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This section is dedicated to exploring what AI can help us create — through experiments, samples and personal projects.
We do not believe that AI will simply replace people. Used wisely, it can help us explore ideas, create things we could not easily create before, and approach unfamiliar technologies from a different angle.
Our experience with technology has taught us that new tools and new ways of working will always emerge. The important thing is not to be held back by what we do not yet understand, or simply by fear of the unknown. We need to adapt, experiment, implement what is useful, and keep improving.
The projects in this section are not necessarily products or services. They are examples of what becomes possible when we combine our existing skills with new tools — sometimes even in areas where we would not traditionally have the required technical expertise.
And sometimes, we simply build something because it is fun to see whether it can be done.
The starting point
The starting point
30 years ago, I programmed the Commodore 64 in BASIC.
Not assembly language, not advanced graphics programming — just the things available to me at the time: characters, sprites, POKEs and BASIC.
The idea
The idea
I wondered whether I could take a photograph of myself and recreate it using the same basic building blocks I used back then.
Why I never did it back then
Why I never did it back then
Technically, it was possible. Practically, it was a nightmare.
The image would first have to be mapped out manually on graph paper, then translated into a limited set of characters and sprites, and finally assembled programmatically. With only 256 available characters and a handful of sprites to work with, creating a detailed image this way would have been an enormous amount of work.
What AI changed
What AI changed
AI did not give me a new C64 skillset.
It allowed me to use the skillset I already had in a way that would have been impractical 34 years ago.
What is this?
What is this?
ChatDiary is a chat window with a suspiciously good memory.
You talk to a Gemini model using your own API key, while ChatDiary quietly keeps the receipts: what you asked, what came back, which settings were active, how long it took, and how many tokens it managed to consume along the way.
Everything is saved as plain files in a folder on your own computer. No magic cloud. No mysterious database. No “trust us, your data is safe” button.
You organise it yourself. Put conversations into projects, give each project its own standing instructions, clone a project when you want a clean start, archive it when you want to keep a snapshot, and move it somewhere else when you feel like it.
There is no server, no account, and no cloud belonging to us.
One file is the program.
One folder is your data.
The rest is between you and Gemini.
The small print, in normal-sized print:
This is an experimental build. It works on our machine. It may work on yours. If it doesn't, that's called research.
You bring your own API key, your own quota, and preferably a little patience.
And if it eats your afternoon, don't worry.
That part is working exactly as designed.
Gridrunner (Coming Soon)
Gridrunner (Coming Soon)
Personal project of old style RPG... + Editor...
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