Habitus
Cheap marketplace finds, held to a hundred at a time.
- Year
- 2026
- Made for
- Astro, Cloudflare Pages
- State
- in progress
A hundred objects, hard capped. For something new to get in, something already there has to go.
Habitus pulls listings off the cheap end of the internet and scores them against a taste document I keep amending, rather than rules I coded once and forgot. Every pick and every kill is filed with the reason I gave for it, and those reasons become the examples the next scoring pass reads. Arguing with it is how it learns.
The store is never named anywhere on the site. What is being sold is the object, not the place it came from.
How to use it
Open it and scroll. Habitus is a gallery, not software you run.
While building it
One more of those quick ideas that I don't want turning into a multi-day side thing but they do. I was thinking, "hey what if there was one of those curated design sites, but for Temu?" Not my worst idea, I guess.
Read the journal
POiO
in progressA chicken recipe assistant that is turning into a countertop bird.
Islands
shippedAnother macOS window manager. This one accordions.
dab
shippedTurn any patch of your screen into pixel art.
Balancer
shippedA personal trainer for micro-breaks.
Sona
conceptA mechanical keyboard with an instrument living inside it.
toss
in progressFlick a ball off your screen. It lands on a friend's Mac.
Darkroom
conceptA cube that develops your photos by imagining them.
Branding Oracle
in progressA brand engine a designer drives and a client never sees.
vaiven
shippedA Canvas engine where every animation is one JSON config.
pinrip
Pull full-resolution originals out of any Pinterest page.
tuckie
Hides menu bar icons and stays at 16 MB.
Long Exposure
One poem, rewritten by a different machine each time, for as long as I keep it going.
The Claude Key
Press F13. Claude Code opens in a new terminal, ready to type.
music scout
Reads music blogs every morning and fills a playlist.
Short Story
Fiction built on two stories at once, after Piglia.
Socratic Claude
A dialogue that asks three questions and then stops.
manita
Makes the pointing hand your system-wide cursor.
keylock
Lets me set the Corne on top of the MacBook without typing everything twice.
Halo
Talks to a lamp one pixel at a time.
Canon
Keeps the approved design decisions somewhere the model can read them.
tint
Every project split gets its own brand color in the terminal.
devtools
Answers which dev servers are running and where they came from.
Machine Report
A Turbo Vision system readout, every time a terminal opens.
Vedic Teacher
Asks who is asking, and will not answer it for you.