Ideas across time · Side Projects
Things I build for the fun of it, like a downtown Chicago you can walk through at any hour.
From the workbench
Most of them open in their own window and run in your browser. Loqalyn is a Mac app you download.
Film · 51 seconds · Made with AI
A watercolor film of Chicago, from first light over Belmont Harbor to Navy Pier after dark. Five master images, generated video between them, music and a narrated story about the people who built the city.
The video generation cost $11.65. The page tells how it was made and what that price changes.
Watch the filmDocumentary · 16 minutes · A history of AI
A sixteen-minute documentary that follows one question from a chess-playing automaton at Schönbrunn Palace in 1770 to the systems that learn today: can a machine think?
Best watched with the sound on. Captions, chapters and the full narration are on the page.
Watch the filmMarket terminal · Free, public data
A keyboard-driven market terminal that runs entirely on free, public data. Type a ticker and the quotes, charts and headlines follow it. A Factors tab scores a trading signal against what happened next and calls it noise when the statistics do not hold up.
Press / and type HELP for the commands. Quotes may be delayed and nothing here is investment advice. Your watchlists, paper trades and alerts stay in your own browser.
Open the terminalParody storefront · An agent boutique
A luxury boutique where the merchandise is AI agents. Forty-three specialists pose in editorial portraits with a price on every tag, and behind the shop floor an Atelier lets you deploy them and decide which of their runs wait for your approval.
Open the Atelier from the top right to see the showcase workspace. No AI model is connected, so every run returns a labeled sample, and whatever you change stays in your own browser.
Enter the Maison3D room · A library to wander
A two-storey reading room you can walk through. Pull a book from the shelf and it comes to you; turn its pages, light the fire, let it rain, or climb the spiral stair to the gallery.
Best on a laptop with the sound on. Books you keep and notes you write stay in your own browser.
Step insideThought experiment · Insurance for AI agents
An insurer designed from a blank sheet for AI agents that move money. A signed meter watches every tool call, and risky payments wait for a person.
Breslau holds no insurance license. Every rate and figure on the page is illustrative.
Read the design3D city · OpenStreetMap data
A walkable 3D model of downtown Chicago. Slide the light from dawn to midnight, or switch on the rain and watch the streets go wet.
Best on a laptop. Drag to look around, use W A S D to walk and F to fly.
Start walkingStrategy game · An AI-only company
Run a consulting firm staffed by AI agents. The game hands you a small Chicago campus and $650,000, then gives you a year to beat three rivals without losing your clients’ trust in the agents doing the work.
Your campaign saves in this browser, so you can stop and come back. Every company, client and number in the game is made up.
Start your companyMac app · Local AI models
A Mac app that puts the models you run in Ollama and LM Studio behind one local address. It picks a model for each request and shows you why it picked that one. A request only goes to a cloud model after you have read it and approved that single send.
An early alpha for Apple silicon Macs, free and open source under the MIT license. Ollama or LM Studio and the models themselves are separate installs.
Get it on GitHub“Better questions lead to better worlds.”Dinand Tinholt
