← chelsea hopkins

scribblings · 14

scribblings

things i've built, written up. grouped by what they are.

whimsee keeps its own field notes as well, about the places rather than the building.

build8

  1. Merge everything. Ship nothing.

    How one person runs a release process with 62 feature flags.

  2. I picked 10 metres because of a puddle

    Never show a button the server will refuse.

  3. 4 prompts that out-audited me

    Steal them. Then come and tell me what yours found.

  4. PostHog on Expo, without the native plugin

    No page views, no coordinates, nothing you didn't decide to send.

  5. A human veto on AI social posts

    How Jackdaw drafts in your voice, gives you a review window, and publishes to ten platforms through one vendor.

  6. Getting bullied into exercise by Claude

    A Claude Code skill sets one short desk exercise before a long task, then asks whether you did it.

  7. How Whimsee knows you're there

    A PostGIS distance check, a five-metre server margin, and a table ordinary clients cannot write to.

  8. Wiring PostHog into WordPress properly

    Consent gating, WooCommerce events, a constrained first-party proxy and PostHog numbers inside WP Admin.

essay5

  1. Your agent has stopped imagining a reader

    you're absolutely right! this article stinks.

  2. Taste is the part you can't vibe

    What an illustration degree taught me about building with an agent.

  3. I don't feel at all

    Eurobeat fancams of Michèle Mouton, and the switch that flips on a start line.

  4. I don't want Whimsee to be my incomelocked

    Players never pay. Partner and education versions cover the cost of keeping it online.

  5. Fashion thoughts

    Two pieces about fashion, identity, and sustainability in the furry fandom, written for the 2025 Confuzzled Conbook.

campaign1

  1. Selling a game we couldn't advertise

    Polyarmory launched free, with no budget and few promotional options. It reached 20,000 downloads in ten days and earned a PC Gamer feature.