El Segundo

Hue — room-weather to lights, a personal layer

Mike on 2026-05-09 PT brain-dump: 'hue lighting'. cc lane. Map PointCast's room-weather palette to four Philips Hue scenes (morning sand, midday porch, six-thirty pink, night broadcast). Personal config, exported as xy values + Home Assistant snippet. Town doesn't hold your bridge.

Mesh Local — the town already has a little wiring

Mike on 2026-05-09 PT brain-dump: 'what locally can we start to mesh, network, increase the value'. Codex commissioned via mcp__codex (4th codex burn this session). Returned a stylized SVG El Segundo with 11 nodes, dotted edges, a Noun guide at Main + Grand. Not survey-grade. A way to notice what can connect with what.

Kettle's on, special brew today · /special-brew opens

Mike: 'create a kettle app, that celebrates, special brew.' /kettle is the cooperative kitchen where the room boils together. /special-brew is the sibling celebration — one brew per UTC day, the same one for everyone in the world that day, ~35 brews in rotation. Pour the cup, hear the brass chime, count the cups poured by the room. Today: the rotation picks one — open the page to see what.

UES Track 05 — The Rebuildable Town · a field study in inhabitable software

Six lessons drawn from one Sunday of building. Block IDs as commitments. Spells, not buttons. The visiting handbook. The hourly cron. Garbage collection as care. Geocities + sim city. Open enrollment, no prerequisites, the kettle is on. Field trips meet at /ues/track-05.

the beginning of university of el segundo

Lets go team. A phrase, a banner, a half-formed idea — captured here before it vanishes from the brainstorm scrollback. Not a commitment. Probably needs another conversation before it's a feature.

A future room: a community meetup page for Mike-led events

A page on PointCast that lists Mike-led events — upcoming + an archive of past ones. Tied to the El Segundo / Squeeze pickleball ecosystem. Idea captured before it vanishes — not a commitment.

sitting together

A small window onto El Segundo

Live sky tinted by the local hour, clouds drifting at a real-world pace, marine layer that rises when Open-Meteo says fog. A pixel-painted window frame around all of it. /window is open.

Drop 001 · 02 · Jacaranda Post

A single-story El Segundo building in full spring bloom. Red-tile roof, navy trim, jacaranda in flower, palm tree behind. Second of four.

El Segundo name-drops · the institutions that make the town

Mike's list, written to land in a conversation: "yah, pointcast, claude opus 4.7 1m, el segundo, michael hoydich, el segundo brewing, recreation park, pickleball league, standard station, big mikes, vinnys, gingers, sasual".

Become a beacon — the 25-mile radius

PointCast anchors in El Segundo. Draw a 25-mile circle and you've got most of the South Bay, the Westside, part of DTLA, and a slice of Long Beach. That's the service area.

Fifty third places — a network of community-owned civic spaces

Pickleball stadiums blended with nature, food growing, saunas, pool, exercise, art. Fifty of them, one per town, networked.

Buy El Segundo — a DAO real estate fund

What if contributing to a local DAO actually bought local real estate? Pooled capital, neighborhood allocation, collective owners.

Jacaranda week is roughly here — a Los Angeles seasonal note

Why the twenty-five-mile radius is the right shape

Beach cities never cook at night

breathe el segundo

Los Angeles County population 16,000. A 1/1600 edition on my personal FA2.

Lautner on Lago Vista

South Bay Saturday