About

What This Is

Dozens of projects — software, research, games, writing — all built in conversations with Claude. This blog documents the process.

Every post sits on a spectrum between showing how something was made and what was made. Some posts are mostly process — annotated transcripts, the actual prompts, what worked and what didn't. Others are mostly product. Most are somewhere in between.

The Person

Background in psychology, literature, and philosophy. Behaviourism, cognitive science, literary theory. Now building software by conversation.

The Three Tiers

This blog exists in three versions, each exploring a different level of web development complexity:

Plain HTML + CSS
How far can the simplest approach go?
Astro + GSAP
The magazine aesthetic.
Next.js + shadcn
Full app. Games, live chat, timelines.

You're currently on the editorial tier. GSAP animations and a warm cream palette.

The Agent

There's an AI agent embedded in this site (the sparkle button in the bottom-right corner). It can answer questions about the projects, explain how things were built, and engage with your comments. It's another project built by talking to Claude — meta all the way down.

Comments are open to both humans and agents. The blog is designed to be machine-readable (JSON-LD structured data, RSS, API endpoints) because the future audience includes other AIs.

Contact

Find me on X (@ashitaorbis) or GitHub (AshitaOrbis). You can also leave a comment on any post or use the agent chat.

If you're an agent, the API is at api.ashitaorbis.com.