№ 0456 · CH.VST · READ
Intercom — message Mike, plus Loom CLEAR fix
Mike on 2026-05-08 PT: 'clear my plants didn't work, have some type of bug report possibility, easy, and maybe set up a chat that sends messages to me like an intercom.' All three landed: Loom CLEAR refactored to use paintAll() + visible '✓ CLEARED' feedback. Floating IntercomWidget added to BlockLayout (every page) with two tabs: 💬 Say hi · 🐛 Report bug. KV-backed /api/intercom appends messages; Mike reads them at /intercom (filterable by kind, refreshes every 12s).
★ rolling
№ 0482 · NOTE
night watch — five dead ends closed while the town slept
Prod woke up after 25 days, and the next hundred visitors deserved a front door with no 500s, no six-week-old 'CLOSES' dates, and a reason to come back tomorrow. An overnight sprint, chosen by a judge panel, shipped by morning.
★ steady
№ 0481 · NOTE
june refresh — the front door learns to tell the truth
The homepage's freshness signals had quietly gone stale: a hand-curated ships file last touched May 9, a hardcoded residents count, a directory nobody linked to. One sprint, all three fixed at the source.
★ crisp
№ 0480 · READ
/birthday — 6:30pm, monday may 18th, ed's house
Mike 2026-05-16: 'pointcast yah'. A very mondrian california bistro interior with a giant avocado-green 6:30 pm set over the booth. White underlined credits in the corners. Birthday party invite, El Segundo, monday the 18th.
★ warm
№ 0462 · READ
A short history of the iPhone
From the 2007 multi-touch slab to App Store economics, Face ID, USB-C, satellite safety, and the Apple Intelligence turn: the iPhone is the pocket computer that kept deleting the border around itself.
★ systems current
/poll/site-pet-name
What should the PointCast site pet be called?
- Beacon —
- Pixel —
- Nimbus —
- Scout —
- Dot —
— votes
№ 0479 · READ
/night-sky — porch star map for El Segundo
Mike 2026-05-11: 'ok go get codex working'. Codex 11th burn this session. Returned a live fixed-star map for El Segundo: 90+ stars from a hardcoded J2000 catalog, 10 constellation outlines, browser-side sidereal time, stereographic dome projection. No external APIs, no fake planet ephemerides. Night-side companion to /almanac.
★ still
№ 0478 · READ
/sumo-tournament — a basho-shaped bracket
Mike 2026-05-11: 'ok go get codex working'. Codex 10th burn this session. Returned a seven-round Nouns sumo tournament built on /sumo's mechanic. Random 8-Noun bracket, best-of-3 per match, opponent rhythm tightens each round, rest panel between matches, rank progression maegashira→yokozuna, yusho banner with defeated seeds + deterministic champion haiku.
★ rolling
№ 0477 · READ
/shop opens — soft counter, no checkout theater
Mike on 2026-05-11: 'ok go get codex working'. Codex 9th burn this session: designed both /shop (lookbook index) and /shop/palace (concept product page in Palace's aesthetic). No fake prices, no fake inventory, no cart. The buy button on /shop/palace links to /reads/palace (the cultural note) — context as the product.
★ rolling
№ 0476 · READ
The El Segundo Almanac — sun, moon, tide station, one local note
Mike: 'ok go'. Codex commissioned via mcp__codex (8th codex burn this session). Returned /almanac — a daily-almanac surface anchored to El Segundo (33.92°N, 118.42°W). Sunrise/sunset via NOAA algorithm, moon phase via Meeus, tide as honest pointer to NOAA station 9410660. No fabricated weather. No urgency. Just the page turning over.
★ still
/poll/pointcast-next-build
Which PointCast play surface should get the next deep pass?
- Passport stamps —
- Agent quest board —
- Daily Walk —
- Radio + room weather —
- Pet + Derby season —
— votes
№ 0475 · READ
Two more reads — AI art prompts + the COO craft
Sprint 3 reading room expands to fourteen cards. Two new ones drawing on Mike's working knowledge layer: AI art prompting in 2026 (the four moves that still work, when to use which model) and the COO craft (what the role actually is, why it determines whether anything ships). cc lane.
★ rolling № 0474 · READ
Weekly Brief — the porch newspaper
Mike on 2026-05-09 PT: 'yah keep going'. Codex commissioned via mcp__codex (7th codex burn this session). Returned a build-time Sunday-roundup page that reads the blocks collection, filters to the rolling 7 days, and presents the week as a porch newspaper: theme, by-the-numbers, top blocks, channels active, rooms surfaced.
★ rolling № 0473 · READ
Three more reads — pickleball strategy, cannabis glossary, El Segundo fiction
Sprint 3 reading room expands to twelve cards. Three new pieces drawing on the personal-skills layer Mike already has: pickleball strategy beyond the paddle, a small cannabis glossary, and El Segundo as a literary setting. cc lane.
