The first head, and hers. The voice is a woman's, so the robot became her too.

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Web development. A build story: TL;DR, the steps, a code block, the commit timeline. A made-up magazine; every story in it is one of Christian's Field Notes.

In this issue

  1. 01Build NotesThe narrator gets a faceA case study of GlazyArray, the Field Notes narrator, becoming a little brass robot in every Listen bar: a talking head, hands from one video, cheeky hints to press play, and fourteen looks.
  2. 02Build NotesThe whole machineThe capstone: how the lake, the Parts Catalog, the Workshop, the Studio and ProPre fit together as one machine, told as a brass automaton coming to life.
  3. 03Build NotesOne lake, four seasonsA case study of the main site, V2: one hand-built lake where every tab is a season, with night, weather, wildlife, a hidden beach and links that remember it all.
  4. 04Build NotesA drawer for every partA case study of the Parts Catalog: 60 pieces of the lake scene, each running live on its own card, with 15 rigged origami creatures and a deep-sea header.
  5. 05Build NotesTeaching the bench new partsA case study of the Workshop: a prompt builder for new parts and a tracer that turns a picture into the scene's origami format in under a second.
  6. 06Build NotesA river through the StudioA case study of the Studio's header: a glowing river with three liquids, day and night, two small toggles, 36 clips that hand off cleanly, and a liquid that now runs through the whole page.