• THIS THURSDAY · new Short: Torture Dance — JoJo menacing edit · 17:00 BST
  • FRIDAY · The Passage — an AI fight scene built with Seedance · 17:00 BST
  • LIVE · 92 devlog entries · shipping in public
  • NOW LEARNING · agentic AI architecture, MDX, Claude Code workflows
  • RECENTLY · shipped five iOS features in a single PR
  • OPEN FOR · freelance builds — retail, hospitality, web
  • BUILDING IN PUBLIC · live commits documented · MIT / CC-BY-SA
  • THIS THURSDAY · new Short: Torture Dance — JoJo menacing edit · 17:00 BST
  • FRIDAY · The Passage — an AI fight scene built with Seedance · 17:00 BST
  • LIVE · 92 devlog entries · shipping in public
  • NOW LEARNING · agentic AI architecture, MDX, Claude Code workflows
  • RECENTLY · shipped five iOS features in a single PR
  • OPEN FOR · freelance builds — retail, hospitality, web
  • BUILDING IN PUBLIC · live commits documented · MIT / CC-BY-SA
Captain Random// build · create · ship · collaborate
  • Work▾
    Software development5 systemsWeb development5 buildsTooling6 tools
    Ways of working
    Security by designBuild in public
  • Writing
  • Learning▾
    All courses9 liveThe Map77 chapters
    Tracks
    Ship & Run It on Shared Hosting4 coursesWrite in Public2 coursesCreative Coding2 courses
  • Now
  • Creative▾
    Creative hubMusicVideos2 premieresSeries
  • About
YouTubeLet's build →
  • Work
    • Software development5 systems
    • Web development5 builds
    • Tooling6 tools
    • Security by design
    • Build in public
  • Writing
  • Learning
    • The Map77 chapters
    • Ship & Run It on Shared Hosting4 courses
    • Write in Public2 courses
    • Creative Coding2 courses
  • Now
  • Creative
    • Music
    • Videos2 premieres
    • Series
  • About
YouTubeLet's build →
Home/Writing/Design

Posts on Design.

3 posts tagged "Design".

3 postsAll writing →
T
Build LogPrivacy
#01
2026-07-265 min read

The privacy work isn't on the /privacy/ page

The /privacy/ page went live in June and covers what it covers. The actual privacy work on this site happened in a data-locality choice, a brand-separation rule, and a username leak in published MDX. Only one of the three announced itself.

Read post→
T
VisualiserAudio-Reactive
#02
2026-07-055 min read

The spring panorama has winter underneath it: audio-driven temporal layering

Two panoramas, identical dimensions, stacked front-to-back. The spring layer carries a radial cutout whose radius is driven by bass amplitude. When bass hits, winter shows through. The background is not a backdrop — it is a temporal device indexed to audio rather than time.

Read post→
2
Build LogEditorial
#03
2026-06-206 min read

25 PRs, a rescued BoE fetcher, and a composer taught restraint: the editorial pipeline ships

PR #53 merged on 12 June: the first article through the full X.8 grounded editorial pipeline. The morning sweep showed three gaps that had been quietly open — a stale PR that would have deleted the BoE rates fetcher, a composer inferring beyond its sources, and a design sprint that completed the day after. All three closed within 72 hours.

Read post→
Captain Random
// build · create · ship · collaborate

UK-based developer and creative technologist. 20+ years building for the web. 23+ years in retail and hospitality operations and leadership. Now architecting production systems with agentic AI tools and workflows — shared in public.

GitHub @CaptainRandom00X @CaptainRandom00YouTube @captainrandom00

Work

  • All projects

Writing

  • All posts
  • Agentic AI
  • Retail & Hospitality

Explore

  • Retail knowledge base
  • Security by design
  • Creative AI
  • AI News
  • Learning
  • Now page

Reach me

  • hello@captainrandom.co.uk
  • Contact page
  • Privacy policy
© 2026 Captain Random · captainrandom.co.uk · Built in public乱 — UNPREDICTABLY EFFECTIVE.