Keeping Pith Desk Small with RustDesk and i3

A remote access experiment grew into plans for terminals, browser control, file transfer, and previews inside Pith Desk. RustDesk and an i3 desktop gave me a way to use those tools together while keeping the application smaller.

October 20, 2026 · 7 min · 1373 words · Jack Yu

Constrained UI Components for AI Assembly and Human Review

Extracting Pith UI taught me to constrain visual decisions at the component boundary, preserve existing behavior in executable assemblies, and give AI and human reviewers the same catalog.

October 20, 2026 · 9 min · 1800 words · Jack Yu

From One-Time Porting to Incremental Updates: Portsmith Go and Pith

Pith now powers Portsmith Go, the migration tool used to update Pith from upstream Pi. Two accepted increments show how source ownership, frozen tests, and recovery turn a first port into a maintenance workflow.

October 14, 2026 · 9 min · 1819 words · Jack Yu

Porting Pi to Go: Building Portsmith and Pith

A field report on using Pi and DeepSeek to migrate selected Pi components to Go: 26 accepted steps, three module commits, and the evidence behind the result.

September 29, 2026 · 8 min · 1600 words · Jack Yu

driftloop: Browser Generative Music Without a Backend

driftloop is a pure-frontend generative music app that composes and synthesizes continuous multi-instrument background music in the browser.

June 11, 2026 · 2 min · 332 words · Jack Yu

AeroPlay: A Flight-Mode Game Hub

AeroPlay is a mobile-first offline game hub designed to work in airplane mode with local assets and saved progress.

June 3, 2026 · 2 min · 304 words · Jack Yu

Bedrock Lab: A Behavior Pack as a Small Rules Sandbox

Bedrock Lab is a small Minecraft Bedrock behavior pack for testing gameplay rule changes without experimental toggles.

June 2, 2026 · 2 min · 304 words · Jack Yu

cta-guard: Risk Controls Before Trading Logic

cta-guard is a private trading-system project where the most publishable lesson is risk control, not strategy details.

May 31, 2026 · 2 min · 326 words · Jack Yu

TapSurge: An iPad Tap-Speed Tool Built for Competition Use

TapSurge is an offline-first iPad tap-speed test that records multi-finger input with audit-friendly timing.

May 24, 2026 · 2 min · 369 words · Jack Yu

Minifish Lab Projects

A living map of the small systems, tools, experiments, and prototypes I keep under Minifish Lab.

May 24, 2026 · 4 min · 665 words · Jack Yu