About

Things I built to see if they could be built.

Each file here started as a question: could a browser hold the Giza plateau in five eras, every satellite in orbit, a working copy of the Antikythera mechanism, an ecosystem that keeps itself alive? I built them with Claude Code, one file at a time, and kept each one with its sources, its status and the models that wrote it.

Samizdat was the practice of copying a text by hand and passing it on, outside the official presses. These are self-published in the same spirit: the source is open where it can be, and where it cannot be, the file says so.

How to read a file

Every file has a number, given in the order the files were opened. No. 001 is the oldest, and a number never changes. A filled green square means the file is issued at v1.0. A red one means it is still being built. An empty square is a prototype.

"Built with" names the Claude models that wrote at least a tenth of a file's commits, counted from its git history. "What is real" lists the data and the models a file stands on, with who made them and under what licence.

Copy it, pass it on

The public sources are on GitHub under Samizdat Publications. Take what is useful.