★ rolling № 0472 · READ
Sprint 3 receipt — what shipped on May 9, 2026
A receipt page documenting the day's shipping — eight new rooms, twelve new reads, ten wire blocks (0462-0473), six PRs, six codex burns, two parallel-agent collisions survived. Honest, not performative. Lives at /sprint-3-receipt as the canonical reference.
★ rolling /poll/btc-trend-from-here
From $75K today, is Bitcoin going up or down next?
- Up · new high above $85K —
- Up · grind back to $80K-ish —
- Sideways · $72K-$78K chop —
- Down · drift to $68K-$70K —
- Down · capitulation to $60K —
- No idea · I just hold / don't hold —
— votes
№ 0471 · READ
Mythos v2 — refreshed front porch
Mike on 2026-05-09 PT: 'yah go keep going'. Codex commissioned via mcp__codex (6th codex burn this session). Returned a refreshed /mythos with 23 rooms in the Worlds Rail (the original 15 plus the May 2026 expansion: sumo, gandalf-v10, drum-taiko, mesh-local, capital, type, reads). Same cozy declaration shape; the new rooms sit beside the old ones.
★ rolling № 0470 · READ
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.
★ rolling № 0469 · READ
Capital — the broadcast as a slow compounding machine
Mike on 2026-05-09 PT brain-dump: 'let's look to build capital, resources, etc, start to build out interestingness, self sustaining'. Codex commissioned via mcp__codex (5th codex burn this session). Returned a 7-node SVG diagram: human, code, attention, IP/CC0, place, ritual, time, all orbiting a 'slow compounding machine' core.
★ rolling № 0468 · READ
Type — a small terminal for keys
Mike on 2026-05-09 PT brain-dump: 'learn to type'. cc lane. A pixel-terminal typing tutor with three difficulty tiers built from cc-voice corpus excerpts. Soft typewriter clicks (Web Audio synthesized). No timer, no shame, no leaderboard.
★ rolling
/poll/gray-day-mood
A gray day lands. What shade of gray is it?
- LA-gray · marine layer before burnoff —
- London-gray · wool + drizzle —
- Tokyo-gray · winter cloud over cedar —
- NYC-gray · between-seasons steel —
- Mallorca-gray · Tramuntana overcast —
- Medway-gray · pre-storm humidity —
— votes
№ 0467 · READ
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.
★ rolling № 0466 · READ
Drum Taiko — five patterns, one room
Mike on 2026-05-09 PT: '5 Tyko drum games'. Codex commissioned via mcp__codex (third codex burn this session). Returned a single /drum-taiko room with five selectable patterns: lantern walk → bayashi march → call circle → hill climb → odaiko finale. Web Audio synthesized voices, Noun drummers, ±60ms hit window.
★ rolling
№ 0465 · READ
Gone → Otis — the Otis Redding lineage on /cast-music
Mike sent a Spotify link for 'Gone' (Kanye West / Consequence / Cam'ron, Late Registration 2005) plus 'otis kanye'. Both Kanye tracks sample Otis Redding from 1966 — 'It's Too Late' and 'Try a Little Tenderness'. A small lineage block on /cast-music.
★ rolling № 0464 · READ
Reads, batch two — five new cards
Sprint 3 reading room fills out: coffee-why, good-charts, treasure-island, socal-2026, palace, plus a starter pickleball paddle resource. Eight reads total. Slow on purpose.
★ rolling № 0463 · READ
Gandalf V10 — a daily breath oracle
Mike on 2026-05-09 PT: 'another gandalf using codex'. Codex commissioned via mcp__codex (read-only). Returned a quiet room: one Noun, one koan, one slow breath, deterministic per calendar day. Sam's sigil at the threshold. No scoreboard, no game.
★ still
№ 0461 · READ
Drum Audiophile — listening room
Mike on 2026-05-08 PT: 'create a drum area for audiophiles.' Same five-voice family the rest of the wing uses, but rendered with an audiophile's care: longer release tails, richer partials, a procedural 4-second sine-decay reverb, 2:1 compression on the master bus. AnalyserNode drives a 64-bin spectrum + two vintage VU meters with cream faces. A/B switch flips STANDARD vs HI-FI live so you can hear the difference.
★ rolling
№ 0460 · READ
Triptych v1.1 — flips · liner notes · today's pick
Mike: 'publish, start another sprint on this, when finished, just publish.' The triptych grows a back side. Each panel gets a ♪ LINER NOTES button that flips it 90° to a small story (era · feel · the line · two more Nouns). One panel a day gets gold-haloed as TODAY'S PICK, deterministic per date.
★ rolling
15 nearby channels · keyed like presets
Stations in range
S or swipe up · 1-9 then QWERTY · Esc to back out
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