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grant @grantcuster.com · 21h

Exploring the 10/GUI demo video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWz1...) and multi-touch possibilities on the tabletop:

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grant @grantcuster.com · 28/09/2026

Added a board link feature to help navigate the tabletop

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Héliographe @heliographe.studio · 26/09/2026

I spent the summer prototyping a device that projects information and imbues computing into the real world, I call it the Lightbulb Computer. Full write up and demos at lightbulbcomputer.com Or on YouTube: youtu.be/0R-9qkjPEqg

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The Lightbulb Computer — Reimagining Spatial & Ambient Computing with Projectors

A new direction for computing: projecting information into the real world to augment it, with a device that combines a projector and computer vision in the shape of a large lightbulb.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 25/09/2026

Experimenting with pinned cards and frames on the tabletop;

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grant @grantcuster.com · 25/09/2026

New tabletop recording setup:

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grant @grantcuster.com · 18/09/2026

Thinking about tabletop frame and file mechanics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqoa...

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Tabletop: frame and file mechanics

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grant @grantcuster.com · 16/09/2026

I can post a blue sky from the tabletop now using a frame.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 15/09/2026

Enjoyed this history of Zoomable User Interfaces/Infinite Canvases from Interface Studies. It suggests success of Figma versus earlier system interfaces is that the user populates the space themselves (vs the system determining the layout. Better for orienting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OESX...

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The Curious Case of Zoomable User Interfaces and AI

YouTube video by Interface Studies

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grant @grantcuster.com · 14/09/2026

Enjoyed the Folk.computer and Interface Studies conversation! - rationale for focusing on object (vs gesture) tracking was interesting - liked the comment about the difference between being focused on physical space vs being pulled into virtual space www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXHH...

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Conversations 01: Physical Computing with Omar Rizwan & Daniel Pipkin from Folk.computer

YouTube video by Interface Studies

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grant @grantcuster.com · 14/09/2026

Wrote about an Eno quote from How Buildings Learn. Thinking about how the gradient of constraints in a space give you an entry point into its story. feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-09...

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grant @grantcuster.com · 13/09/2026

Experimenting with importing web pages and text files onto the canvas.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 11/09/2026

Putting together frames and cards to preview and think through writing:

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grant @grantcuster.com · 11/09/2026

Catching up on videos/talks. I loved Patchwork-26 demos! Especially Orion's bidirectional projections, the spacetime video editor, and grjte's spatial computing setup. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UxG...

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Introducing Patchwork-26

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grant @grantcuster.com · 10/09/2026

Thinking about the asteroids tabletop, which was somewhat inexplicably at my orthodontist's growing up. Two player screen would be fun - though I think most practical would be each user gets their own screen but you can toss things across between them.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 10/09/2026

Working through creation and deletion on the tabletop. Two-finger tap feels a little more reliable than double-tap, and paint-select feels great.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 09/09/2026

Input capture on the tabletop

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grant @grantcuster.com · 06/09/2026

I’m in this group and first meet-up was fun! Consider joining if you’re in the area/like weird sci-fi.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 31/08/2026

Giving a talk on my tabletop setup at Brooklyn Web Workers tonight - tickets at pools.events/event/QZru62...

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grant @grantcuster.com · 24/08/2026

Re: Omarchy I am happy to see Linux excitement. I do not support DHH. If you want a 'malleable OS' of a kind I can recommend NixOS + Niri + Waybar. Claude Code or the like can then do most anything from you Nix config. (Still a setup learning curve I'm sure.)

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grant @grantcuster.com · 12/08/2026

Steward Brand wrote: > the most important tool for organizing projects is lots of horizontal space and immediate-to-hand storage He used a shipping container to edit _How Buildings Learn_. I want to make a digital version of this. feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-08...

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Inspiration : Stewart Brand's shipping container workspace - Feed

![Stewart Brand in his shipping container](https://grant-uploader.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/2026-08-12-11-55-45-2000.jpg) Working on the digital tabletop got me thinking back to Stewart Brand talkin...

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grant @grantcuster.com · 11/08/2026

CSS styles and text are applied per cell based on position. Global styles can be applied at the top.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 10/08/2026

I finished True to Life, the Hockney interview book recommended by @arquipelago.org. Weschler is always visiting his house to find him absorbed at his work table, full of ideas of things he wants to try out. It made me think "I want a working life like that". feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-08...

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Books : True to Life - Feed

![by Lawrence Weschler](https://grant-uploader.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/2026-08-10-11-59-28-2000.jpg) [Cristóbal](https://cristobal.arquipelago.org/) recommended this when I was working on my [imag...

