Changelog

Made a meditation timer as a React component: a Tibetan bowl rings to open and close the session, and a stick figure closes its eyes and breathes while the clock runs.

Built the c/nine podcast end to end. The pipeline takes a KB digest, generates a two-voice dialogue script via the /podcast skill, and renders it to MP3 using ElevenLabs TTS stitched together with ffmpeg. First episode traces the AI alignment problem back to Kant's categorical imperative: two hundred years of philosophers trying to formally specify human values, failing the same way, for the same reasons.

Built a new knowledge base on subculture and innovation: how punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, and surf culture ran the same operating system as science and tech breakthroughs. Updated kb-ingest to support a second mode: deep research notes instead of compiled chapters, dense concept files linked by wikilink and browsable as a graph in Obsidian. The subculture KB was the first to use it.

Compiled ck.AI-History Volume 1 using the research pipeline: 12 chapters tracing the full arc of modern AI. From the deep learning breakthrough and the transformer revolution through generative AI, the geopolitics of the race, and what the frontier looks like from inside it.

Compiled the first book out of the research pipeline: ck.Philosophy Volume 1, tracing Kant's critical philosophy through Schopenhauer's metaphysics of will. Kant drew the limits of reason; Schopenhauer broke through them by a different door.

Built a full research pipeline as a set of Claude Code slash-command skills inside the ck.research channel. The flow goes from raw topic to finished book: /kb-ingest pulls web sources and compiles a structured knowledge base, /kb-ask lets me query it interactively, and /kb-export bundles the whole thing into an EPUB, sends it to Kindle automatically, and saves it to iCloud so I can pull it into the ElevenLabs reader on my phone. /kb-digest synthesizes my existing knowledge bases into a short bridging document. Research is now a first-class terminal workflow, start to finish without leaving the chat.

Built the life room in Blender via MCP, rendering it as a 2D scene directly from Claude Code. Wired interactive hotspots into the render so the vinyl spot opens a Spotify embed, the book zone pulls real covers from OpenLibrary, and photos come up in a 3D card carousel. The room itself is the UI.

Redesigned the c/nine homepage around a solar system as the primary navigation. Each section is a planet in orbit around a central sun, with depth effects, unique orbit speeds, and per-planet hover pause. Navigation becomes something you explore rather than click through.