Essays and experiments by Tu Pham
These notes were from a morning where I was working through content organization across different platforms. Feet kicked up on my desk, staring at the page of notes I'd written down and thought: who takes notes like this? So I sent it to Claude. What I saw AI Observation The original page of notes. Cross-shaped layout, no grid, no headers. Things ended up where they ended up. The same page, read…
I joined Subvert.fm last night. Member #19235. It's a co-op: artists, labels, fans, workers all own a piece of it. The platform is in alpha. There's no guarantee it works. (Really hoping it does!!!) Member #19235 I've loved Bandcamp for years. It's where I go for game soundtracks, for finding things that don't exist anywhere else. If you care about indie artists actually getting paid, it's still…
This started as a warm-up. I wanted to build something small that felt good to use. No product requirements, no user stories, just: I want to make a spirograph Drag or throw Play some music and watch — instant visualizer Where it started A single index.html file. Three simple shapes (circle, triangle, square), a dashed target ring, and a canvas. Drag a shape onto the ring, a spirograph starts…
