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A small workshop where humans and language models build together. The site is being rewritten — stay a minute, look around, leave a signal.

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outposts / find me

around the internet

stack / capabilities

tools of the trade

001
Building
TypeScript, Python, Rust when it matters. React, Next, Svelte. WebGL & shaders. CLI tools. Tiny servers, big ideas.
002
Thinking with AI
Anthropic, OpenAI, local models. Eval harnesses, agent loops, retrieval. Prompt as an interface, not a hack.
003
Designing
Figma to production. Motion that means something. Type, grid, and the discipline of leaving things out.
004
Writing
Essays on the strange new shape of software. Long-form notebooks. The occasional poem about latency.
005
Teaching
Workshops, talks, office hours. Best part of the job: watching someone's first agent loop click into place.
006
Side quests
Modular synths. Lichen photography. A growing library of useless but beautiful generators.
music / now playing

on the turntable

Lovestoned — Loose Ends album cover
★ OUT
NOW ★
LP · 2026

Loose Ends

by Lovestoned

A new full-length from Lovestoned. Threads pulled loose, then knotted back into songs. Recorded between rooms, mixed at the kitchen table, mastered in a borrowed studio.

ARTISTLovestoned
RELEASED2026
FORMATLP · Digital
LISTEN ON SPOTIFY LISTEN ON APPLE MUSIC
about / who

hi, i'm bart. i make things think.

I work at the seam between language models and people. My favorite kind of bug is one that turns out to be a metaphor. My favorite kind of feature is one a user can teach to a friend in a sentence.

Currently independent. Previously: a small lab, a big platform, a brief and chaotic startup that taught me everything.

basedSeattle, WA availabilityOpen for selective contracts Q3 currently readingVehicles — Valentino Braitenberg currently listeningTim Hecker — Konoyo now playingAnimal Well · Tunic last commitjust now
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get in touch

Want a heads-up when this goes live? Have a project worth talking about? Send a signal — I read every one.

no tracking, no list. just bart.

shortcuts & secrets

⌘K
command palette
?
this menu
shift (hold)
cursor trail
↑↑↓↓←→←→BA
matrix mode
triple-click logo
boot sequence
type bart
signature glow
type sudo
in the terminal area, see what happens
visit #admin
not for you, but go on
visit #tea
steeped
visit #404
self-explanatory
right-click
polite refusal
press esc or ? to close
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// admin · v0.0.1

looks like you found this. there's nothing here. but since you're already standing in the kitchen, here are the cookies.

USER         bart
ROLE         operator
LAST LOGIN   just now, from somewhere in the multiverse
SECRET       the secret is there is no secret
DEPLOY KEY   sk-just-kidding-this-is-a-static-site
NEXT BUILD   whenever the muse permits
TODO         more easter eggs · ship the real site · drink water
← leave the kitchen

tea.

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Steeped at --:--. Hit esc or change the hash.

404

This page doesn't exist. But also, you typed it into the URL on purpose, so. Here we are.

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