Archive - Smoke Some Paint

Turning AI-generated brand marks into production SVGs

For the cost of about an hour of focused work and a couple of dollars in API spend, the pipeline produces a working brand-mark family.

May 19 • Cully Wakelin

We are moving towards software-on-demand

We have stepped into a world, where information tools can, will, and should be built on-demand for the circumstances and situations at hand.

May 8 • Cully Wakelin

April 2026

I built an AI newspaper that runs itself every morning

I did it to learn about the community my kids play sports in. And It's working!

Apr 13 • Cully Wakelin

A gap in Alberta's open data

Production data on every well in the province is free and public. Ownership data on the same wells is structurally not.

Apr 12 • Cully Wakelin

Is suspension a primitive or a trick?

Resonate is addressing the problem of suspension by pinning the answer to a protocol instead of a runtime.

Apr 8 • Cully Wakelin

Vibe coding with 15 years of context

The workspace is the brain. Claude is the hands.

Apr 7 • Cully Wakelin

May 2025

The Wisdom Paradox

To be human is to wrestle with this paradox, again and again.

May 8, 2025 • Cully Wakelin

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