Speck

small finished things

Est. 2026Alberta, Canada9 specimens

Some things are worth building at the size they want to be. A game you finish on the bus. A tool that does the one annoying thing you keep doing by hand. Open a compartment and it works.

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Game

Xalo

Orbital Command

Drag to fling satellites off a planet and fight Newton for a stable orbit. Real F = GM/r², no fudging.

2026One sitting
Game

The Long Way to Moose Jaw

an endless prairie drive

Point a half-ton west and try to reach Aunt Carol's perogy supper before the gas runs out. The hill on the horizon never gets closer.

2026A long drive
Game

Goose Migration

lead the flock south

Honk at stragglers until they join up, then hold a V all the way south. Good formation saves stamina; hawks undo it.

2026Five legs
Tool

Regex

read what you actually wrote

Paste a pattern and it explains itself token by token, with live highlighting and a card for every match.

2026one paste
Tool

Colour

contrast without the argument

Check a pair for contrast ratio, get the accessible palette, and find out which text colour actually belongs on that background.

2026one check
Tool

Network

subnets, worked out

CIDR maths without the mental arithmetic: ranges, masks, and whether that address is really inside that block.

2026one subnet
Toy

Cellular

all 256 rules

Every elementary cellular automaton, with each complexity measurement sitting beside the pixels that produced it. Rule 30 and rule 110 are right there.

2026An afternoon
Toy

Dice

what 4d6 drop lowest really looks like

Build a roll and watch the distribution appear. Expected value, spread, and the long tail nobody plans for.

2026A few rolls
Toy

Encoders

a synth you can see

Knobs, patch points, and an oscilloscope that answers back. Turn something and hear what it did.

2026Until you notice the time
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