Experiments

Kiloskin is a desktop client for the Kilo agent runtime. The Electron main process resolves and spawns kilo serve, holds the server password, reads files and normalises HTTP and SSE events into one store; the React renderer only draws snapshots received over IPC. Chat, live code, terminal output, diffs, plans and permission requests become separate panes fed by the same event stream. The difficult part is synchronisation. Two Kilo servers, one in this app and one in VS Code, each have their own SSE bus, so neither sees the other's activity. Both read the same SQLite database. The bridge reconciles roster, transcript and diffs against it every 1.5 seconds, while local activity still arrives immediately. It is legible, not magical.

Self-Evolving Life treats a cellular automaton as a search space of executable shaders. A language model proposes changes to the step and display fragments; repair fixes missing uniforms and syntax before compilation, and runtime gates reject anything that fails, freezes, goes blank or exceeds a time budget. Survivors are fingerprinted by behaviour, not code: sparseness, motion, entropy, hue, saturation and texture frequency drive novelty search. A vision model watches five frames rather than one still, so it can distinguish structure from fizz; a measure tests how much variance survives block averaging. Every genome is stored in IndexedDB, so lineage can be inspected and replayed. Judgement is a proxy, not solved taste. The engine builds on skeeto's WebGL Game of Life.

Engine based on skeeto/webgl-game-of-life (Unlicense).

Single Column is a small FFFFOUND! reader built around 231 AI-upscaled images. Every seven seconds it rescans the folder and appends anything new. Modern mode shows one image at a time against a mat colour sampled from the file itself; classic mode restores the dense masonry grid, and a local flag remembers the choice. The source files are z-image upscales of found photography and renderings, enlarged for screen display rather than restoration. I did not take the photographs. The experiment is about rhythm and framing: how much context an image needs, how a sampled border changes its reading, and whether a feed can feel edited without a human editor. Nothing is captioned or tagged. Copyright remains with the original authors.

Source images are from the FFFFOUND! archive and remain the property of their original authors. The upscaled files are shown for display only.