Notebook · 記録

Written at 19:30,
before the lights go out.

Every working day ends with a page in the studio notebook. Some pages are worth sharing. These are those — unpolished, dated, and honest about where the engine fell short.

27 June 2026 · Engine

Kaku refused a rewrite today, and it was right

A client asked the code hand to flatten a well-organised module into one long file "for simplicity". Kaku drafted the merge, then attached a note: this will cost you more than it saves, here is the smaller change you actually want. The client took the smaller change. We have started keeping a shelf of these refusals — an engine that only agrees is just a loud keyboard.

Filed under: refusals, shelf two

Dark textured paper surface with faint marks

18 June 2026 · Engine

Teaching Kaku to refuse politely

A week of drafts where the code hand learned to say "this should not be a function" — and why we kept every refusal on record instead of correcting them away.

2 June 2026 · Craft

Why Egaku draws worse on Mondays

Weekend material drift is real: input queued over Saturday arrives stale in some way we cannot fully name. Our fix was not more data but a slower Sunday evening review, with tea.

21 May 2026 · Studio

The knife sharpener's verdict

Our neighbour two doors down finally visited. He watched Egaku draw a blade profile, grunted, and said the spine was honest. We are framing the grunt.

30 April 2026 · Engine

Twelve languages is enough for now

Kaku passed its month of internal review in Kotlin, and we have decided to stop adding languages for the rest of the year. Depth over breadth; the shelf is full.

9 April 2026 · Craft

On leaving corners empty

The most requested Egaku revision this spring was "less". Clients keep asking what we removed to make the work calmer. Nothing — the calm was never added in the first place.

Work worth noting starts with a brief.

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