity even as the script is rewritten.
The Modern Screenplay
A video deep dive on the modern screenplay: how iterative feedback and coverage turn a draft into a production-ready story, and why development is less a straight line than a diagnosis.
Vedic Dharma and Jung’s Individuation: A Comparative Exploration
In this post I’m sharing the results of some of my own journey where I noticed a connection between the concepts in Vedic Dharma and Carl Jung’s Individuation. After an …
Rise & Code: Programming Education for Everyone, No Computer Required (First Draft)
Today, I’m thrilled to share a project that’s been brewing in my workshop: Rise & Code – a first draft of a free, open-source book designed to teach programming, software development, and …
The Decline of Professional Developers: Why Bad Code Still Rules in an AI World
Bad code isn’t new. It’s been haunting the tech world for decades. What’s troubling now is that it’s thriving in ways we couldn’t have imagined before. Generative AI, a tool …
The Flaw of “Prompt-to-Anything” Culture: A Shortcut to Stagnation
In the era of generative AI, we’ve witnessed a dramatic shift in how tasks are approached. What used to require meticulous effort — digging through documentation, participating in forums, or experimen
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building a reusable 2D mouth
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on rigging 2D characters, specifically eyes and mouths. After countless experiments, I think I’ve landed on what I believe to be …
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<strong>First Nations Storytellers</strong>
this was a fun collaboration with Tanya Young. looking forward to what comes next
another round of animations…
featuring hip hop legend Raekwon. I’m still experimenting with animation techniques but here are 3 new renditions.
playing with more generated animations
I generated this using animation prompt examples just to test it out. so far it looks promising.
first generated animation
Powered by odysee embed generator This is fan art I generated over the weekend while exploring animation with Stable Diffusion
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finished training model on Raekwon
it took much longer than expected to train this model but i’m very please with the results
follow up on Raekwon model
so as shared in a previous post i started trying to learn about training custom models on top of Stable Diffusion, by training it to know how to draw Raekwon …
diving into Stable Diffusion
Raekwon the Chef of Wu Tang Clan
the future is now…
for as long as i can remember having skill that i could use to deliver value for others (clients, colleagues and more), i’ve always struggled with time. ever ambitious and …
flour sack practice
flour sack practice
considering designing Madison with my own style
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another manga character
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yellow bikini
taking a crack at manga style
swift redux protocols
here’s my simple version of the redux pattern in swift.
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Camera testing 2D in 3D
i wanted to start blocking out the animations/motion for the Bi4P i dropped Suzanne monkey head grease pencil layer into the 3D hallway scene i built a few weeks back. …
bugfoo swamprider
here’s another quick sketch based on a randomly generated name “Bugfoo Swamprider”.. it’s not finished but think i want to revisit this one later
Wormtu Sockball
so i had an idea to challenge my creativity by using a random name generator to act as a description.. one of the names that came up was “Wormtu Sockball” …
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balisong
i was playing with drawing my hand from reference and had this idea for a simple looping animation.. update: day 2 – this morning i played with coloring and committing …
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learning to rig 2D character in Blender from scratch
learning to rig 2D character in Blender from scratch
making puppet in Animate
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random, but familiar character from my head
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stylized Flav illustration
this is still a work in progress… more updates to come
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stop lion
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hawg hunters
hawg hunters
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me simpson’d
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K joins Apple
K joins Apple
mappr
these screenshots are from an app i built with intent of generating a game world based on NYC map data
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Breakfast @ Tiffany’s
Breakfast @ Tiffany’s
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docker whale
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easily i approach…
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Bootleg Comedy
Bootleg Comedy DVD – Brooklyn 2002
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one of the last artifacts of MALICE, a clothing brand developed in 1999 with a friends. we would prep screens and print up tees and hoodies in the morning, then …