FABRIC / PUBLIC WORKSHOP
we make useful things.
and some strange ones.
fbc.ad is the public lab for Fabric: experiments, games, research prototypes, small tools, and projects still deciding what they want to be.
WHAT WE’RE WONDERING
questions are part of the work.
These recur across projects. Some become software. Some become essays. Some are allowed to remain questions.
Can a public model learn from communities without turning participation into extraction?
Krill / public infrastructureQ02How small can useful software be before it stops needing a platform?
Fabric small appsQ03What makes a daily game worth returning to if streaks are not the point?
Decoder / Fabric GamesQ04Can web tools feel more like objects than dashboards?
Fabric OS / small appsQ05What should graduate from experiment to product — and what should stay weird?
the lab itselfQ06Can personal planning software feel calm instead of managerial?
Daybook / squirrelPlannerON THE BENCH
working things.
unfinished thinking.
Beta is a status, not a euphemism. These are public enough to inspect, play with or think alongside.
Krill
A transparent public swarm interface built around explicit participation, visible missions and inspectable machinery.
open project story →Decoder
A daily encryption word puzzle: crack the encoded words, compare results and come back for the next board.
open project story →Griddle
A fast-moving word game: place letter tiles, build valid words and use intersections for triple points.
open project story →Daybook
A thoughtful place to write every day. Write a little. Return tomorrow.
open project story →squirrelPlanner
A calendar and planning prototype with multiple calendars, categories, day views, sharing and locale-aware context.
open project story →THINGS THAT ESCAPED THE LAB
some experiments grow up.
When a project becomes a focused product or service, its current home gets to do the selling. fbc.ad keeps the family tree.
LAB NOTES
write down the thinking, too.
Project blogs will increasingly live with the projects themselves. Lab Notes is the cross-project notebook: questions, decisions and ideas that do not belong to only one product.
Why fbc.ad exists
A product catalog was the wrong answer. The workshop needed a front door.
read note →Consent before compute
Krill starts with a governance rule before it starts with scale.
read note →How small can useful software be?
The small apps are a bet that narrow tools can still deserve first-class infrastructure.
read note →THE WIDER FABRIC
the lab is not the whole shop.
fbc.ad is intentionally the strange corner. The other Fabric properties have clearer jobs.
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