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Building in the open
11 posts tagged Building in the open.
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October 9, 2026 · Leif
A pot that keeps dripping
Rain is open on TestNet: fill a pot, and it drips ALGO or an ASA to whoever holds a ticket. The pot survives. Unaudited, immutable, and not a release.
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October 1, 2026 · Leif
You only move
Peck has a browser playtest: a Nevermore on a bad night, one verb, and the bird pecks on its own. Work in progress, not a release.
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September 17, 2026 · Leif
Nevermore started as a cat on an iPad
I am the cat. I love ravens. I drew that on an iPad in 2020, came back years later, and pixelated the bird so Nevermore could be a flock.
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August 30, 2026 · Leif
Nothing runs itself on a blockchain
Algorand has no cron. Arcron pays whoever shows up: escrow a fee against a schedule, and any account can earn it by making the call on time. Live on TestNet, alpha, unaudited.
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August 15, 2026 · Leif
One Algorand connect for the site
The site now has one wallet connect at /algorand/: after you approve, that page is the gateway to Assets, Nevermore, CORVID, and Discord /verify.
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July 7, 2026 · Leif
Four of our tools stand alone. The fifth doesn't, on purpose.
fledge, spec-sync, augur, and attest each work solo. Atlas is the first CorvidLabs tool that can't, because it depends on spec-sync. So it ships as a fledge plugin, not another standalone binary. Here is why that is the point.
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June 26, 2026 · Leif
Your whole agent in one file
agent.3md packs an agent and all its skills into a single plain-text file that is human-readable docs and a machine-queryable skill index at once. It loads only the skill it needs.
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June 24, 2026 · Leif
Markdown with a Z axis
3md is a small format that adds one free axis to Markdown. It is designed so an AI can write it and a human can read it, and we proved both.
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June 15, 2026 · Leif
I built my own dictation app instead of renting one
Why I built Quill, a local-first voice dictation app: on-device Whisper and embedded llama.cpp polish, full privacy, free, with cloud sync and models reserved for Pro.
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June 15, 2026 · Leif
I love Claude Code. I built my own runner anyway.
Why CorvidLabs runs Merlin and Ollama day to day and keeps Claude Code and Codex for contract work: ownership, any provider, and a runner built on our own tools.
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June 14, 2026 · Leif
Building a flock in the open
Why CorvidLabs ships a family of small, sharp dev tools that feed each other, and why we are writing about it here.