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grant @grantcuster.com · 08/08/2026

Testing out OBS controls on the tabletop.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 08/08/2026

Happy HTML day! I don’t think I’ll make it to an event but I will write some HTML.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 07/08/2026

Window management from the digital tabletop, running through Niri scripts:

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grant @grantcuster.com · 05/08/2026

Windows minimize onto the tabletop - then I can throw them back

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grant @grantcuster.com · 04/08/2026

Thinking about using my digital tabletop setup as a kind of combined text editor, file viewer, clipboard and desktop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN3W...

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Sending text and screenshots onto the digital tabletop

YouTube video by Grant Custer

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grant @grantcuster.com · 04/08/2026

Trying out an extension to send quotes onto the board:

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grant @grantcuster.com · 03/08/2026

Experimenting with throwing into the trash on the tabletop. Much better than selecting and hitting keyboard delete.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 31/07/2026

I liked Andy Matuschak's use of the word "physics" to describe a set of rules in software and I've been thinking about why. Physics in the real world constrains and enables what we can build. It supports a shared understanding of how things operate. feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-07...

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Thinking : Software physics - Feed

I like Andy Matuschak's use of the word "physics" to describe a set of rules in software [tn his talk on the possibilities LLMs open up for programming](https://andymatuschak.org/tat/). Two examples: ...

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grant @grantcuster.com · 29/07/2026

Behind the scenes of the current digital tabletop setup: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN_q...

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Digital tabletop writing experiment

YouTube video by Grant Custer

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grant @grantcuster.com · 29/07/2026

The artist compresses their perception of the moment and the scene, then the viewer opens it back up. The unfolding does not fully recover the artist's experience -- and that's even better. The viewer interpolates in their own experience to the shape provided. feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-07...

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Thinking : Art as compression - Feed

David Hockney talking about the difference between photography and painting: > ...the reason you can’t look at a photograph for a long time is because there’s virtually no time in it - the imbalance ...

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grant @grantcuster.com · 27/07/2026

Trying out canvas-based paragraph reordering pared with a live document preview.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 22/07/2026

Experimenting with calibrating the overhead camera. Using OpenCV to process out the lens distortion. Book text is just readable at 4k.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 21/07/2026

New physical computing setup test run: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGRu...

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New physical computing setup

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grant @grantcuster.com · 16/07/2026

New from me on Constraint Systems: Branch - A collaborative collage of tree and branch photos. Take a photo and trace the flow to add to a branch. branch.constraint.systems

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grant @grantcuster.com · 12/07/2026

I read The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin. Finishing a reread of probably my favorite fantasy series. A lot of questions for this one to resolve (sometimes felt rushed through) but by the end it achieves it. I really like how the stone eaters' stories develop. feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-07...

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Books : The Stone Sky - Feed

![by N.K. Jemisen](https://grant-uploader.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/2026-07-12-09-10-13-2000.jpg) I moved a little slower through this one, mostly because I found a lot of the Nassun chapters tough ...

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grant @grantcuster.com · 09/07/2026

Today I started in on blog revamp. Overall I'm thinking about how I want my software and computer to work in a world where LLMs make adding features/cheap. I want to avoid bloating the surface area (particularly for one-off admin feature experiments). feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-07...

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Thinking : Blog rework and composition - Feed

Today I started in on blog revamp. Partly because I wanted to experiment with [Matt Pocock's LLM skill workflow](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-ski...

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grant @grantcuster.com · 01/07/2026

Experimenting with mini-browsers limited to specific urls or domains. Clicking on external links saves them to a list (that possibly you then feed into a different mini browser?). www.youtube.com/watch?v=PytZ...

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Constraint Browsers - thinking about mini browsers to keep you focused

YouTube video by Grant Custer

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grant @grantcuster.com · 29/06/2026

Put together a prototype writerdeck with the modos dev kit. Direct sunlight does work. It's a bit bulky and I should probably use one of my minimal low-profile keyboards, but I do love typing on the kinesis the most. In some other world I'd cut up and mod the kinesis body directly.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 27/06/2026

Experimenting with putting the embedded texts from cosine.constraint.systems into UMAP and then fitting to a grid. Not as glanceable as images would be but I think there's probably some interesting moves to make here.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 27/06/2026

sphere-paint.constraint.systems got a little rowdy and then somebody came in and erased (drew over with white) the whole thing.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 27/06/2026

Delighted by the Marble Answering Machine by Durrell Bishop durrellbishop.com/ideasresearch via Matt Webb's post on form interconnected.org/home/2026/06... I'd love to make something like this

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