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Project stories with the details left in. What changed, how it works and what the evidence can actually support.

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CONCEPTUAL WORKSHOP ILLUSTRATION / FIELD NOTE 04

LOCAL AI / 04

A Local Coding Assistant, Inside Light Table

Ollama is now inside the original editor: model choice, project tools, real preview inspection and recovery. How it works, what context it sends and where its limits remain.

8 min readExperimental / public testing release
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CONCEPTUAL ILLUSTRATION / FIELD NOTE 01

RESTORATION REPORT / 01

What We Have Recovered in Light Table

From the first calculation to projects, language sessions and a local assistant: a record of the work that now has evidence behind it.

5 min readExperimental · private staging
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CONCEPTUAL ILLUSTRATION / FIELD NOTE 02

UNDER THE HOOD / 02

When an Edit Can Keep a Program Running

Changing a function is different from starting a program again. Here is the boundary the restored live view actually handles.

3 min readScoped live-state updates verified
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CONCEPTUAL ILLUSTRATION / FIELD NOTE 03

WORKSHOP TOOLS / 03

A Counter That Counts Page Loads

A small persistent backend, short-lived retry data and six honest digits. What Retro Visits measures—and what it cannot tell us.

3 min readDeployed · public source
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